Sr Product Manager

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus oninnovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of ourcustomers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where eachindividuals can thrive.**Position Summary**The Product Management team in F5 Digital is responsible for creating and driving the strategy for how we serve vital functions within F5, such as sales, marketing, finance, legal and HR. The mission of Digital is to create a more responsive, nimble and agile F5, supporting internal and external customer needs.As Product Manager, you will bring both thought leadership for your area and stakeholder management skills. You will work collaboratively, driving strategic alignment across the organization, and have the ability to communicate effectively to both internal and external audiences. You will develop roadmaps and requirements using a balance of future vision, near-term opportunities, user requirements, business insight, and management of day-to-day product issues. The position is dynamic, and you should be comfortable with ambiguity, a fast-pace and frequent context switching. Areas of assignment are flexible to accommodate evolving business needs.**What** **You’ll** **Do*** Define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for F5 Order to Cash tea. Align our product goals with F5’s broader business objectives. Ensure the platform delivers exceptional user experiences, scalability, and reliability. Serve as subject matter expert for SaaS, perpetual and cloud-based solutions.* Craft a coherent, plan for our Order to Cash business process based on user discovery, data and financial analysis, stakeholder discussions, F5 business dynamics and industry trends* Evangelize and gain alignment on your vision and road map with senior stakeholders across the company – up to and including the EVP level – and manage their expectations with clear, consistent communication* Collaboration with business stakeholders building strategies with clarity and providing innovative ideas and solutions to core business and customer needs* Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and feature kickoffs, fostering collaboration across engineering, program management and business teams to deliver frequent releases.* Rally portfolio management and delivery teams around clear, stable priorities focused on product goals and user needs, driving timely tradeoff decisions when needed* Build business cases for requested initiatives, articulating quantifiable business outcomes and return on investment and success metrics* Focus your team’s efforts on driving concrete business benefit – ensuring user experience is solid, driving successful adoption of solutions with end users, and tracking usage and performance to gauge business impact* Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.* Performs other related duties as assigned.The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.**What** **You’ll** **Bring*** Background in Product Offerings for SaaS, Term Subscriptions and Perpetual HW/SW solutions* Strong background working on Oracle EBS CRM/ERP modules – Oracle EBS Order Management & Account receivables* Strong background working on Oracle Fusion CRM/ERP modules – Oracle Fusion Subscription management & Revenue Management* Experience leading at least 2 end to end oracle Order to Cash implementation programs* Extensive experience as a product manager in an Agile development environment* Proven ability to execute upon a coherent product strategy for a complex or highly technical functional area* Track record of crafting and driving product results, ideally for products with high visibility and/or significant financial impact* Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, prioritize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development* Strong data orientation with proven track record of digging deep into data and using it to drive decisions* Strong financial acumen, including ability to structure basic business cases* Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technology and business opportunities clearly* Proven ability to construct professional and productive relationships, especially with more senior colleagues, even when there’s a need to deliver tough messages* Excellent leadership, negotiation & persuasion skills* Ability to learn our products quickly**Qualifications*** 6+ years of experience in Agile software product management, preferably on solutions supporting sales, finance, or other internal support functions* 8+ years of experience working with a diverse set of partners such as sales, engineering, legal, customer success, data science, marketing etc.* Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or related field, MBA a plusF5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.The annual base pay for this position is: $149,600.00 - $224,400.00*F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.**You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link:**. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.***Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or** **@myworkday.com)****.****Equal Employment Opportunity**It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. 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