Principal Product Manager (REMOTE)

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Principal Product Manager – Multi-Cloud Network Security and Network Management

FTE Remote

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

F5, has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5 integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations and management components.

Job Summary:

Responsible for guiding, augmenting and extending the reach of F5’s Multi-Cloud Network Security and Multi-Cloud Network Management offerings. The role requires an individual with strong leadership, partnering and analytical abilities, who can build a shared vision for F5’s multi-cloud networking and security direction; deliver cloud network security and cloud network management products on top of the F5’s VoltMesh and VoltStack SaaS platform; help to build products from existing ideas; and help to develop new insights based on industry experience and contact with customers, prospects and partners.

Responsibility:

• Own all product management end-to-end of VoltMesh Multi-Cloud Network Security and Multi-Cloud Network Management offerings, reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Product Management in Volterra in SPG
• Extend VoltMesh capabilities to include Service Insertion and Service Chaining enabling integration 3rd party Load balancers, Firewalls
• Extend VoltMesh capabilities in Multi-Cloud Networking Management including developing from the ground up Multi-Cloud Networking Observability, Monitoring and Notifications
• Become the subject matter expert in understanding customers’ Day-2 Operational needs around Multi-Cloud Networking such as alerting, automation, integrations with Service Ticketing and logging systems. Leverage this expertise to drive VoltMesh product roadmap enhancing customers’ day-2 operational journey on Volterra.
• Become the subject matter expert in how customers use public Cloud’s Transit gateway product, understand their needs, map them to available capabilities and identify gaps. Leverage this expertise to drive VoltMesh’s product roadmap to enhance customer’s adoption of multi-cloud networking and security technologies and public cloud transit gateway.
• Manage the product development process from inception to product delivery. Actively reach out to customers to understand their needs in multi-cloud. Distil the needs into product requirements and drive delivery of product execution with engineering.
• Manage the product launch process delivering technical decision maker and business decision maker content, envision a solution demo of new capabilities, price the new capabilities, and drive sales enablement efforts including making product orderable on the Saas platform.
• Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners
• Define, communicate, plan and execute the multi-cloud networking and security vision and strategy; prioritizing, determining resource and allocation needs, strategic development and product strategy and delivering results to senior management. Align that vision with the overall company goals, and lead the effort to create product positioning and messaging across the security domain.
• Work with key decision makers in marketing and sales to ensure that the product is correctly communicated to the market

Requirements:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; MBA desirable
• At least 3 years of experience in product management in the cloud networking and security industry
• At least 5 years’ of Networking and Security product management.
• Outstanding listener, great presenter, terrific interpersonal and communication skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions
• Strong awareness of technology trends and potential influence on F5’s business
• Strong teaming skills: positive teammate, good team builder, experience to bring together diverse views.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically
• Ability to lead in a constantly evolving environment, manage multiple priorities and ambiguity
• Ability to converse with technical and business personnel fluently
• Experience developing relationships with suppliers and co-marketing partners highly desirable
• Demonstrated ability to meet or beat assigned targets and delivery dates consistently

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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.

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