Sr Director of Corporate Strategy, Operational Excellence

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 239200 - 358800

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Position Summary
The Senior Director will be a key leader within F5s Corporate Strategy team responsible for driving enterprise-wide operational transformation and embedding a culture of continuous improvement. This leader will design and deliver frameworks that streamline processes increase efficiency and strengthen alignment across global functions. By partnering with senior executives and business unit leaders this role ensures that F5s strategic priorities translate into measurable operational impact.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the Operational Excellence Practice within our Corporate Strategy team
Solve complex cross-functional issues to accelerate our top- or bottom-line growth.
Analyze and optimize business processes identify waste and inefficiencies and implement solutions
Partner with senior leaders across business functions (Engineering Product Sales Marketing Finance People & Culture) to align operations with F5s corporate strategy.
Establish performance frameworks KPIs and metrics to monitor execution and measure impact. Partner with Business Operations teams for KPI tracking and implementation.
Build and develop a high-performing team that brings operational rigor analytical insight and change management expertise.
Act as a trusted advisor to executives providing data-driven insights and recommendations that influence decision-making. Key stakeholders are COO CFO and Senior Leadership Team.
Foster a culture of accountability continuous improvement and operational discipline across the organization.

Qualifications:

15 years of progressive leadership experience in corporate strategy operational excellence or management consulting including:
- 3-5 years of strategy consulting experience (i.e. McKinsey BCG Bain)
- 3-5 years of experience working within a tech company
Proven track record of leading enterprise-wide transformation and operational improvement initiatives.
Expertise in cloud operations and financial models including cost levers
Ability to connect strategy to execution and measurable outcomes.
Exceptional leadership influencing and communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with C-level executives.
Demonstrated ability to lead change drive alignment across functions and deliver results.
Bachelors degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

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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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $239200.00 - $358800.00

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 F5s 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 F5s 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .

Required Experience:

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