UX Manager

Dublin - Ireland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours 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.

TheF5 AI Securityteam is looking for aUX managerwho thrives in a fast-paced environment solving emergent problems in new technical spaces. This is aplayer-coachrole. You will own the most complex design challenges while acting as the technical lead for two other designerssharpening their skills critiquing their logic and ensuring the team delivers consistent implementable and high-quality work.Youllreport to the senior manager for product management and act as a strategic partner and expert.

Key management responsibilities

Talent development:Manage and mentor a small team of product designers embedded on two product teams. Conduct regular 1:1s provide actionable design critiques and create career growth plans that align with both their goals and F5s needs.

Conduct rigorous design reviews.Move the team beyond making it look good to making it work logically. Push designers to think through edge cases technical constraints and complex user flows while also encouraging them to push the creative boundaries and stretch beyond the safe option.

Research & Validation:Build a regular cadence of user feedback and usability testing. Coach the team on how to gather and analyze insights and turn those into well-scoped improvements for the product.

UX strategy & process:Define ways of working. Establish design rituals (ideation critiques research cycles) and common deliverables.

Key design responsibilities

Lead by example:Take the lead on the most complex ambiguous architectural challenges within the AI Security portfolio (e.g. complex workflows enterprise readiness features projects requiring strong cross-functional design leadership).

Technical intuition:Work closely with data science and engineering peers to understand the under the hood mechanics of our AItoolsso the design accurately reflects what the technology can do.

System stewardship:Own the evolution of our Figma design system and our design standards. Ensure it scales across the AI security suite tomaintainconsistency accessibility and high-quality heuristics.

Skills & Competencies

Enterprisedesign mastery:Deepexpertisein simplifying hard technical problems (cybersecurity AI IR or infrastructure).

Leadership & influence:Ability tomanage upandacross. You can justify design decisions to technical stakeholders in terms of business value and risk mitigation.

Design operations:Proficiencyin building a scalable design-to-development pipeline.You know how to use tools like Figma and Jira to ensure engineering never has to guess what a finished design looks like.

Radical candor:A management style that prioritizes clear honest feedback to help designers improve their craft rapidly.

Design standards:You have a high standard for what good looks like in enterpriseSaaSand you know how to install that standard in your team.

Technical translator:You can talk to a data scientist about an agentic workflow and turn that conversation into a streamlined user flow.

Practical & pragmatic:You understand that done is better than perfect.You know when to use a design pattern and when to invent something new.

Mentor mindset:You enjoy seeing other designers grow. You measure your success by how much more autonomous and senior your team becomes under your guidance.

Qualifications

Experience:8 years of UX/Product design experience with at least 2 years in a formal management or Lead role (mentoring junior/mid-level designers).

Track Record:A portfoliodemonstratingshipped enterprise SaaS products where you led the design of complex end-to-end workflows.

Technical Fluency:Youdontneed to code but you must understand technical constraints (APIs data latency front-end frameworks)soyour team builds implementable designs.

Education:Degree in HCI Design or equivalent experience.

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Key management responsibilities

Talent development:Manage and mentor a small team of product designers embedded on two product teams. Conduct regular 1:1s provide actionable design critiques and create career growth plans that align with both their goals and F5s needs.

Conduct rigorous design reviews.Move the team beyond making it look good to making it work logically. Push designers to think through edge cases technical constraints and complex user flows while also encouraging them to push the creative boundaries and stretch beyond the safe option.

Research & Validation:Build a regular cadence of user feedback and usability testing. Coach the team on how to gather and analyze insights and turn those into well-scoped improvements for the product.

UX strategy & process:Define ways of working. Establish design rituals (ideation critiques research cycles) and common deliverables.

Key design responsibilities

Lead by example:Take the lead on the most complex ambiguous architectural challenges within the AI Security portfolio (e.g. complex workflows enterprise readiness features projects requiring strong cross-functional design leadership).

Technical intuition:Work closely with data science and engineering peers to understand the under the hood mechanics of our AItoolsso the design accurately reflects what the technology can do.

System stewardship:Own the evolution of our Figma design system and our design standards. Ensure it scales across the AI security suite tomaintainconsistency accessibility and high-quality heuristics.

Skills & Competencies

Enterprisedesign mastery:Deepexpertisein simplifying hard technical problems (cybersecurity AI IR or infrastructure).

Leadership & influence:Ability tomanage upandacross. You can justify design decisions to technical stakeholders in terms of business value and risk mitigation.

Design operations:Proficiencyin building a scalable design-to-development pipeline.You know how to use tools like Figma and Jira to ensure engineering never has to guess what a finished design looks like.

Radical candor:A management style that prioritizes clear honest feedback to help designers improve their craft rapidly.

Design standards:You have a high standard for what good looks like in enterpriseSaaSand you know how to install that standard in your team.

Technical translator:You can talk to a data scientist about an agentic workflow and turn that conversation into a streamlined user flow.

Practical & pragmatic:You understand that done is better than perfect.You know when to use a design pattern and when to invent something new.

Mentor mindset:You enjoy seeing other designers grow. You measure your success by how much more autonomous and senior your team becomes under your guidance.

Qualifications

Experience:8 years of UX/Product design experience with at least 2 years in a formal management or Lead role (mentoring junior/mid-level designers).

Track Record:A portfoliodemonstratingshipped enterprise SaaS products where you led the design of complex end-to-end workflows.

Technical Fluency:Youdontneed to code but you must understand technical constraints (APIs data latency front-end frameworks)soyour team builds implementable designs.