Sr Dir, Insights, Analytics & Data Science

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About the Role
We are seeking a forward-thinkingSenior Director of Insights Analytics & Data Scienceto lead the transformation of enterprise and product telemetry data into actionable insights that enable smarter data-driven decision-making across the organization.

In this senior leadership role you will drive measurable value from data and telemetry across the enterprise by defining and executing a modern analytics strategy. You will align stakeholders scale advanced analytics and data science capabilities and deliver insights that improve product performance operational efficiency customer experience and strategic outcomes.

As the senior leader of Insights Analytics & Data Science you will serve as a trusted advisor to executive and cross-functional leaders ensuring telemetry-driven insights translate into tangible business impact. This role requires a strong blend of strategic vision technical depth and leadership in a complex fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership

• Define and implement the enterprise vision strategy and operating model for Insights Analytics and Data Science with a strong emphasis on telemetry-driven decision-making.
• Build and oversee a cohesive analytics strategy for collecting analyzing and interpreting data from products platforms and enterprise systems.
• Partner with executive and cross-functional leaders (Product Engineering Operations GTM) to embed insights into strategic decisions and operational execution.
• Ensure analytics and data science initiatives directly contribute to measurable business outcomes including product adoption operational excellence and customer engagement.

Data Analytics & Insight Generation

• Lead the design and operationalization of advanced analytics capabilities including real-time monitoring diagnostics trend analysis forecasting and predictive modeling.
• Define and standardize telemetry KPIs and success metrics ensuring alignment and consistency across departments.
• Establishexperimentation andhypothesis-testingframeworks to drive continuous learning and performance improvement.
• Drive the adoption of scalable analytics tools platforms and decision-support systems.

Stakeholder Partnership & Influence

• Act as an enterprise advocate for insights analytics and data scienceacross leadership teams.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear compelling narratives and recommendations tailored to senior stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure telemetry instrumentation and data capture align with business and analytics needs.
• Foster strong collaboration between analytics data engineering and business teams to accelerate impact.

Requirements:
Education & Experience

• 20 years of experience in analytics business intelligence or data science with strong exposure to telemetry data and its application in driving business outcomes.
• Proven senior leadership experience including building and leading high-performing analytics or data science teams.
• Demonstratedability to influence cross-functional leaders at Senior Director VP or executive levels.
• Deepexpertisein telemetry ecosystems (instrumentation real-time analytics user behavior system performance operational metrics).
• Strong experience designing and deploying analytics pipelines dashboards and decision-support systems.
• Bachelors degree in Data Science Analytics Computer Science Business Administration or related field (Masterspreferred).

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.

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.

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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 .