Product Manager II
Seattle, WA - USA
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.
F5 Digital is building the enterprise AI muscle that will power the next generation of intelligent secure and scalable internal platforms. We are seeking an AI Product Manager II to own our AI model ecosystem token economy and core agentic platform enablement.
This role is responsible for the end-to-end management of our LLM stack developer-facing AI resources and token economics. Beyond managing costs and access this PM will actively support F5s agentic transformation building the tools documentation and developer experience that make it seamless for engineering teams to build secure and scalable AI agents.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical technically curious and passionate about the rapidly evolving LLM and agentic software frameworks combining product execution with a strong focus on developer enablement and platform economics.
Model Ecosystem Management
Own the lifecycle of AI models within F5 evaluating onboarding and managing access to the latest foundational models (e.g. Gemini OpenAI open-source models).
Partner with platform engineering to ensure seamless secure and observable model integration into our developer environments.
Maintain a deep understanding of the evolving LLM landscape to guide internal development teams toward the right architectures and models.
Agentic Transformation & Developer Enablement
Serve as the product owner for developer-facing tooling SDKs and APIs that facilitate agentic AI development.
Support teams across F5 in transitioning from simple prompt-engineering to complex multi-agent workflows and systems.
Create and curate high-quality developer resources sample code and onboarding paths to accelerate internal agent deployment.
Token Economics & Platform Efficiency
Own the enterprise token economy: track usage patterns forecast capacity and develop optimized pricing and chargeback models.
Define and track key platform metrics including model latency token efficiency usage anomalies and cost-per-query.
Partner with Finance and Cloud FinOps to manage and project enterprise AI spend while scaling capacity.
Governance & Responsible AI
Ensure model access and agent integrations adhere to strict corporate security privacy and data governance policies.
Implement guardrails logging patterns and cost controls to reduce model risk and mitigate shadow AI across developer groups.
Product Ownership & Execution
Manage and prioritize the backlog for model hosting API routing token metrics and developer enablement tools.
Lead Agile sprints and collaborate closely with systems platform and security engineers.
3 years of Product Management experience delivering developer platforms APIs SaaS or technical infrastructure.
Strong working knowledge of generative AI fundamentals (LLMs API integrations context windows token consumption and model routing).
Familiarity with agentic concepts (e.g. tool-calling agent frameworks MCP orchestrators) and a desire to help developers build agents.
Highly analytical with experience monitoring technical metrics usage data cloud spend or subscription economics.
Excellent technical communication skills with the ability to build trust with engineering teams.
Experience with developer platforms technical documentation or internal developer relations (DevRel).
Understanding of cloud governance FinOps or managing usage costs for API platforms.
Hands-on experience with AI development orchestration tools (e.g. LangChain LlamaIndex) or secure hosting platforms (Gemini Azure AI AWS Bedrock).
Maintain a streamlined secure model-onboarding pipeline that keeps F5 at the absolute forefront of AI technology.
Build an intuitive developer experience that reduces the time-to-first-agent for internal engineering teams.
Establish a completely transparent observable and cost-effective token-tracking model.
Mitigate security and cost risk by migrating developers away from unmanaged third-party APIs to the secure internal ecosystem.
This is an opportunity to help shape F5s enterprise AI foundation and build a platform that empowers every team to innovate responsibly with AI. You will work at the intersection of AI strategy platform engineering governance and real-world business impactdefining how F5 scales intelligent automation across the company.
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: $102100.00 - $153100.00F5 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 .
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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.