Sr Corporate Counsel

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.

Senior Corporate Counsel Corporate Governance M&A & Assistant Board Secretary

Location: Seattle WA / San Francisco Bay Area CA (Hybrid)

Position Summary
As Senior Corporate Counsel you will serve as a key strategic partner driving F5s corporate governance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets priorities. Working in close partnership with the F5 General Counsel you will act as a trusted advisor on high stakes matters and serve as the Assistant Secretary to the Board of Directors.

This role sits at the absolute center of F5s strategic growth. You will have a unique opportunity to shape how a global public company executes complex strategic transactions capital allocation and board governance during a period of dynamic technological evolution as F5 accelerates enterprise AI workload security and multi-cloud delivery.

Operating in a fast-paced highly collaborative environment you will have significant exposure and visibility to executive leadership and the Board of Directors. The Office of the General Counsel at F5 is a trusted proactive partner to the business with a strong voice in decision-making and we are looking for a legal leader who can translate complex legal risks into actionable business strategy.

What Youll Do

Drive Corporate Governance & Securities Excellence

• Board Liaison & Assistant Secretary: Serve as the Assistant Secretary to the Board of Directors. Manage Board and Committee meeting logistics draft high-quality resolutions and minutes and support robust subsidiary governance and entity management.
• General Counsel Partnership: Act as a key sounding board and deputy to the General Counsel on critical corporate governance and public disclosure decisions.
• Lead SEC Reporting: Advise on and draft critical SEC filings (Forms 10-K 10-Q 8-K proxy statements Section 16 filings).
• Strategic Disclosure: Partner tightly with Finance and Investor Relations to navigate the earnings-cycle process ensuring alignment across investor messaging Q&A and public disclosures. Manage the annual meeting and proxy process.

Lead Strategic Transactions (M&A) & Corporate Development

• Deal Strategy & Execution: Act as the lead legal advisor on domestic and cross-border M&A strategic investments and debt financing. Partner directly with Corporate Development to shape deal strategy structure and execution.
• End-to-End Dealmaking: Drive all legal phases of transactions from structuring and due diligence to negotiating definitive agreements (NDAs LOIs purchase agreements) and guiding post-closing integration.
• Commercial Risk Mitigation: Identify and balance legal risks with commercial objectives to enable high-velocity business-focused deal execution.

Champion Operational Excellence & Leadership

• Strategic Counsel: Deliver pragmatic clear advice to senior leaders on complex corporate legal matters entity structuring and capital market activities.
• Scale Operations: Build and refine legal frameworks playbooks and processes to enhance efficiency as F5 continues to grow.
• Manage Resources: Oversee outside counsel effectively driving high-quality and cost-effective legal support.
• Model F5 Values: Uphold F5s Code of Ethics and demonstrate our LeadF5/BeF5 behaviors through integrity accountability and a partnership mindset.

What You Bring

Experience

• J.D. with 812 years of relevant legal experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house at a public company.
• Deep expertise in corporate governance securities law SEC reporting and public company compliance.
• Direct hands-on experience preparing for Board and Committee meetings including drafting corporate resolutions maintaining board minutes and managing governance portals.
• Significant hands-on experience leading M&A transactions strategic investments and corporate development activities.

Knowledge & Skills

• Executive Presence: Proven ability to operate autonomously communicate with high gravitas and interact directly with Board members and C-suite executives.
• Exceptional Judgment: Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in a fast-moving innovative technology environment.
• Technical Excellence: Outstanding drafting negotiation and issue-spotting skills with a deep understanding of deal structures and risk allocation.
• Collaborative Mindset: A proven ability to work seamlessly across cross-functional teams (Finance IR HR Corporate Development).

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior in-house experience at a global public technology company.
• Experience advising on executive compensation equity plans and benefit matters in connection with public disclosures and M&A transactions.
• Familiarity with public company ESG reporting frameworks and emerging disclosure trends.
• Familiarity with international transactions and multi-jurisdictional subsidiary governance.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice law in Washington State or California (or ability to obtain a Washington House Counsel license or California Registered In-House Counsel status).

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 .