Sr Product Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Product Manager will drive product management for F5s Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities across modern application environments including containerized and cloud-native architectures built on Nginx Envoy and Kubernetes. This role requires strong technical depth in application security hands-on familiarity with modern proxy and service mesh technologies and working knowledge of AI/agentic application architectures to help shape F5s approach to AI workload protection. The Senior PM will partner closely witharchitecturePMsengineering and go-to-market teams to deliver features that keep F5s WAAP portfolio ahead of an evolving threat and technology landscape.

Primary Responsibilities

Product Delivery

• Own product management activities for WAF capabilities spanning modern app environments (Nginx Envoy Kubernetes/container-based deployments)

• Define and prioritize requirements for extending WAF protections to AI-driven and agentic application workloads

• Contribute to technical marketing content reference architectures solution briefs and customer case studies to drive product awareness

• Support web contentwhitepapers and product demonstrations that drive customer adoptionin partnership with product and technical marketing

• Drive adoption of new WAF and AI workload protection capabilities through customer enablement sales/partner readiness and structured adoption tracking

• Track and report onproduct and business performance bringing data-backed insights to business reviews
  

Customer Engagement & Feedback

• Engage directly with customers to understand their security goals technical constraints and requirements for protecting modern and AI-powered applications

• Translate customer feedback into prioritized backlog items based on business value and technical feasibility
  

MarketAnalysis

• Monitor competitive and market developments inKubernetescloud-native application/API security (WAAP)and AI workload protection

• Validate demand and usage patterns to inform roadmap decisions

• Stay current on developments in cloud-native application delivery service mesh and AI agent architectures
  

Team Collaboration

• Partner with engineering to translate requirements into well-scoped product backlog items and support seamless rollouts

• Build strong working relationships across engineering sales marketing and customer support

• Collaborate with Principal PMs and senior stakeholders on portfolio-level prioritization decisions

• Work with marketing and sales to support smooth product delivery and go-to-market execution

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with networking/cybersecurity products such as firewalls proxies or WAFs and core networking concepts

• Working knowledge of modern app infrastructure: Nginx Envoy Kubernetes and container/cloud-native environments

• Familiarity with AI tooling and agentic application architectures with the ability to reason about associated security risks and workload protection needs

• Understanding of SaaS security services and delivery models
  

Stakeholder Management

• Strong communication negotiation and influencing skills

• Ability to manage expectations across diverse stakeholder groups

• Comfortable operating with a data-driven approach in a fast-paced changing environment

Analytical Skills

• Strong business analysis skills with the ability to translate raw data into clear actionable product and business insights

• Proficient in building metrics dashboards and reports using AI-powered analytics tools in addition to traditional BI platforms (e.g. Excel Tableau Power BI SQL)

• Able to define and track KPIs that measure product adoption usage and business impact

• Working knowledge of data analytics to support decision-making

• Awareness of emerging technology trends and their potential impact onF5sbusiness

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field

• Networking & cybersecurity technical background

• 5 years in technical product management or a related domain

• 3 years of product management experience in cybersecurity

• Exposure to cloud-native application environments (containers Kubernetes service mesh microservices) and/or AI application architectures strongly preferred

• Demonstrated experience building business metrics and reports using AI-powered analytics tools moving beyond traditional BI platforms (e.g. Excel Tableau Power BI SQL) toleverageAI-assisted data analysis and reporting

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