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Technical Program Manager

Role Summary

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) leads complex cross-functional and often cross-organizational engineering programs from conception through delivery. This role partners closely with engineering product management QA security operations/SRE and executive stakeholders to define program strategy drive alignment manage execution and ensure measurable outcomes.

This is a role for TPMs who operate with high autonomy influence without authority and bring strong technical judgment execution rigor and executive-ready communication. TPMs are expected to proactively identify risks and systemic issues drive decision-making and continuously improve processes that scale program delivery.

Responsibilities

Program Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery for complex technical programs defining scope milestones success metrics and execution approach across multiple teams.
• Drive cross-team planning (roadmaps release plans cutovers) dependency management and tradeoff decisions to meet quality timeline and business objectives.
• Establish operating rhythm and governance (cadence decision logs escalation paths) to keep stakeholders aligned and unblocked.
• Anticipate and resolve ambiguity by driving clear technical and program decisions including prioritization resourcing and sequencing.
• Coach and mentor junior TPMs and project coordinators; raise the bar on planning artifacts reporting and execution discipline.

Cross-Functional & Cross-Org Alignment

• Partner with engineering product QA security SRE/operations support and go-to-market stakeholders to align on requirements constraints and launch readiness.
• Lead stakeholder alignment forums ensuring decisions are made at the right level with clear owners timelines and follow-through.
• Represent program health to leadership with crisp narratives on progress tradeoffs risks and asks.

Data Reporting & Metrics

• Define and instrument program metrics and mechanisms (OKRs/KPIs quality and reliability signals delivery predictability) to measure outcomes and drive accountability.
• Develop and deliver executive-ready status reporting (dashboards QBR/SteerCo updates) that highlights risks decisions needed and customer/business impact.
• Use data to identify trends unblock teams and recommend corrective actions to improve delivery and operational excellence.

Risk & Issue Management

• Own RAID management for assigned programs ensuring risks issues assumptions and dependencies are actively mitigated with measurable actions and accountable owners.
• Proactively surface delivery quality and security risks early; drive cross-team mitigation plans and contingency options.
• Manage escalations end-to-end including framing the decision presenting options and tradeoffs and driving closure with stakeholders.

Process & Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement program mechanisms that scale execution (intake and prioritization planning templates release readiness change management post-launch reviews).
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives based on retrospective insights operational data and stakeholder feedback.
• Standardize and improve documentation and tooling (Jira/Smartsheet/Confluence) to increase visibility reduce churn and improve predictability.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system design (APIs distributed systems cloud infrastructure reliability and security concepts).
• Ability to engage deeply with technical teams: drive requirements clarity evaluate solution options and identify technical risks and non-obvious dependencies.
• Proficiency with program tooling and documentation practices (Jira/Confluence Smartsheet/Excel dashboards decision logs RAID management).
• Data fluency: ability to define metrics interpret trends and use quantitative and qualitative signals to drive program decisions.

Program & Project Management Skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team programs through the full lifecycle: discovery planning execution launch and post-launch learning.
• Expertise in building integrated plans (milestones dependencies resourcing) managing critical paths and driving tradeoffs to achieve outcomes.
• Strong risk management and escalation leadership; able to frame decisions propose options and drive closure.
• Experience establishing program mechanisms and improving processes across teams (operating rhythms readiness criteria retrospectives governance).

Communication & Collaboration Skills

• Executive-ready communication: can translate complex technical and program realities into clear narratives decisions and asks.
• Influence without authority across engineering and product leaders; strong facilitation and conflict-resolution skills.
• High ownership and judgment in ambiguous environments; proactive in identifying gaps and driving clarity.
• Mentorship mindset and ability to raise execution standards across teams.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Experience leading platform infrastructure security or large-scale product programs with multiple engineering teams and multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Experience driving launches with operational readiness incident response preparation and post-launch operational excellence mechanisms.
• Background in cloud networking DevOps reliability engineering or cybersecurity.
• Comfort partnering with architecture/technical leadership on requirements and roadmap strategy.
• Certifications (optional): PMP PgMP SAFe Scrum (CSM/PSM) AWS/Azure/GCP fundamentals or security certifications (e.g. Security).

Certifications are not required but can be helpful depending on the program domain and stakeholder needs.

Behavioral Expectations

• Strategic Ownership: Sets direction defines success and drives outcomes across teams and stakeholders.
• Technical Judgment: Understands system constraints well enough to challenge assumptions identify risks and drive pragmatic decisions.
• Influence: Builds alignment navigates conflict and drives decisions through strong relationships and credibility.
• Execution Excellence: Operates with rigor anticipates issues and ensures commitments are met with high quality.
• Mentorship: Elevates program management capability across the org through coaching templates and mechanisms.

Performance Indicators (How Success Will Be Measured)

• Consistent delivery of complex programs with predictable execution clear critical paths and high-quality outcomes.
• Stakeholder confidence and alignment demonstrated through timely decisions reduced ambiguity and effective escalation management.
• Measurable improvements in program health and business/customer outcomes (e.g. reliability adoption time-to-market operational readiness).
• Proactive risk identification and mitigation that prevents or minimizes impact to delivery quality or security.
• Creation of scalable mechanisms (process tooling templates) that improve execution effectiveness across teams beyond a single program.

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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