• Job Description

  Req#: RP1033812

  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.

  The Principal T echnical P rogram M anager (TPM) is an authority with excellent interpersonal skills, strength working cross-functionally, with ability to influence and facilitate others to solve business problems and deliver solutions. The position requires a unique blend of business and technical savviness: a big-picture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage and drive work with software engineers. The TPM will be presenting complex technical challenges and resolutions to leadership and other stakeholders.

  This TPM role will lead complex , cross-functional AI/ML initiatives that are foundational to unlock the productivity of f5’s workforce. This individual will drive execution across Digital and business tea ms to accelerate AI adoption and impact across the organization.

  Primary Responsibilities

  • Communicate and collaborate complex technical challenges and resolutions defining cross-functional work to leadership and other partners

  • Negotiate challenging priorities and navigate complex organizational dynamics to establish delivery plans, forecasts, and budgets

  • Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams to solve business problems and deliver solutions

  • Bring the product vision and the technical build together – become the glue between functional teams

  • Develop strong relationships to engage, align, and empower people to deliver

  • Maintain and continue to develop a broad knowledge of business & technology expertise – understand the interconnections between the people, the processes, and the technology solutions

  • Bring an outstanding blend of business and technical savvy: a big-picture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage with software engineers

  • Develop, report, and continually improve performance metrics

  • Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals

  • Demonstrate ownership and autonomy in owned projects and functional areas and drive delivery of high-quality results

  • Build strategies for issue and risk mitigation and contingency planning

  • Lead all aspects of project/program deliverables and adhere to audit/compliance requirements

  • Support the development of high-performing global teams for effectively handling sophisticated and multifaceted programs

  • Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Ability to develop strong working relationships to engage, align, and motivate people to deliver

  • Ability to bridge the gap between Product, Engineering, and Architecture groups to facilitate solutions

  • K nowledge of generative and Agentic AI technologies

  • Knowledge of Enterprise AI tools including GitHub Co-pilot and Microsoft Co-pilot

  • Strong project and program management skills

  • Comfort in technical delivery

  • Understanding of Agile Delivery Methodology

  • Understand the importance of building strong working relationships

  • Effective written and verbal communication

  • Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills Job Description Template

  • Ability to quickly master technical concepts

  • While encouraged to be a facilitator and driver, equally comfortable digging into business requirements or drilling into architecture with development teams to solve complex problems

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field

  • 12 + years’ experience in Technical Program, IT, and/or project management

  • 5+ years of experience in a program manager capacity with experience in automation and AI/ML initiatives

  • Experience with Agile and Waterfall program management methodologies

  • Experience leading a geo-dispersed program team

  • Experience working in a concurrent software development environment as part of a complex build and merge management process

  • Technology product development experience is highly desired

  Physical Demands and Work Environment

  • Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.

  • Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.

  • Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

  • Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.

  • Job may be performed in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.

  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: $187,695.00 - $281,543.00

  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 F5’s 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 F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits . 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 @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com) .

  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 accommodations@f5.com .

• About the company

  F5, Inc. F5 is headquartered in Seattle, Washington in F5 Tower, with an additional 75 offices in 43 countries focusing on account management, global services support, product development, manufacturing, software engineering, and administrative jobs.

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