Senior Global Talent Growth & Leadership Programs Lead

F5, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

F5, Inc. seeks a Senior People Growth Program Manager to design, lead, and evolve how we grow, manage, and develop talent worldwide. This strategic leader will build enterprise-wide talent initiatives enhancing employee growth, leadership development, and workforce readiness.

The role partners with business leaders to shape approaches to people growth, succession planning, leadership pipelines, and workforce capabilities to support current priorities and future transformation.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in Talent Development or related HR disciplines.
• Experience designing and managing enterprise talent programs.
• Expertise in performance management, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Exceptional program management—drive clarity, alignment, and execution.
• Skilled facilitation, communication, and storytelling abilities.
• Ability to use data and insights to diagnose needs, measure outcomes, and influence decisions.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• A people-first, inclusive mindset focused on helping employees and leaders thrive.

Responsibilities

• Design, launch, and evolve enterprise-wide manager development programs.
• Build frameworks and processes that enable scalable growth.
• Lead complex, cross-functional projects—owning timelines, communications, stakeholder alignment, and business readiness.
• Facilitate workshops, enablement sessions, and cross-functional working sessions with confidence and credibility.
• Influence at all levels of the organization through data, storytelling, and trusted relationships.
• Serve as a strategic change partner to leaders, ensuring talent initiatives are adopted smoothly and embedded.
• Define success metrics and build dashboards to measure program effectiveness.
• Use data, feedback loops, and experimentation to iterate and improve.
• Monitor external trends to keep talent strategies innovative and competitive.

Skills

Talent Development

Enterprise talent programs

Performance management

Succession planning

Leadership development

Career frameworks

Program management

Facilitation

Communication

Storytelling

Data-driven decision making

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Learning platforms

Talent systems

AI-driven learning

Job description

F5, Inc. seeks a Senior People Growth Program Manager to design, lead, and evolve how we grow, manage, and develop talent worldwide. This strategic leader will build enterprise-wide talent initiatives enhancing employee growth, leadership development, and workforce readiness.

The role partners with business leaders to shape approaches to people growth, succession planning, leadership pipelines, and workforce capabilities to support current priorities and future transformation.