Senior Product Manager

F5; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 162,800 - 244,200; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Senior Product Manager to bridge AI platforms with core business functions. You will partner with sales, marketing, and customer success to translate needs into prioritized AI use cases and drive adoption of agentic workflows across the enterprise.

The role requires 6+ years in product management, a solid grasp of generative AI, and strong stakeholder management. You will guide backlog priorities and collaborate with engineering to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience in internal tools, enterprise software, or digital transformation.
• Strong understanding of generative AI concepts and practical business operations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and cross-functional influence.
• Experience in Agile environments and backlog management.
• Excellent communication translating AI concepts to business value.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and other functions to understand core challenges.
• Translate needs into prioritized AI-based use cases and manage the backlog.
• Collaborate with engineering and AI platform teams to deliver iterative solutions.
• Drive adoption of AI tools and workflows with enablement teams.
• Ensure governance, security, and cost management in AI implementations.

Skills

Product Management

Internal tools

Digital transformation

Generative AI

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Job description

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.

Job Description: Senior Product Manager

Role Summary

F5 Digital is building the enterprise AI muscle that will power the next generation of intelligent, secure, and scalable internal platforms. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to act as the primary bridge between our AI platforms and our core business functions.

This role will partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and other business units to implement F5's 5-pillar AI transformation strategy. The Senior PM will translate function-specific needs into prioritized agentic use cases and drive measurable AI adoption across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate combines strong product management fundamentals with excellent stakeholder management, a deep understanding of business operations, and the ability to drive measurable outcomes through AI transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Strategy

• Partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and other business functions to understand their core challenges and workflows.
• Implement and drive F5's AI transformation strategy within these specific business units.
• Act as the trusted advisor for business leaders on how AI can accelerate their specific organizational goals.

Product Ownership & Use Case Translation

• Translate function-specific business needs into clearly defined, prioritized agentic use cases.
• Own the backlog for business-facing AI solutions, balancing impact with technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with engineering and the core AI platform teams to deliver these solutions iteratively.

Adoption & Change Management

• Drive measurable adoption of AI tools and agentic workflows across the enterprise.
• Partner with Enablement teams to create training, documentation, and rollout plans tailored to specific business functions.

Governance & Responsible AI

• Ensure business-specific AI solutions adhere to enterprise governance, security, and cost-management standards.
• Help business units navigate the AI Innovation Review process for new tool requests.

Metrics & Business Impact

• Define and track KPIs tied to functional AI adoption, usage, and measurable business value (e.g., time saved, revenue influenced).
• Partner with stakeholders to baseline and quantify ROI for AI-enabled workflows within their departments.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, preferably focusing on internal tools, enterprise software, or digital transformation.
• Strong understanding of generative AI concepts and how they apply to practical business operations (Sales, Marketing, CS).
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Proven ability to operate in Agile environments, manage backlogs, and deliver iterative value.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical AI concepts into business value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working directly with GTM (Go-to-Market) teams like Sales or Customer Success.
• Understanding of no-code / low-code automation platforms and workflow tools.
• Experience quantifying ROI for internal productivity tools.

What Success Looks Like

• Successfully execute the 5-pillar AI transformation strategy across key business functions.
• Launch prioritized agentic use cases that solve real, function-specific problems.
• Drive measurable week-over-week growth in AI tool adoption within partnered business units.
• Quantify and report on the ROI and business impact of deployed AI workflows.

Why Join F5 Digital?

This is an opportunity to help shape F5’s enterprise AI foundation and build a platform that empowers every team to innovate responsibly with AI. You will work at the intersection of AI strategy, platform engineering, governance, and real-world business impact—defining how F5 scales intelligent automation across the company.

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: $162,800.00 - $244,200.00

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 [e-mail].