F5 Networks

Principal, Deal Strategy & Economics

F5 Networks$149K — $224K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in sales operations or commercial support roles
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel for model structuring and analysis
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting complex analyses
  • Experience with client-facing presentations or consulting analyses
  • Organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Responsibilities

  • Own key components of complex financial modeling and deal support
  • Translate deal requirements into clear TCO/ROI analyses
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address commercial challenges
  • Improve the scalability and maintainability of financial modeling tools
  • Develop repeatable playbooks and decision frameworks for strategic deals
  • Support quarterly deal flow with analytical insights

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • Generous paid time off policies
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Incentive compensation, including bonuses and stock options
Full Job Description
This role partners closely with the Global Strategic Pursuits (GSP) leader to help build and scale the commercial "engine room" that supports F5's most strategic and impactful deals. Serving as a highly analytical partner to the GSP leader, this individual will own key components of complex modeling, deal support, and insight development, while also helping build durable tools, templates, and processes that improve the speed and quality of commercial decision-making.

The role combines deep analytical execution with cross-functional partnership. This person will work directly with sellers and internal stakeholders to translate commercial concepts, deal requirements, and data inputs into clear, logical, and defensible TCO/ROI analyses for both internal and external audiences. In addition to supporting quarterly deal flow, this role will be expected to improve the scalability and maintainability of our modeling tools and convert strategic deal activity into repeatable playbooks, benchmarks, and decision frameworks.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with the following attributes:
  • Analyzer: Detail-oriented and intellectually curious, with a strong instinct to understand the "why" and "how" behind business questions, assumptions, and outcomes.
  • Builder: Designs and improves financial models, tools, and frameworks with an appropriate balance of rigor, speed, and practicality.
  • Collaborator: Operates as a consultative partner across Sales, Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Operations to solve complex commercial problems.
  • Communicator: Distills complexity into clear insights, recommendations, and narratives tailored to different audiences.
  • Confident Realist: Produces high-quality outputs with confidence, while remaining transparent about assumptions, tradeoffs, and model limitations.

Required Skills and Experience
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining accuracy and follow-through
  • Advanced Excel modeling capabilities, including model structuring, scenario analysis, and output design
  • Strong judgment in creating executive-ready materials, with a high degree of PowerPoint proficiency
  • Experience in sales, sales operations, deal management, pricing, finance, or related commercial support roles
  • Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly and defend logic with internal stakeholders
  • Customer-facing presentation experience, or a comparable background delivering consulting-style analyses and recommendations


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with SQL, Python, BI tools, or related analytical capabilities to accelerate ad hoc analysis and model development
  • Exposure to model governance, version control, or QA disciplines in a business or commercial setting


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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: $149,600.00 - $224,400.00

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 [redacted].com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc. is a global company that specializes in application services and application delivery networking (ADN). F5 technologies focus on the delivery, security, performance, and availability of web applications, as well as the availability of servers, cloud resources, data storage devices, and other networking components. F5 Networks is a leading provider of application delivery networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, and availability of servers, data storage devices, and other networking components. F5 Networks is a leading provider of application delivery networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, and availability of servers, data storage devices, and other networking components. F5 Networks is a leading provider of application delivery networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, and availability of servers, data storage devices, and other networking components.
Learn more about F5 Networks
Size
6,461 employees
Market Cap
$8.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$296.5 million
Founded
1996
5 Year Trend
+5.2%
Revenue
$2.4 billion
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