Position Summary

The Senior Product Manager will drive product management for F5's Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities across modern application environments, including containerized and cloud-native architectures built on Nginx, Envoy, and Kubernetes. This role requires strong technical depth in application security, hands-on familiarity with modern proxy and service mesh technologies, and working knowledge of AI/agentic application architectures to help shape F5's approach to AI workload protection. The Senior PM will partner closely witharchitecturePMs, engineering, and go-to-market teams to deliver features that keep F5's WAAP portfolio ahead of an evolving threat and technology landscape. 
 

Primary Responsibilities

Product Delivery

• Own product management activities for WAF capabilities spanning modern app environments (Nginx, Envoy, Kubernetes/container-based deployments)

• Define and prioritize requirements for extending WAF protections to AI-driven and agentic application workloads

• Contribute to technical marketing content — reference architectures, solution briefs, and customer case studies — to drive product awareness

• Support web content,whitepapers, and product demonstrations that drive customer adoptionin partnership with product and technical marketing

• Drive adoption of new WAF and AI workload protection capabilities through customer enablement, sales/partner readiness, and structured adoption tracking

• Track and report onproduct and business performance, bringing data-backed insights to business reviews
   

Customer Engagement & Feedback

• Engage directly with customers to understand their security goals, technical constraints, and requirements for protecting modern and AI-powered applications

• Translate customer feedback into prioritized backlog items based on business value and technical feasibility
   

MarketAnalysis

• Monitor competitive and market developments inKubernetes,cloud-native application/API security (WAAP)and AI workload protection 

• Validate demand and usage patterns to inform roadmap decisions

• Stay current on developments in cloud-native application delivery, service mesh, and AI agent architectures
   

Team Collaboration

• Partner with engineering to translate requirements into well-scoped product backlog items and support seamless rollouts

• Build strong working relationships across engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support

• Collaborate with Principal PMs and senior stakeholders on portfolio-level prioritization decisions

• Work with marketing and sales to support smooth product delivery and go-to-market execution

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with networking/cybersecurity products such as firewalls, proxies, or WAFs, and core networking concepts

• Working knowledge of modern app infrastructure: Nginx, Envoy, Kubernetes, and container/cloud-native environments

• Familiarity with AI tooling and agentic application architectures, with the ability to reason about associated security risks and workload protection needs

• Understanding of SaaS security services and delivery models
  

Stakeholder Management

• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills

• Ability to manage expectations across diverse stakeholder groups

• Comfortable operating with a data-driven approach in a fast-paced, changing environment

Analytical Skills

• Strong business analysis skills, with the ability to translate raw data into clear, actionable product and business insights 

• Proficient in building metrics, dashboards, and reports using AI-powered analytics tools, in addition to traditional BI platforms (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Power BI, SQL) 

• Able to define and track KPIs that measure product adoption, usage, and business impact 

• Working knowledge of data analytics to support decision-making 

• Awareness of emerging technology trends and their potential impact onF5's business

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field

• Networking & cybersecurity technical backgroundrequired

• 5+ years in technical product management or a related domain

• 3+ years of product management experience in cybersecurity

• Exposure to cloud-native application environments (containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices) and/or AI application architectures strongly preferred 

• Demonstrated experience building business metrics and reports using AI-powered analytics tools, moving beyond traditional BI platforms (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Power BI, SQL) toleverageAI-assisted data analysis and reporting

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