Manager, Technical Product Management

$152,107 - $228,161/Yr

F5 - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Manager, Technical Product Management (Mgr., TPM) at F5 is responsible for leading a team that drives product strategy, requirements, and customer success for the BIG-IP Next product. This role requires strong skills in understanding customer needs, analyzing market dynamics, and setting product directions while managing a team of Technical Product Managers. The position emphasizes collaboration across various departments and effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure product delivery and success.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage team members to successfully complete product line/program strategy, establishing measurable goals and objectives that meet strategic goals.
• Serve as the company's authority for technical product roadmap and execution for the BIG-IP Next product.
• Identify potential market segments and their profitability.
• Contribute to product strategy solutions in the ADC and Security sectors.
• Accurately target the product in the market, build competitive advantages, and provide go-to-market implementation to maximize sales efficiency.
• Conduct market analyses, product/solutions requirements definition, and financial return on investment analyses to guide strategic product roadmaps.
• Illustrate the vision and key phases of product delivery with targeted timeframes via the Roadmap.
• Engage customers and prospects to understand and meet their business goals with F5 product solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documents for product requirements based on market inputs such as customer calls/visits, partners, trends, field feedback, services, win/loss analysis, competitive analysis, and other market opportunities.
• Partner with marketing, engineering, services, sales, and customers to drive product direction for F5's products, including Buy, Build, or Partner solution delivery.
• Create and deliver presentations tailored to various audiences and act as a key evangelist for F5 to the F5 product/solution set.
• Create reports that track performance of assigned product(s) based on customer success metrics.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in relevant field required, MBA a plus.
• 3+ years of experience in product management or equivalent.
• 3+ years of technical experience in the ADC market space including management products.
• 2+ years analyzing products, customers, and market dynamics a plus.
• Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technology clearly.
• Experience with Agile development methods and processes.
• Flexible, self-motivated, positive teammate.
• Ability to work independently or lead others on projects.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal & persuasion skills.

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Bonus
• Restricted stock units
• Comprehensive benefits package