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　　Position Summary:

　　Reporting to the Sr. Director of Analyst Relations, the Analyst Relations Manager establishes, nurtures, and builds relationships with technology industry analysts to maintain and enhance F5's credibility and thought leadership with these constituents. The primary objective is to ensure that key influencers support F5's story as those industry analysts interact with customers/prospects, partners, journalists, and financial analysts. Another objective is to facilitate the exchange of expertise and insight from analysts to F5s product development staff, informing F5s strategy and solution creation processes with an expert external perspective.

　　This role provides an individual with the right mix of curiosity, follow-through, and strategic mindset with an opportunity to work with the tech industrys smartest and most critical minds in cloud computing, security, and enterprise IT. This position has high visibility inside F5 and has the potential to have a material impact on F5s entire business. A results orientation is key; this isnt the position for those of a bureaucratic, process-driven mindset.

　　Primary Responsibilities:

　　Effectively assess and address the needs of relevant analysts as it relate to their research needs and customer inquiries about F5. This primarily includes support for analyst market share reports, vendor profiles, competitive market reports, and customer-generated questions about F5.

　　Manage analyst outreach strategy to ensure accurate, comprehensive and consistent coverage of F5. This encompasses products, company, partnership and channel-related information and includes the synthesis of Corporate Marketing, Product Management, and Product Marketing messaging for analyst outreach. This objective is important in supporting the F5 "solution-selling" strategy.

　　Manage F5 vendor or product ratings and industry analyst reports ranking F5s products and services, including Gartner Magic Quadrants/Critical Capabilities and Forrester Waves.

　　Proactively reach out and broaden relationships with relevant analysts to ensure that F5 is well-positioned and top-of-mind with analysts who influence the opinions of the market, particularly customers/prospects, journalists and financial investors. This includes providing strategic guidance to both Product Management and Product Marketing personnel as it pertains to outreach.

　　Leverage analyst research and relationships to provide supporting evidence to help F5 salespeople close business. This includes understanding the research and reporting cycles of key analysts, as well as identifying, analyzing, producing and disseminating relevant information in a timely and digestible manner.

　　Support F5 personnel in need of analyst market research information to support/enhance their functions. Departments such as Sales and Marketing often require