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.

　　Responsible for guiding, augmenting and extending the reach of F5 Security products. The role requires an individual with strong leadership, partnering and analytical abilities, who can lead a team and build a shared vision for F5s security direction; foster a vibrant ecosystem to deliver security products on top of the F5's multiple platform; help to build products from existing ideas; and help to develop new insights based on industry experience and contact with customers, prospects and partners.

　　You will work with closely with customers, sales, marketing, product development, professional services and business development to accomplish F5s security product goals. This role will have a large focus on delivering security products to the F5s Distributed Cloud SaaS platform.

　　Primary Responsibilities

　　Define, communicate, plan and execute the F5 Security vision and strategy; prioritizing, determining resource and allocation needs, strategic development and product strategy and delivering results to senior management. Align that vision with the overall company goals and lead the effort to create product positioning and messaging across the security domain.

　　Own all product management end-to-end, reporting directly to the across the General Managers for Distributed Cloud, BigIP, and NGINX organizations and managing the product development process from inception to product delivery

　　Establish and evangelize a clear charter, vision, and product strategy for the F5 security suite of products and technologies; create a decision making framework based on that vision that can be used to evaluate new product opportunities and to make build/buy/partner decisions

　　Management duties include the supervision of exempt and/or nonexempt level staff. This includes but is not limited to, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance improvement plans, taking disciplinary action, and interviewing candidates for open positions

　　Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners

　　Lead the definition of next-generation security technologies: lead efforts to identify new target products or markets, working closely with sales to identify and address broad industry trends and new technologies

　　Own Product Road Map and product launches for F5 security products

　　Develop and maintain short and long-term security product strategy documents and review with business leaders regularly to ensure strategy and development is in line with top priorities and key business initiatives

　　Work with regional business leaders to understand the market demands of all the regions to ensure that we meet global needs

　　Work with other internal groups, most notably Product Development, to deliver on the product strategy

　　Oversee market research including the competitive landscape to assess and identify customer needs

　　Establish pricing strategies an