Product Manager II (Licensing)

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. 
 

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Product Management II (Licensing)

Job Description

As F5 continues to transform from being a successful Hardware company to a Security and software Industry Leader, we need the ability to quickly commercialize new products to the market. The Commercial Model team is responsible for ensuring product readiness for commercialization, including Pricing, Packaging, License Enablement, Telemetry, and other monetization aspects. The License Enablement function specifically focuses on expediting this cycle by creating and maintaining a standardized approach to product licensing functions, aiming to streamline processes and eliminate disparity across different product lines and their markets.

About the Role

The role will work closely with other Product Managers to understand customer licensing challenges, define areas for optimization, and enhance the overall customer experience. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management (PM) leaders to drive the licensing roadmap, ensuring alignment with product features and broader business goals.

In addition, you will partner with Engineering to prioritize initiatives, driving technical implementation, and ensuring licensing systems align with product development. You will also work with IT to automate and streamline licensing processes, and collaborate with Finance and Commercial Models teams to integrate licensing models into pricing and billing systems.

Your responsibilities will include optimizing workflows for efficiency, maintaining up-to-date documentation, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards, and troubleshooting licensing-related issues. You’ll also drive continuous improvements across departments to ensure a seamless licensing process.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Own the process of defining, refining, and documenting product requirements, proactively sharing them across multiple stakeholder groups for insights and feedback; recommend appropriate decisions toward requirements refinement and facilitate educated trade-off decisions as needed.
• Promote product strategies and vision across teams and to stakeholders; collaborate and coordinate across organizations to identify and bring forward any questions regarding alignment on product management and release, including tradeoffs, adjustments, and improvements.
• Create scalable processes to gather and analyze customer experiences and insights, analyze and report on findings, and suggest a follow-on course of action.
• Identify and recommend success metrics and key results related to established business objectives that enable meaningful progress measurement throughout the product lifecycle.
• Influence product feature set and positioning strategies using data to improve customer experience and drive growth
• Develop and implement a product roadmap that balances innovation, customer needs, and technical feasibility
• Define Product features and KPIs close to the level of ready for  execution for engineering
• Collaborate effectively with the Product Teams and across Engineering to support product release planning, schedules, and near and long-term roadmaps for your area of responsibility in alignment with all F5 Data product offerings.
• Integrate with organizational teams to build and maintain subject matter expertise
• Work with the shared Licensing team teams to scope, estimate, and plan the implementation of the product and coordinate its schedule with other deliverables.
• Participate in maintaining the appropriate level of transparency and education on current and future product plans for Executives, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and others with a need to know.
• Communicate and collaborate closely with Product Marketing, Solution Engineers, Sales, and our Executive team to discuss product design and implementation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 3+ years of Product Management experience
• Proven track record of crafting and evolving positive customer and partner experiences.
• Knowledgeable of technical processes, business strategies and marketing guidelines. Effectively establishes objectives across partner teams with a shared mindset, fostering open dialogue and collaboration.
• Data driven - uses methodologies, metrics, and analysis to assess performance against business goals. Demonstrated ability to understand basic technical concepts and negotiate feature/tech tradeoffs.
• Successfully communicates in a variety of settings, delivering messages in a manner that is broadly understandable at all levels; attentively listens and proactively encourages others to share diverse ideas and opinions.
• Experience leading cross-functional collaboration and end-to-end project management, including ability to lead multiple projects at a time and prioritize high impact activities
• Comfortable presenting succinctly to senior stakeholders and large audiences for demo etc
• Proven track record of creating customer-facing content that aligns to buying stages
• Self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced environment impacted by the evolving needs of a Network Hardware & SAAS business
• Strong strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data and deliver clear, actionable insights
• Demonstrated good business and technical judgment.
• Must be numerically facile with the ability to create new frameworks for data /information analysis, develop project plans and manage to timelines, and skillfully balance competing priorities and interests to meet business and financial objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or engineering, or equivalent degree
• 3+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience using business productivity: JIRA, Microsoft Office products, Google docs, etc.
• Knowledge of networking concepts is a plus

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.

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. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

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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: $93,600.00 - $140,400.00

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 @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.