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About the Role

This role sits at a critical experience intersection across the F5 and NGINX portfolio, defining how customers discover, operate, extend, and realize value from NGINX-based capabilities. Success requires connecting product strategy across these touchpoints for a unified, intuitive, and outcome-driven customer experience. You will define and drive capabilities for the xOps Services layer of the F5 ADSP platform, shaping how teams operate NGINX at scale, gain visibility, enforce consistency, and reduce operational toil.

Responsibilities

Participate in the product vision and strategy for xOps capabilities across the NGINX line of business in service of the F5 ADSP platform.
Conduct ongoing customer and market research to understand pain points of DevOps, PlatformOps, SecOps, and NetOps teams managing NGINX at scale.
Define Market Viable capabilities, write PRDs, and set tactical strategies for NGINX and NGINXaaS offerings.
Develop and maintain a clear, outcome-driven product roadmap in collaboration with engineering, design, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Define and drive capabilities across key xOps pillars: Policy & Management, Analytics & Insights, Orchestration & Automation, and AI Assistants & Programmability.
Partner with marketing and sales to position NGINXOne, NGINXaaS, and related xOps capabilities.
Collaborate with Technical Product Managers and engineering to deliver developer-centric solutions deployable across on-prem, cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS environments.
Ensure alignment with cloud-native ecosystems, including Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, and API gateway workflows.
Act as a trusted advisor to the Director of Product Management, providing data-backed insights, competitive intelligence, and strategic recommendations.
Define and monitor KPIs and success metrics, iterating strategy based on product and customer data.
Clearly communicate product strategy, customer outcomes, and roadmap priorities to diverse audiences.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience delivering successful products with a focus on operational tooling, developer platforms, infrastructure software, or cloud services.
Prior experience setting and delivering on a strategy you've crafted, accountable for outcomes end-to-end.
Strong track record of delivering global products to a diverse customer base, from SMBs to enterprise-scale organizations.
Collaborated with engineers in developing technical architecture, leveraging a solid understanding of networking, application delivery, and application security concepts.
Deep familiarity with DevOps workflows and toolchains, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and API gateways.
Hands-on familiarity with NGINX or similar technologies (e.g., HAProxy, Envoy, Kong).
Experience in the cloud services space, with an understanding of its unique challenges.
Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) is required, with at least 2–3 years of experience in GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI.
Experience building a core service on one of the major cloud providers is strongly preferred.
Knowledge of Cloud Operations, web traffic and application infrastructure, and modern web standards and protocols.
Strong customer orientation, with the ability to balance user feedback, market insights, competitive dynamics, and business objectives.
Exceptional communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Strong business acumen, with the ability to identify market opportunities, build compelling business cases, and prioritize initiatives.
Willingness to travel up to 20% as required.

Skills

Product Management
Operational Tooling
Developer Platforms
Infrastructure Software
Cloud Services
Networking
Application Delivery
Application Security
DNS/HTTP/TLS
WAF/WAAP
AuthN/Z Security Technologies
DevOps Workflows
CI/CD Pipelines
Infrastructure-as-Code
Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
API Gateways
NGINX
HAProxy
Envoy
Kong
Cloud Operations
Web Traffic Management
Application Infrastructure
Modern Web Standards and Protocols
Customer Orientation
Market Insights
Business Acumen
Communication
Facilitation
Collaboration

Location

Hybrid
Remote

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years

Salary/Compensations

$149,600.00 - $224,400.00

Benefits

Incentive compensation
Bonus
Restricted stock units
Benefits

About the Company

At F5, we help organizations deliver and secure extraordinary digital experiences by building and supporting solutions that enable the modern, adaptive applications customers rely on.
Our Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) powers complex infrastructures across a wide range of industries, from SMBs to global enterprises, by meeting their unique operational and security needs.
As part of the broader F5 family, NGINX plays a pivotal role in enabling organizations to build high-performing, scalable application delivery architectures across a variety of platforms and topologies.
Widely trusted as one of the most used open-source technologies, NGINX enables developers to build, deploy, and scale modern applications with confidence.
This includes products F5 builds on top of NGINX, such as NGINXaaS (NGINX as a Service), F5's advanced ADCaaS offering, which extends these capabilities into fully managed cloud environments — enabling businesses to build, deploy, and scale cloud applications without operational toil.
And NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Gateway Fabric specifically for Kubernetes environments.
Founded in 1996, F5 is a global leader in application delivery and security.
Our premier platform helps customers secure and deliver every app, API, and piece of infrastructure across all environments.
Backed by over three decades of expertise and 553 patents, our solutions protect against threats while ensuring fast, reliable digital experiences.
With over 6,400 employees, we serve more than 23,000 customers in over 170 countries.
We're committed to a unique, human-first culture that encourages authenticity, prioritizes diversity and inclusion, and fosters the growth and success of our employees.

Equal 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.