Product Manager

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.At F5 NGINX, 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. Everything we do centres around people. That means we obsess over how to improve our customers and their customers' lives. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 NGINX community where everyone can thrive.Why do you want to join our team? Life at F5 NGINX is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs-creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.But our success is not driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5 NGINX, our culture is how we live every single day. And it produces extraordinary results- not only for our customers but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than work, so we are committed to a culture supporting your life.At F5 NGINX, we are moving towards a modern, SaaS-based solution to simplify our customers’ observability and management needs. NGINX Instance Manager plays a critical role in enabling enterprises to manage their NGINX fleet by providing an aggregation point for all NGINX instances within an environment to connect to the SaaS management experience and its own management experience for disconnected environments. We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive the success of NGINX Instance Manager as a bridge between the NGINX data plane and our SaaS services.ResponsibilitiesDesign and prioritize product features informed by market trends, customer needs, and competitive differentiation.Define problem statements and product requirements led by customer focus.Clearly define the strategic overview to ruthlessly prioritize features and requests.Partner with engineering teams to deliver features with velocity.Work closely with our SaaS team to foster cohesion across the products.Define priorities to ensure successful, timely product launches with quality.Improve F5 NGINX's industry visibility, technical leadership, and thought leadership through technical articles, blogs, documentation, demonstrations, and other forms of leveraged communication about F5 NGINX solutions.Personal AttributesFlexible, self-motivated, a standout teammate, and able to work independently while leading cross-functional efforts and teams.Can-do attitude with passion to make customers, team members, and colleagues successful. Thrives on purpose and holds a deep desire to own a mission. Be an owner at all times. Natural inclinations to tackle challenges head-on and make a positive impact. Bias toward data-driven decision-making incorporating analytical rigour and creative thinking. Have a passion for NGINX and/or Open Source.QualificationsStrong customer focus with the ability to listen, prioritize, and champion key initiatives and projects for product development.Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technology and concepts clearly.Understanding of core Internet and API (Application Programming Interface) technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, TLS (Transport Layer Security), AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting), Proxy, Docker, and Kubernetes.Familiarity with DevOps practices, including continuous integration, deployment, delivery, automation, monitoring, and observability.Strong Linux skills; including installation, configuration, and maintaining servers.#LI-EM1The 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.