Sr Technical Program Manager (Creative Design)
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.
Life at F5 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 isn't driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it's producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we're committed to a culture that supports your whole life.
Position Summary
The senior technical program manager (TPM) is an authority with excellent interpersonal skills, strength working cross-functionally, with ability to influence and facilitate others to solve business problems and deliver solutions. The position requires a unique blend of business and technical savviness: a big-picture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage and drive work with software engineers. The TPM will be presenting complex technical challenges and resolutions to leadership and other stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
- Communicate and collaborate complex technical challenges and resolutions defining cross-functional work to leadership and other partners
- Negotiate challenging priorities and navigate complex organizational dynamics to establish delivery plans, forecasts, and budgets
- Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams to solve business problems and deliver solutions
- Bring the product vision and the technical build together – become the glue between functional teams
- Develop strong relationships to engage, align, and empower people to deliver
- Maintain and continue to develop a broad knowledge of business & technology expertise – understand the interconnections between the people, the processes, and the technology solutions
- Bring an outstanding blend of business and technical savvy: a big-picture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage with software engineers
- Develop, report, and continually improve performance metrics
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
- Demonstrate ownership and autonomy in owned projects and functional areas and drive delivery of high-quality results
- Build strategies for issue and risk mitigation and contingency planning
- Lead all aspects of project/program deliverables and adhere to audit/compliance requirements
- Support the development of high-performing global teams for effectively handling sophisticated and multifaceted programs
- Responsible for upholding F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to develop strong working relationships to engage, align, and motivate people to deliver
- Ability to bridge the gap between Product, Engineering, and Architecture groups to facilitate solutions
- Strong project and program management skills
- Comfort in technical delivery
- Understanding of Agile Delivery Methodology
- Understand the importance of building strong working relationships
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills
- Ability to quickly master technical concepts
- While encouraged to be a facilitator and driver, equally comfortable digging into business requirements or drilling into architecture with development teams to solve complex problems
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or related field
- 8+ years' experience in Technical Program, IT, and/or project management
- 5+ years of experience in a program manager capacity
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall program management methodologies
- Experience leading a geo-dispersed team
- Experience working in a concurrent software development environment as part of a complex build and merge management process
- Technology product development experience is highly desired
Physical Demands and Work Environment
- Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
- Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
- Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
- Duties require the ability to travel up to 80% via automobile and airplane and may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
- Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.
- Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.
We offer work/life integration programs like Freedom to Flex, dynamic employee inclusion groups, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance for professional development, a comprehensive mentoring program, rewards/recognition, and so much more. At F5, we truly do help each other thrive and it shows: F5 has been named one of the “World's Most Admired Companies” by Fortune magazine for the past two years.
And this commitment to living our culture doesn't just exist within our offices; it extends into our communities through Global Good initiatives such as employee matching, volunteer opportunities, and the F5 Foundation. Our employees are passionate about making a difference in the world.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become part of a company that's on the leading edge of transformation. And because we know that a more diverse F5 is a more powerful F5, we're looking for smart, talented, determined individuals to join us. If you make thoughtful decisions quickly, obsess over your customers' needs, take ownership of your work (the mistakes as well as the successes), and embrace different perspectives by putting the human first, then we want to talk to you.
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.
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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. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.
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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: $170,632.00 - $255,948.00F5 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.
