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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. Role Overview This is a hands-on player-coach leadership role designed for an exceptional product leader who wants to remain close to the technology while scaling a high-performing team. As the Director of Product Management for AI Security, you will lead a dedicated team of AI Security product managers, while personally driving high-stakes strategic initiatives. You will own the entire product lifecycle—from initial ideation and technology research through to engineering delivery, go-to-market pricing strategy, and global sales enablement. Partnering with top-tier foundation model providers, design partner customers, and our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams, you will establish our organization as the definitive leader in enterprise AI security. Key Takeaways of the Role High-Impact Leadership: Scale and mentor an elite team of technical AI Security PMs while remaining hands-on in product delivery. Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Drive product success beyond engineering—owning market positioning, pricing models, packaging, and commercial enablement. Cutting-Edge Security Domain: Direct our strategy across Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways, agentic identity, real-time guardrails, and automated red-teaming. Key Responsibilities 1. Team Leadership & Coaching (The Coach ) Lead, mentor, and grow a team of specialized AI Security Product Managers, establishing high standards for technical rigor, product execution, and customer empathy. Foster a collaborative culture that balances deep technical platform engineering with commercial, customer-first product design. Actively manage resource allocation, roadmap prioritization, and career development paths for your PM team. 2. Hands-on Product Strategy & Execution (The Player ) Personally own strategic, high-complexity product areas, including our integration roadmap with top-tier model providers and design partners. Translate market requirements into an actionable, multi-year product vision, bridging the gap between cutting-edge security research and production-grade software. Drive alignment across engineering, data science, and developer relations to ship highly performant AI Gateway, MCP Gateway, and Agentic Identity management solutions. 3. Full Lifecycle & Business Ownership Ideation & Research: Track emerging LLM vulnerabilities, agentic workflows, and security frameworks to identify next-generation product opportunities. Pricing & Packaging: Develop and iterate on monetization strategies, enterprise pricing tiers, and licensing models tailored to API-based and agentic AI consumption. Sales Enablement & GTM: Build the collateral, training, and technical content needed to empower our direct sales team and partner channels to successfully sell complex AI security solutions. Customer Advisory: Serve as an industry thought leader, directly advising enterprise CISOs, enterprise design partners, and chief architects on secure AI deployment patterns. Required Qualifications & Technical Skills Leadership Experience: 3 years of direct people management experience, with a proven track record of recruiting, mentoring, and retaining high-performing technical Product Managers. Product Experience: 10 years of product management experience in enterprise cybersecurity, cloud security, or developer platforms (with at least 2 years dedicated to AI/ML platforms or AI security). Deep Domain Expertise: Strong familiarity with AI guardrails, automonous red teaming, Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, AI Gateway architectures, and secure agentic platform development. Security & IAM Concepts: Strong grasp of Workload Identity, Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance, real-time guardrail architectures, LLM red-teaming/evaluations, and API gateway security. Commercial & Business Acumen: Demonstrated experience designing software pricing strategies, launching new products to market, and leading technical sales enablement programs. Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical field. MBA or equivalent business experience is a strong plus. #LI-JB1 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: $248,600.00 - $373,000.00 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: f5.com . 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 .

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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.
Key Takeaways of the Role High-Impact Leadership: Scale and mentor an elite team of technical AI Security PMs while remaining hands-on in product delivery.
Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Drive product success beyond engineering—owning market positioning, pricing models, packaging, and commercial enablement.
Cutting-Edge Security Domain: Direct our strategy across Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways, agentic identity, real-time guardrails, and automated red-teaming.
Key Responsibilities 1. Team Leadership & Coaching (The Coach )
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of specialized AI Security Product Managers, establishing high standards for technical rigor, product execution, and customer empathy.
Foster a collaborative culture that balances deep technical platform engineering with commercial, customer-first product design.
Actively manage resource allocation, roadmap prioritization, and career development paths for your PM team.
Hands-on Product Strategy & Execution (The Player )
Personally own strategic, high-complexity product areas, including our integration roadmap with top-tier model providers and design partners.
Translate market requirements into an actionable, multi-year product vision, bridging the gap between cutting-edge security research and production-grade software.
Drive alignment across engineering, data science, and developer relations to ship highly performant AI Gateway, MCP Gateway, and Agentic Identity management solutions.
Full Lifecycle & Business Ownership
Ideation & Research: Track emerging LLM vulnerabilities, agentic workflows, and security frameworks to identify next-generation product opportunities.
Pricing & Packaging: Develop and iterate on monetization strategies, enterprise pricing tiers, and licensing models tailored to API-based and agentic AI consumption.
Sales Enablement & GTM: Build the collateral, training, and technical content needed to empower our direct sales team and partner channels to successfully sell complex AI security solutions.
Customer Advisory: Serve as an industry thought leader, directly advising enterprise CISOs, enterprise design partners, and chief architects on secure AI deployment patterns.
Product Experience: 10 years of product management experience in enterprise cybersecurity, cloud security, or developer platforms (with at least 2 years dedicated to AI/ML platforms or AI security).
Deep Domain Expertise: Strong familiarity with AI guardrails, automonous red teaming, Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, AI Gateway architectures, and secure agentic platform development.
Security & IAM Concepts: Strong grasp of Workload Identity, Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance, real-time guardrail architectures, LLM red-teaming/evaluations, and API gateway security.
Commercial & Business Acumen: Demonstrated experience designing software pricing strategies, launching new products to market, and leading technical sales enablement programs.
Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical field. MBA or equivalent business experience is a strong plus.
The annual base pay for this position is: $248,600.00 - $373,000.00
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 ) .

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