Principle 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.

Role Summary

F5 Digital is building the enterprise AI muscle that will power the next generation of intelligent, secure, and scalable internal platforms. We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to run our Agentic AI program end-to-end.
 

This role will own the roadmap and prioritization across all of Digitial's Key AI initiatives. The Principal PM will partner deeply with business functions to ensure stakeholder alignment and will be responsible for driving the AI Agent Center of Excellence (CoE) strategy.

The ideal candidate combines visionary product leadership with hands-on AI fluency, understands enterprise platform thinking, and thrives in ambiguity while driving massive, organization-wide outcomes.
 

Key Responsibilities:

Agentic AI Strategy & Roadmap

• Own and execute the end-to-end vision and roadmap for the Agentic AI program.

• Drive prioritization across all cross functional AI initiatives, ensuring cohesive platform evolution.

• Define and establish the AI Agent Center of Excellence (CoE) strategy to standardize and scale AI development.

Product Ownership & Execution

• Lead Agile delivery across cross-functional teams including engineering, security, architecture, and data.

• Translate complex AI capabilities (LLMs, agents, reasoning engines) into clearly defined epics and features with measurable outcomes.

• Balance business impact, technical feasibility, and developer experience at a senior level.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Alignment

• Drive deep stakeholder alignment across all business functions to ensure the Agentic AI program solves high-impact enterprise problems.

• Act as a central bridge between business leaders and technical teams (Engineering, Architecture, Gemini team).

Governance & Responsible AI

• Oversee the governance of agentic workflows, ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-effective deployments.

• Lead AI Innovation Reviews for new, high-stakes AI use cases through the CoE.

Metrics & Business Impact

• Define and track North Star metrics tied to Agentic AI platform adoption, CoE success, and organizational ROI.

• Continuously iterate strategic direction based on macro AI trends, usage data, and business feedback.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of Product Management experience delivering technical SaaS, AI, or platform products.

• Deep understanding of generative AI concepts including LLMs, agents, RAG, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Proven experience defining and running programs end-to-end and driving cross-functional alignment at the executive level.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to define success metrics and tie product initiatives to business outcomes.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex AI concepts for diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or leading an AI/Tech Center of Excellence (CoE).

• Experience working with enterprise AI platforms such as Gemini, OpenAI, Azure AI, or similar.

• Familiarity with secure AI deployment patterns including observability, logging, guardrails, and access controls.

What Success Looks Like

• Deliver a cohesive, end-to-end Agentic AI roadmap across F5AI, Helix, and the Developer Platform.

• Successfully establish and scale the AI Agent CoE.

• Achieve high alignment and satisfaction scores from cross-functional business stakeholders.

• Establish clear governance, monitoring, and execution frameworks for enterprise AI.

Why Join F5 Digital?

This is an opportunity to help shape F5’s enterprise AI foundation and build a platform that empowers every team to innovate responsibly with AI. You will work at the intersection of AI strategy, platform engineering, governance, and real-world business impact—defining how F5 scales intelligent automation across the company.

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: $195,400.00 - $293,000.00

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: 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 [email protected].