Client Project Manager III

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. 
 

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Job Family Overview

The Professional Services family group at F5 is responsible for providing fee-for-service consulting services to clients by providing a complete project solution to achieve

measurable business improvement using firm products and services, defining

opportunity/process, systems integration, or other proprietary tools.

F5’s Client Project Management job family leads client-facing engagements, primarily focused on the delivery of technology, software, or systems implementation projects. Serves as the primary point of contact for clients, managing project scope, timelines, and cross-functional delivery teams. Ensures projects meet technical requirements, quality standards, and business outcomes while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction. Drives complex implementations, develops program governance, and influences account growth through trusted client relationships.

Fundamental 5

TECHNICAL ACUMEN Possesses a broad understanding of various Client Project Management techniques, tools, and methodologies. Designs, builds and maintains

project plans including scope, schedule, budget, and risk management. This includes overseeing Client Project Management teams to ensure project delivery and outcomes are successful across the organization. Lead collaboration across all stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational and client strategies and priorities.

CRITICAL REASONING (JUDGMENT, DECISION MAKING, AND PRAGMATISM).

Exercises sound judgment based on an ability to incorporate experience, data, priorities, and stakeholder needs, and evaluate potential constraints to arrive at the most beneficial path forward. Consistently exhibits the ability to navigate situations with thought, purpose, and sensibility after adequately contemplating various available courses of action, balancing the trade-offs between immediate and long-term needs. Recognizes that while the effect of a single fix may not always be terribly significant, the accumulative effect over time makes each decision extremely valuable.

INITIATIVE & ADAPTABILITY

Does more than is required or expected, not because someone requested it but because it will improve or enhance a product and/or avoid problems. Plans for upcoming problems or opportunities and takes actions accordingly. Applies original thinking to improve processes, methods, systems, or services. Deals well with ambiguities, focusing on evaluating a situation, identifying what is and is not a priority, and moving toward the most logical outcome.

PARTNERSHIP

Recognizes collaboration fosters the most effective exchange of ideas and talent, facilitating open dialogues with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders, building partnerships, leveraging skillsets, and sharing knowledge to achieve a common goal. Creates alignment through mutual accountability, transparent communications, and the application of change management principles.

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

Conveys information, vision, and strategy in an accurate and timely manner, adjusting to ensure understanding based on the audience. Actively listens; seeks to understand rather than respond. Proactively solicits and values diverse perspectives, ideas, and opinions.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of mid-to-large-scale client projects in technology or systems domains.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
• Manages scope, schedules, and resourcing, proactively mitigating risks and resolving issues.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure technical and business requirements are met.

Attributes

• Receives minimal instruction on new client projects and begins to proactively take on more complex work.
• Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select the right course of action.
• Work is done independently and is reviewed at critical points.
• May impact closely related teams including all teams that are assisted.
• Proficient in building and maintaining project plans including scope, schedule, Budget and risk management.
• Able to effectively project cost account to both forecast budget and manage expenditures and monitor progress to project pans and design recovery strategies if the project deviates from the baseline plan.
• Communicates moderately complex concepts with others to inform and direct action.

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.

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].