Senior Product Manager

About this role

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.

Who We Are  

At F5, we help organizations deliver and secure extraordinary digital experiences by building and supporting solutions that enable the modern, adaptive applications customers   rely   on. Our Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) powers complex infrastructures across a wide range of industries, from SMBs to global enterprises, by meeting their unique operational and security needs .    

As part of the broader F5 family, NGINX plays a pivotal role in enabling organizations to build high-performing, scalable application delivery architectures   ac ross a   vari ety of   plat forms and   top ologie s . Widely trusted as one of the most used open-source technologies, NGINX enables developers to build, deploy, and scale modern applications with confidence.   This includes   prod ucts   F5   builds   on   top of   NGINX , s uch as   NGINXaaS   (NGINX as a Service), F5's advanced   ADCaaS   offering, which extends these capabilities into fully managed cloud environments — enabling businesses to build, deploy, and scale cloud applications without operational toil .     And   NGINX   Ing ress   Con trol ler and   NGINX G ateway F abric   spec ifically   for   Kuber netes   environ ments.  

We are seeking a   Senior   Product Manager   to join us on this journey and play a critical role in shaping the future of NGINX and its position within the   F5   Application Delivery and Security Platform.  

The Role  

As   Senior Product Manager ,   this role   sits at a critical experience intersection across the F5 and NGINX portfolio. It will help define how customers discover,   operate , extend, and realize value from NGINX-based capabilities, including adjacent F5 offerings and products that build differentiated value on top of NGINX. Success requires connecting product strategy across these   touchpoints   so customers experience a more unified, intuitive, and outcome-driven path from deployment to ongoing management, security, and optimization.  

Working closely with engineering, design, security,   your   product p eers ,   and go-to-market teams, you will define and drive the capabilities that make up the   xOps   Services layer   of the F5   ADSP   platform: policy and management, analytics and insights, orchestration and automation, and AI-assisted programmability. Your work will directly shape how teams   operat e   NGINX at scale — from a handful of instances to thousands across hybrid and multi-cloud environments — gain visibility, enforce consistency, and reduce operational toil.  

To thrive in this role, you must be energized by deeply understanding customer pain — the messy realities of fleet management, security posture drift, config sprawl, fragmented observability, and the pressure DevOps teams face to ship faster without sacrificing security. You will champion the voice of the customer and translate it into a focused, prioritized roadmap that drives measurable outcomes.    

  K ey Responsibilities  

• Participate in the   product vision and strategy for   xOps   capabilities   across   the   NGINX   line of   busine ss   in service of   the   F5 ADSP platform   — spanning fleet management, security policy enforcement (WAF/DoS),   observability   and lifecycle automation   while also   shaping the   NGINXaaS   roadmap as the advanced managed   ADCaaS   offering .  

• Conduct ongoing   customer and market research   to deeply understand the pain points of DevOps,   PlatformOps , SecOps, and NetOps teams managing NGINX in production at scale, translating insights into prioritized product opportunities.  

• Define Market Viable capabilities, write PRDs, and set tactical strategies for the next generation of NGINX and   NGINXaaS   offerings, taking into consideration public cloud market trends, customer requirements, and the competitive landscape.  

• Develop and maintain a   clear, outcome-driven product roadmap   in collaboration with engineering, design, and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing short-term customer needs with long-term platform strategy.  

• Define and drive capabilities across key   xOps   pillars:  

• Policy & Management   — Unified configuration and security policy enforcement   for   NGINX   busine ss   line   pro ducts  

• Analytics & Insights   — Fleet-wide   a nd   offering - wide   observability, health monitoring, anomaly detection, and actionable reporting .  

• Orchestration & Automation   — Lifecycle automation that reduces toil and accelerates deployment pipelines .  

• AI Assistants & Programmability   — Intelligent, developer-friendly tooling that integrates into existing DevOps workflows  

• Partner with   marketing and sales   to position   NGINX One ,   NGINXaaS ,   and related   xOps   capabilities as   key   components   of   F5 ’s   ADSP, crafting   compelling   narratives   that resonate with DevOps engineers ,   platform   operations   leaders   a nd cloud -native   audiences .  

• Collaborate with   Technical Product Managers   and engineering to deliver solutions that are developer-centric, technically sound, and deployable across on-prem, cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS environments.  

• Ensure alignment with   cloud-native ecosystems , including Kubernetes (NGINX Ingress Controller), Docker, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, and API gateway workflows.  

• Act as a trusted advisor to the   Director of Product Management ,   providing   data-backed insights, competitive int

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