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Dublin, Éire / Ireland
Hybrid
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.
About the Role
AI is reshaping how enterprises build and operate software, and with that comes an entirely new attack surface. F5 is at the forefront of securing AI applications and infrastructure, and we're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own and drive the AI Guardrails product area — one of the most strategically critical spaces in our AI security platform.
This isn't a generalist PM role. You'll be working at the intersection of AI security, agentic systems, and real-world enterprise deployments, navigating bespoke on-prem architectures, managing a rich ecosystem of integrations and partnerships, and making sure customers can adopt what we build.
If you've shipped security or infrastructure products, understand how enterprises deploy software in the real world (not just in the cloud), and get energized by moving fast in a space that's evolving daily — we want to talk to you.
What You'll Own
Product Roadmap & Strategy
Own the roadmap for AI Guardrails and agent security, with potential scope expansion as the platform grows and evolves.
Define features, scope requirements, and prioritize product improvements, balancing customer needs, technical constraints, business objectives, and product usability.
Integrations & Partnerships
Lead product management for our integrations ecosystem — from coding assistants to enterprise AI platforms.
Prioritize integrations based on market demand, business value, and technical feasibility, and actively manage the stakeholders behind each one.
When new integrations come in (e.g., connections to coding assistants), ensure full feature parity is validated, gaps are flagged as intentional decisions, and GTM teams are equipped to communicate them clearly.
Customer Deployment & Adoption
Develop a deep understanding of on-premises deployment complexity and bespoke enterprise architectures.
Work directly with customers and field teams to drive feature adoption and reduce time-to-value, whether that’s via the UI or the SDK.
Ensure all integrations, operators, and troubleshooting workflows have accurate, timely, and customer-ready documentation.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with PMM and GTM to develop compelling positioning, pricing & packaging input, and enablement materials.
Drive analyst briefings, customer demos, and competitive research.
Translate technical complexity into clear narratives for executive, sales, and partner audiences.
Process Optimization and Quality
Continuously improve team efficiency and effectiveness through rigorous process evaluation and proactive communication.
Test product quality regularly, ensuring both technical performance and user experiences remain uncompromising and aligned with standards.
What You Bring
Required
5+ years of product management experience in B2B technical products, with a strong track record of shipping and iterating on complex features.
Experience managing products with both SaaS and on-premises deployment models — you understand that enterprise reality is messy and know how to design for it.
A technical background in one or more of the following: cybersecurity, networking, software development, infrastructure, or AI/ML systems. You don't need to write the code, but you need to understand the tradeoffs.
Strong stakeholder management skills — you know how to align engineers, GTM teams, partners, and executives around a shared direction.
Ability to flex communication styles for diverse stakeholders, articulating the “why” behind decisions and simplifying complexity into actionable insights.
A bias toward action with the ability to make data-driven decisions under ambiguity, enabling continuous forward momentum
Preferred
Hands-on familiarity with AI security concepts — prompt injection, model abuse, data leakage, agent behavior, LLM observability, or similar.
Experience working in or with security products (WAF, API security, zero trust, SIEM, etc.).
Background in dual-track Agile and comfort balancing discovery and delivery simultaneously.
Experience influencing pricing and packaging decisions for technical products.
Why Join F5?
At F5, Sr Product Managers play a pivotal role in steering the product lifecycle from concept to execution. This role offers:
Autonomy to strategize and build innovative solutions that align directly with customer challenges and business opportunities.
Collaboration with talented engineers, designers, and marketers to deliver cutting-edge AI and cybersecurity solutions.
Opportunities to stay ahead of emerging trends in AI and technology, driving meaningful innovations in the marketplace.
An inclusive and forward-thinking culture where adaptability, growth, and results are celebrated.
What Success Looks Like
A successful Sr Product Manager at F5:
Advocates for customer-centric innovation and balances vision with execution to deliver high-impact features and solutions.
Empowers and unifies cross-functional teams to stay aligned on objectives and drive forward progress.
Manages complex development cycles seamlessly while balancing short-term tactical decisions with long-term strategic goals.
Demonstrates resilience, creativity, and a solution-driven mindset that contributes to the growth and adoption of F5’s products.
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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.
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.
