Creative Partnerships Manager
Volterra
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.
We are currently searching for a Creative Partnerships Manager to join the Worldwide Marketing team in our Seattle headquarters, who will orchestrate and oversee creative projects that align with F5 brand identity and business objectives, acting as a bridge between stakeholders, the internal creative team, and external creative agencies.
Position Summary
As Creative Partnerships Manager on the Worldwide Marketing team, you will ensure projects can be communicated, created and delivered, balancing the needs of stakeholders with those of the internal creative team and external creative agencies. You will translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable creative briefs, and ensure that all parties have a shared understanding of project goals, timelines, and deliverables. You will be a detective, asking the right questions to help stakeholders better plan for incoming projects. You will embrace a support and leadership mindset, knowing how and when to balance each at the highest level. Your success in this role will be measured by delivering high-quality creative projects that drive business results, fostering strong internal and external partnerships, and contributing to the company's overall growth.
You will:
- Have a leadership mindset, exhibiting BeF5 and LeadF5 principles
- Have an owner mindset, work with agility and focus on positive customer outcomes, and create an inclusive and collaborative environment in which all people can thrive
- Own the client, the communication, and the process for creative projects
- Understand F5’s corporate and Worldwide Marketing priorities and ensure measurement mechanisms reflect performance against benchmarks
- Act as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders, managing communication, expectations, and deliverables
- Support strategy, communication, and deliverables to, for, and with agencies with a focus on efficiency, value, and clarity.
- Manage the day-to-day interactions with agencies, ensuring smooth workflows and timely delivery of services, monitoring the status of ongoing projects, and ensuring that all tasks are on track for timely completion.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks, including client satisfaction, off-target work, or project delays
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and work with the internal team and agencies to implement changes.
- Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies
- Perform other related duties as assignement
Your knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Ability to build relationships, credibility, and trust, balancing multiple stakeholder needs effectively
- Understanding of brand identity and marketing principles
- Ability to analyze and interpret business objectives to inform creative strategies
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable creative briefs, discovering project requirements and potential challenges
- Familiarity with creative project management methodologies
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Negotiation and conflict resolution abilities
- Ability to adapt communication style for different audiences (e.g., creatives, executives, clients)
- Ability to manage timelines and resources efficiently
You have:
- A track record of success leading internal and external creative partnerships for a brand or product with meaningful results in the market
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
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 U.S. base pay range for this position is: $100,640.00 - $150,960.00F5 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 accommodations@f5.com.