People Matter

Product Manager I

Volterra

Volterra

Product
Seattle, WA, USA
USD 88,391-132,587 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 6, 2025

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.

As F5 continues to transform from being a successful Hardware company to a security and software Industry Leader, we need the ability to quickly deliver new offers to the market. The SDIM Team is responsible for evolving and operationalizing the SKU Development and Implementation capabilities, which will enable our speed to market. This team provides focused business analysis functions necessary to help support the Product Management and planning efforts in bring new offers to market. This team requires the ability to drive governance, product lifecycle alignment and enablement. The role will have business acumen to oversee key projects at various stages—including planning, designing new offer request, implementing the intake approval, and aiding in the design and set up of SKU Attributes.

The SDIM Lifecycle role will be responsible for collaborating and driving alignment with Product Management, Finance, Accounting, Sales, Sales Operations, Release Management, Technical Services, Legal and the Channel throughout the SDIM development process. This individual will be responsible for enforcing process requirements, creating documentation and providing business analysis to support the SDIM process. This output produces the correct product delivery to customers and revenue fulfillment. After the proper design of SKU attributes, this role is responsible for data entry into F5s infrastructure ecosystem.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage new offer operational requests
  • Integrate with organizational teams to build and maintain subject matter expertise
  • Responsible for accelerating the time to market for new offers
  • Owning the creation of SDIM design and implementation as well as cross functional requirement documents
  • Support product group initiatives such as new product or offering SKU creation and changes.
  • Creates methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
  • Responsible for teaching best practice and creating resources for enablement
  • Act as an evangelist for the SDIM process across F5 portfolio
  • Responsible for quality of SDIM request
  • Manage the automated request tool
  • Manage the SDIM pipeline and backlog
  • SDIM representative in the Lifecycle Management Framework process
  • Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Process-oriented, mindset of continual improvement
  • Ability to analyze data and provide insights that drive the business
  • Ability to think strategically and see the big picture, analyzing a problem or project from a variety of angles, yet examining specific aspects in significant detail
  • Ability to learn quickly, build consensus and interact effectively with teams—Product Management, cross-functional or vendor
  • Knowledge of business process and change management methodology
  • Strong organizational skills, strong attention to detail and accuracy
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Must have strong data management and data entry skills
  • Experience on any web based reporting tool is a plus
  • Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings)
  • Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and/or applicable experience
  • 1+ years of technical and/or project management work experience in a related field.
  • Experience using business productivity: Microsoft Office products, Google docs, etc. (emphasis in spreadsheets and presentation tools)

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: $88,391.00 - $132,587.00

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 accommodations@f5.com.