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 seeking a skilled and experienced Program Manager to join the Business Transformation Office (BTO)! The BTO is an enterprise function that drives initiatives tied to F5s strategic priorities by providing program management, organizational change management, and business process optimization. This role specifically will lead strategic programs and projects that will transform and optimize the enterprise. You will be responsible for program strategy, development, and execution of enterprise-wide initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in program and project management with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex programs on time and within budget. The unique benefit and scope of this enterprise-wide role is the acceleration of delivering value at scale to realize F5s transformation efforts. This person has high emotional intelligence, strong critical-thinking, strength working cross-functionally, and an ability to influence and lead others to achieve program success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure that initiatives have clear outcomes, scope, success criteria, and alignment with overall business objectives.
• Design, build and maintain an overall program execution plan and roadmap to support and implement activities related to people, process, and technology that span across multiple business functions.
• Identify workstreams and monitor the execution of the program per scope, schedule, resourcing, and budget
• Establish team structure for each workstream, providing direction to project leads and coordinators on various workstreams to manage scope, timelines, deliverables, and risks to the overall program
• Create and monitor measures of success / KPIs for the program
• Partner with Change Management to identify a change management strategy and plan to ensure business readiness, engagement, and adoption
• Establish governance structure, handling any issues and proactively mitigating risks
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across various business units and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Serve as an escalation point on risks, issues, and decisions, course-correcting as needed
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders and leadership on program status, milestones, and key performance metrics.
• Establish program rhythm of business including communications, status reports, and readouts to stakeholders and leadership
• Design and develop executive-level presentations as needed
• Bring an outstanding blend of business and technical acumen
• Ensure the use of program management best practices, methodologies, and tools to enhance project execution efficiency and effectiveness.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

   

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Demonstrated knowledge of program and project mana