F5
Sr Product and Innovation Communications Manager
Seattle, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$116k-$174kDetected 35 days ago
CybersecurityLoad BalancingLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This role sits at the intersection of executive communications, cybersecurity storytelling, product and services positioning, customer trust, and strategic narrative development.
- The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Responsibilities
- As Senior Product and Innovation Communications Manager, you will develop and execute external communications programs that strengthen F5's voice in security, resiliency, product innovation, AI, customer trust, and application delivery.
- Lead strategic external communications for F5's Security and Resiliency narrative, including thought leadership, executive visibility, customer trust, services evolution, and regulatory-adjacent topics.
- Develop executive communications for senior technical and business leaders across product, security, services, marketing, and customer-facing functions.
- Create high-quality executive communications materials, including bylined articles, blogs, talking points, LinkedIn posts, keynote and session abstracts, media narratives, prep briefs, customer communications, and internal alignment documents.
- Partner with Product, Services, Legal, Public Affairs, Security, Marketing, and Communications stakeholders to ensure external narratives are accurate, aligned, and strategically useful.
- Support issues management and customer trust communications related to security, vulnerabilities, regulatory-adjacent topics, and other sensitive external matters.
- Build strong relationships with executives and subject matter experts to identify timely, differentiated thought leadership opportunities.
- Proven ability to support senior executives, especially technical, security, product, or services leaders.
- Executive presence and confidence working directly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- A collaborative working style and the ability to build trust across teams with different priorities, perspectives, and operating rhythms.
Requirements
- 8-12+ years of experience in communications, public relations, executive communications, product communications, corporate communications, or related fields.
- Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise technology, cloud, infrastructure, AI, public policy, regulated industries, or other technically complex environments.
- Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to move across formats, audiences, and levels of technical depth.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical and security concepts into clear, customer-facing narratives.
- Ability to operate independently while staying tightly aligned to business priorities, executive direction, and corporate narrative.
- Strong strategic discipline, with the ability to distinguish between content creation and communications strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting cybersecurity, product, innovation, trust, or resilience narratives at an enterprise technology company.
- Familiarity with CISO, CIO, security practitioner, and technical decision-maker audiences.
- Prior experience supporting executive thought leadership programs, media narratives, customer communications, or high-visibility corporate moments.
- Experience partnering with Legal, Public Affairs, Product, Services, and Security teams on external communications.
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous, fast-moving topics.
- Success in This Role Looks Like
- 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.
Compensation
- $116,000.00 - $174,000.00
- 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.
Benefits
- https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
- This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.
Company info
- Help shape F5's point of view on emerging cybersecurity and technology trends, with a focus on what matters most to CISOs, CIOs, technical decision-makers, and enterprise customers.
- At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life.
- We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
- That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better.
Equal 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.
- 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.
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