Sr Product and Innovation Communications Manager

What You’ll Do 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.
Translate complex topics such as AI‑accelerated risk, application security, application delivery, vulnerability management, resilience, customer trust, and services innovation into clear, credible narratives for external audiences.
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.
Help shape F5’s point of view on emerging cybersecurity and technology trends, focusing on CISOs, CIOs, technical decision‑makers, and enterprise customers.
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.
Ensure communications are aligned to F5’s corporate narrative, product strategy, market positioning, and broader go‑to‑market priorities.
Bring strong editorial judgment to determine when, where, and how F5 should show up externally on priority topics.
What You’ll Bring 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.
Proven ability to support senior executives, especially technical, security, product, or services leaders.
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.
Strong judgment and comfort working on sensitive topics, including customer trust, vulnerability communications, issues management, regulatory‑adjacent narratives, and security‑related matters.
Ability to operate independently while staying tightly aligned to business priorities, executive direction, and corporate narrative.
Executive presence and confidence working directly with senior leaders and cross‑functional partners.
Strong strategic discipline, with the ability to distinguish between content creation and communications strategy.
A collaborative working style and the ability to build trust across teams with different priorities, perspectives, and operating rhythms.
A high bar for accuracy, clarity, and credibility.
Preferred Qualifications 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.
Experience with AI security, application security, application delivery, cloud, hybrid multicloud, APIs, threat intelligence, or resilience topics.
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 Building external narratives that are technically grounded, strategically aligned, relevant to CISOs, CIOs, and enterprise customers, and that provide clarity, credibility, and consistency on security and innovation topics.
Compensation Annual base pay: $174,400.00 – $261,600.00. Additional incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits may also be offered.
Equal Employment Opportunity F5 is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to 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. Accommodation requests are voluntary and can be submitted to accommodations@f5.com.
Remote/Hybrid Work Hybrid: Employees within 30 commutable miles of an F5 office must work from the office a minimum of 30 business days per quarter.
Remote: Employees primarily work from a designated home location but may come to an F5 office or travel to off‑site locations as needed.

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