Dir, Product Mgmt, Federal & Certifications

Reston; Seattle; San Jose
Full-time
$227,900.00 - $341,900.00
Posted Nov 13, 2026

Skills

Agile
Compliance
Cybersecurity
Leadership
Product Management
Workday

Job description

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.

Position Summary

The Director of Product Management for Federal and Certifications leads F5’s global certification roadmap and federal product strategy. In this critical leadership role, you will define and execute the product compliance and certification vision across the F5 portfolio—including BIG-IP, NGINX, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services. You will serve as the executive bridge connecting product development, government sales, security architecture, accredited testing laboratories, and federal oversight authorities.

This role ensures F5 products achieve and sustain critical certifications (such as FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria, DoDIN APL, and FedRAMP / StateRAMP) to accelerate revenue across global public sector and regulated enterprise markets.

Primary Responsibilities

•Strategic Leadership & Roadmap : Define and drive the multi-year public sector and security compliance product roadmap across hardware, software, and SaaS platforms.

•Portfolio Architecture Integration : Partner with Core Engineering, Platform Security, and Product Operations to embed certification requirements natively into Agile DevSecOps release cycles.

•Regulatory & Agency Engagement : Serve as F5's primary product authority with regulatory authorities, evaluation laboratories, the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), and federal program offices.

•Business Enablement & Revenue Impact : Collaborate closely with Public Sector Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Channel Partners to remove certification friction and open pipeline opportunities.

•Vendor & Laboratory Management : Oversee commercial partnerships, contracts, and delivery schedules with external third-party assessment organizations (3PAOs) and testing laboratories.

•Cross-Functional Governance : Establish visibility metrics, risk mitigation protocols, and status reporting on active evaluations for executive leadership and key stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

•Public Sector & Federal Standards : Deep operational familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-2/3, Common Criteria (cPP / NDcPP), FedRAMP (Moderate/High), CSfC, DoDIN APL, and Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

•Cloud & Security Architecture : Broad understanding of modern application delivery, API security, microservices, hybrid-cloud networking, cryptography, and containerized architectures.

•Executive Influence & Collaboration : Proven ability to align diverse engineering teams, commercial product managers, legal teams, and sales executives around common compliance milestones.

•Program & Release Orchestration : Skilled in translating dense regulatory requirements into actionable product backlog items without sacrificing development velocity or user experience.

•Strategic Trade-off Evaluation : Demonstrated ability to weigh time-to-market, evaluation costs, engineering complexity, and revenue impact when prioritizing certification efforts.

Qualifications

•Required Education & Experience : Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Business, or equivalent practical experience; 10 years of product management, security engineering, or regulatory certification experience.

•Required Leadership Experience : 5 years leading cross-functional initiatives or teams in public sector compliance, enterprise security, or platform engineering.

•Required Industry Experience : Proven track record successfully taking enterprise hardware, software, or SaaS products through FIPS, Common Criteria, or FedRAMP authorizations.

•Required Citizenship / Clearance : U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal compliance and regulatory interaction requirements; active or prior U.S. Government security clearance is a strong plus.

•Preferred Education : Master’s degree or MBA; direct background working with DoD, Federal Civilian agencies, or intelligence community programs.

•Preferred Professional Certifications : Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or FedRAMP Assessor credentials.

•Preferred Technical Domain Experience : Technical familiarity with Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), Web Application Firewalls (WAF), API gateway technologies, or Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architectures.

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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: $227,900.00 - $341,900.00

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 .