Sr. Manager, Business Operation - Process

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. Sr. Manager, Process Engineering, & Strategy Management     Position Summary     F5 is seeking a Sr. Manager, Process Engineering, & Strategy Management to lead how engineering work is designed, standardized, and run across the organization. Engineering at F5 spans products, platforms, and geographies. What has not kept pace is a shared operating system: consistent standards for planning, execution, documentation, and measurement. The result is uneven process quality, tool sprawl, and too much tribal knowledge.     This leader will partner with Product and cross-functional teams to design organization-wide strategies, define the standards those strategies require, audit compliance, and embed consistent processes into the tools people already use. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and internal technology and reports to the VP, Engineering and Strategy. You will translate leadership intent into an agenda, run the cadence that keeps the organization accountable, prepare decision-ready materials, and drive follow-through across Technical Program Management, AI Enablement, Tools & Data Visualization, Product, and the engineering organizations they serve.     This role focuses on workflow and systems design rather than running delivery programs. Success comes from creating scalable process standards, turning those standards into business and tool requirements, enabling the teams that implement them, and building a Process Engineering function that can audit adoption and improve the system over time. You will hire and lead a team spanning tooling product management, UI/UX for internal platforms, and process and data audit.     You will   Establish process principles, standards, and roadmaps that guide planning, execution, documentation, measurement, and continuous improvement across product and platform engineering.   Partner with Product and cross-functional leaders to design strategies that are practical to adopt — then audit compliance and close the gaps.   Translate process intent into tool requirements, workflows, and guardrails so the standard way of working is the default way of working in Jira, Confluence, internal platforms, and BI surfaces.   Serve as a strategic thought partner to the VP, Engineering and Strategy: frame choices, surface tradeoffs, facilitate leadership discussions, and follow through until outcomes have owners.   Drive alignment across Technical Program Management, AI Enablement, Tools & Data Visualization, Product, and engineering leadership without relying solely on reporting lines.   Build, coach, and set the bar for a new Process Engineering team spanning tooling product management, internal UI/UX, and process and data audit.   Champion change, enablement, and a lightweight governance model so standards scale — and unused process gets retired.

Strategy, operating cadence, and executive partnership   Design and run the operating rhythm for Engineering Operations and Strategy — staff meetings, quarterly planning, initiative reviews, and leadership communications — so priorities stay visible and accountable.   Translate organizational priorities into actionable plans with clear goals, workstreams, milestones, and owners.   Prepare decision-oriented reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership; improve the quality of performance discussions rather than adding