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Principal Technical Alliance Manager

F5
Seattle, USA
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Alliance Strategy: Own portfolio priorities, governance, investment tradeoffs, and multi-year business plans. Align partner capabilities with F5 corporate, product, and go-to-market priorities, and represent ecosystem insights to senior leadership.
  • Joint Solutions and Roadmaps: Identify high-value customer use cases and lead integrated solutions through roadmap alignment, technical validation, launch, and lifecycle management.
  • Executive Relationships: Build trusted relationships with F5 and partner executives, product leaders, and engineering teams; establish sponsorship, governance, and accountability.
  • Joint Go-to-Market: Lead positioning, enablement, co-marketing, field engagement, lighthouse customer initiatives, and sales plays that generate qualified pipeline and accelerate adoption.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate resources across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, and partner teams without direct authority; resolve competing priorities and maintain momentum.
  • Business Performance: Define metrics and executive operating cadences; assess alliance health, solution adoption, ecosystem engagement, pipeline, partner-influenced opportunities, and return on investment.
  • Ecosystem Development and Thought Leadership: Track technology, market, and competitive shifts; identify emerging AI and ecosystem opportunities; and advise senior leaders on partnership strategy and alliance best practices.
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Ability to develop alliance strategies, business cases, joint value propositions, operating models, and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, application delivery, security, data, and AI ecosystems and the processes required to launch and scale integrated solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to shape strategic direction, influence executive decisions, and lead through complexity and ambiguity.
  • Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and distributed cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in Salesforce, Tableau, Microsoft 365, and AI-enabled tools.

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in technology alliances, strategic business development, product partnerships, or a related enterprise technology role.
  • 7+ years leading complex technology partnerships with measurable product, customer, adoption, pipeline, or business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-company initiatives involving Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing from strategy through execution.
  • Experience with enterprise infrastructure, security, data, or AI ecosystem companies; experience with Dell Technologies or another global technology provider is highly valued.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage and influence executive stakeholders internally and externally.
  • Demonstrated judgment in using AI-enabled tools responsibly, including validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree is a plus.
  • Why Join Us:
  • Strategic Impact: Shape high-impact alliances and translate partner innovation into differentiated customer and business outcomes.
  • Leadership Visibility: Advise senior leaders and influence strategic decisions across F5 and partner organizations.
  • Growth Opportunity: Help advance F5's ecosystem strategy across AI, security, infrastructure, and data platforms.
  • If you are a strategic technology alliance leader who can shape portfolio direction, influence across organizational boundaries, and turn complex partnerships into differentiated solutions and measurable business outcomes, we invite you to apply for this principal-level opportunity.
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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: $177,800.00 - $266,600.00
  • 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 [email protected].

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree is a plus.
  • 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.

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