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.
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.
Role Overview:
The Human Resources Business Partner is a professional, individual-contributor role within People & Culture that serves as a strategic thought partner to leadership, typically at the VP & Director level. This role is designed to support enterprise-level transformation, providing deep expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, and culture.
The HRBP operates with broad scope and influence, partnering with senior leaders to translate business strategy into people strategies that drive measurable outcomes. This role is intentionally non-managerial, enabling full focus on complex, high-impact work without dilution from people-management responsibilities.
Sounds interesting? Read On!
What You’ll Do:
Strategic Partnership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, providing counsel on organizational effectiveness, leadership dynamics, and workforce strategy.
- Translate business priorities into long-term people and talent strategies aligned to F5’s transformation agenda.
- Anticipate risks and opportunities by looking around corners, offering clear, data-informed recommendations to senior leaders.
Organizational Design & Transformation
- Lead regional-level organizational design efforts, including operating model changes, restructures, role clarity, and decision-rights.
- Partner with leaders through periods of significant change, ensuring clarity, alignment, and sustainable adoption.
- Diagnose systemic organizational issues and design solutions that improve speed, effectiveness, and talent outcomes.
Talent & Leadership Effectiveness
- Shape talent strategy for critical roles and leadership populations, including talent density, succession, and pipeline health.
- Coach senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance, and navigating complexity.
- Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions.
Data-Driven Insight & Influence
- Use workforce data, business metrics, and external perspective to inform executive decision-making.
- Present insights and recommendations with executive-level clarity, including tradeoffs, risks, and expected outcomes.
Culture & HR Capability Leadership
- Champion F5 culture and leadership behaviors that support business strategy and values.
- Influence and mentor other HRBPs through thought leadership and modeling strong strategic partnership.
- Contribute to the evolution of People & Culture practices, frameworks, and ways of working.
Scope & Impact
- Operates with enterprise-level scope, addressing the most complex, ambiguous, and high-risk people challenges.
- Influences outcomes across multiple functions or business units.
- Focuses on durable, transformational impact rather than transactional HR delivery.
Role Design Notes
- Individual Contributor role with no direct people-management responsibilities.
- Designed to provide deep, embedded VP-level partnership during periods of transformation.
- Success is measured by business outcomes, organizational health, and leadership effectiveness.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred.
- Typically, 5+ years of progressive HR experience in complex, fast-changing environments.
- Experience working across Asia Region.
- Demonstrated expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, and executive consulting.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to business outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders without formal authority.
What You’ll Get
- Hybrid working mode
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Recognitions and Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program
- Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and cool perks
- Culture of Giving Back
- Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion Interest Groups
Apply if you believe your own unique capabilities can contribute to the success of this role and our organization!
#LI-SP5
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.
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].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience in complex, fast-changing environments
- Experience working across the Asia Region
- Expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, and executive consulting
- Strong business acumen connecting people strategy to business outcomes
- Ability to influence senior leaders without formal authority
F5 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about F5 and has not been reviewed or approved by F5.
-
Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and a discount ESPP commonly included. Pay packages for many technical roles are considered competitive when equity is taken into account.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that increases with tenure, sick time, paid holidays, and paid family leave are prominently featured. Additional programs like volunteer time and periodic wellness long weekends are highlighted as part of the time-off ecosystem.
-
Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans include travel support for specific care (such as reproductive and gender‑affirming services) and mental health resources, alongside comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. These elements are presented as part of a broad, inclusive approach to healthcare.
F5 Insights
What We Do
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device. F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
