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.
Job Overview
F5 is seeking a visionary and experienced Vice President of Product Experience to lead and elevate our product design organization. As a member of the leadership team, you'll champion a user-centered and innovation-driven approach, ensuring our platforms deliver compelling, streamlined, and scalable user experiences. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role requiring strong expertise in platform product design, the ability to align UX with business objectives, experience incorporating AI-enabled solutions into user experiences, and managing cross-functional teams in global organizations.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the design vision for F5’s cutting-edge platform offerings by integrating artificial intelligence and cultivating a design culture that drives innovation and business success.
Key Responsibilities:
Vision & Strategy
Own and articulate a compelling strategic vision for UX/UI across all F5 platform products, ensuring alignment with broader business goals.
Define and implement a design strategy that supports scalability, user engagement, embedding AI-driven features, and seamless multi-product integration.
Anticipate industry and customer trends, incorporating AI solutions to improve long-term design philosophy and maintain competitive advantage.
Leadership & Team Development
Lead and inspire a cross-functional team of UX designers, researchers, product designers, and AI specialists.
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration at all levels of your team, including the delivery of AI-enhanced experiences.
Balance high-level strategy with hands-on involvement by mentoring team members and guiding AI-specific design efforts when necessary.
Collaboration
Partner closely with product management, engineering, AI development teams, marketing, and data analytics teams to seamlessly embed artificial intelligence into F5's user experience goals.
Advocate for AI-powered design approaches and maintain strong relationships across the organization to foster user-first and tech-friendly collaboration.
AI-Driven User Experiences
Elevate F5’s approach to integrating artificial intelligence into user research, usability testing, and data-driven decision-making.
Design AI-enabled features and interactions that enhance accessibility, personalization, and predictive workflows across products.
Champion the seamless application of machine learning and predictive analytics to elevate user satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Execution
Oversee the end-to-end design process for platform features and AI-powered tools, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with product roadmaps.
Drive the development of a unified design system that supports AI-driven innovation and scaling across product teams.
Deliver measurable impact through enhancements in NPS, adoption, retention, and customer success, with specific focus on outcomes enabled by AI-powered capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
12+ years of experience in UX/UI design, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.
Expertise in platform product design, including embedding artificial intelligence capabilities into products and user workflows.
Proven track record of implementing strategic visions that transformed product user experiences, integrated AI technologies, and drove business outcomes.
Deep knowledge of modern design principles, tools, and frameworks, including experience with design systems.
Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, usability best practices, and accessibility standards, plus familiarity with AI design frameworks and pipelines.
Experience managing, scaling, and mentoring global design teams, particularly in incorporating AI into features.
Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation skills to convey concepts—especially AI-enabled design narratives—to executive stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to balance long-term strategy with day-to-day execution.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in cloud computing, security, or related tech industries, especially with AI integrations.
Knowledge of lean and agile environments, with a focus on iterative product development and AI-enhanced collaboration.
Familiarity with advanced design tools like Figma, InVision, or similar platforms for building AI-enhanced user flows.
Exposure to AI tools, machine learning workflows, and predictive analytics platforms.
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: $311,000.00 - $466,600.00F5 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].
Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in UX/UI design
- At least 5 years in leadership roles
- Expertise in platform product design, including embedding artificial intelligence capabilities into products and user workflows
- Proven track record implementing strategic visions that transformed product user experiences, integrated AI technologies, and drove business outcomes
- Deep knowledge of modern design principles, tools, frameworks, and design systems
- Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, usability best practices, accessibility standards, and AI design frameworks and pipelines
- Experience managing, scaling, and mentoring global design teams, particularly in incorporating AI into features
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation skills for executive stakeholders
- Ability to balance long-term strategy with day-to-day execution
- Experience working in cloud computing, security, or related technology industries, especially with AI integrations
- Knowledge of lean and agile environments with iterative product development and AI-enhanced collaboration
- Familiarity with Figma, InVision, or similar advanced design platforms
- Exposure to AI tools, machine learning workflows, and predictive analytics platforms
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
