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Position Summary: In partnership with the Senior Director of Analyst Relations, this role focuses on supporting efforts of IT industry analyst relations staff in establishing, nurturing and building relationships with technology industry analysts to maintain and enhance F5's credibility and thought leadership with these constituents.

Attractions of the Job: This role provides an individual with the right mix of curiosity, follow-through, and strategic mindset with an opportunity to work with the tech industry’s smartest and most critical minds in cloud computing, security and enterprise IT. This position contributes to highly visible engagements, deliverables and outcomes inside F5 that often have the potential to materially impact F5’s entire business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• May manage second- and third-tier analyst relationships and reactive requests
• Supports AR influential excellence efforts (30% of time)
• Maintains database of analyst contacts and tracks engagement history with targeted analysts; generates metrics from related data
• Assists in the review and editing of analyst-targeted content in partnership with content owners across F5
• Participates in periodic quantitative evaluation of analyst influence to support targeting methodologies
• Monitors analyst social media presence and activity
• Work in partnership with AR staff to collect and organize analyst research and then disseminate knowledge derived from research among key internal audiences
• Assists AR staff in project management related to F5 vendor or product ratings and industry analyst reports that rank F5’s products and services, including Gartner Magic Quadrants/Critical Capabilities and Forrester Waves
• Interacts directly with analysts and other analyst firm staff in scheduling and coordinating engagements
• Tracks paid analyst resource allocation and utilization
• Tracks analyst firm business developments and changes in research agendas and analyst coverage
• Contributes to outbound analyst-facing activity streams (35% of time)

• Assist with research, guidance and insights into the business intelligence & corporate strategy team
• Supports customer evidence-related activities for AR, such as customer reference identification
• Additional analyst relations duties (35% of time)
• Contributes to AR activities around product launches, events and announcements

Note: The percentages of time noted above are current estimates and may change at any time depending on the business needs of the company.

Other Responsibilities:

• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience in presentation and graphic design
• Knowledge of enterprise technology
• Persuasive storytelling
• Excellent writing and editing abilities
• Ability to distill & summarize significant elements from lengthy technical articles and conversations (without using generative AI/chatbot tools)
• Understanding of the IT analyst business landscape

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• The individual must be articulate, professional and have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with a wide range of personalities
• Prior exposure to IT industry analyst relation practices preferred, or related professional responsibilities in managing long-term relationships of persuasion within a context of technical or complex fields
• Self-motivator and entrepreneurial spirit
• Naturally curious

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Job requires the ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 15% of the time spent traveling.
• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone & video conference, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

Benefits:

We provide competitive salaries, a world-class benefits package, including 100% of the premium for employee medical, dental and vision insurance, highly subsidized premiums for dependent coverage, 401K match, employee stock purchase plan,18 days paid time off within the first year and 9 paid holidays, life insurance, short- & long-term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and much more.

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The 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 U.S. base pay range for this position is: $60,480.00 - $90,720.00

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 Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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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].