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.The Opportunity: Architect the Future of Data-Driven People Strategy at F5 F5 is at a pivotal moment in its evolution, and we know that our success is driven by our people. To accelerate our strategy, we are seeking a trailblazing leader to build our People Analytics function from the ground up. This is more than a leadership role; it is a unique opportunity to be the architect and visionary for how F5 harnesses data and AI to cultivate a world-class, high-performing culture. Reporting to the VP of People Strategy & Experience, you will build the engine that powers our talent decisions. You will craft the narrative behind the numbers, providing trusted, predictive insights that will shape our approach to talent, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. If you are driven to build, innovate, and translate data into tangible business impact, this is your platform. How You'll Make an Impact: Architect the Vision & Strategy: Design and execute a multi-year people analytics roadmap, defining the key questions we need to answer to drive business success. This includes establishing the official KPIs and metrics for the entire People & Culture function and creating a center of excellence known for its proactive, insightful contributions. Be a Strategic Influencer & Storyteller: Translate data into influence. Acting as a core advisor to senior leadership, you will deliver compelling, data driven narratives and quarterly business reviews on topics like talent acquisition effectiveness, employee engagement drivers, DEI progress, and retention forecasts. Your insights will be the catalyst for critical decisions and strategic workforce planning. Build & Inspire a World-Class Team: Lead the global team, developing and mentoring a multi-talented group of analysts. Foster a culture of intense curiosity and collaboration, coaching your team to move beyond technical execution to become strategic consultants and storytellers for their business partners. Champion Our End-to-End Employee Listening Strategy: Own the architecture and execution of how F5 listens to its people. You’ll evolve our ecosystem of feedback tools, from annual engagement surveys and frequent pulses to lifecycle feedback (onboarding, exit). By applying advanced analytics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to qualitative feedback, you will uncover the nuanced story behind the scores, ensuring we are not just hearing our employees, but actively translating their voice into meaningful improvements to the F5 experience. Design the Foundational Data Infrastructure: Architect F5’s single source of truth for people data. You will lead the design and implementation of a scalable and secure data infrastructure, including evaluating and selecting the tech stack (e.g., analytics tools, visualization platforms). A key part of your mission will be to establish robust data governance and privacy protocols to build enterprise-wide trust and create intuitive, self-service dashboards for leaders. Pioneer Advanced Analytics & Ethical AI: Push F5 to the forefront of talent innovation-- go beyond historical reporting to develop predictive models that help us solve our most complex challenges—from identifying key drivers of attrition to forecasting future leadership needs. Champion for ethical AI, ensuring every model is fair, transparent, and explainable, enhancing our capabilities without sacrificing our values. Forge Influential Partnerships & Drive a Data-First Culture: Act as a strategic consultant embedded within the business. You will forge deep partnerships with HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, L&D, etc.), and functional business leaders to understand their challenges and provide tailored analytical support. A core goal will be to elevate data literacy across the company, empowering leaders at all levels to make smarter, data-informed people decisions. What You'll Bring to the Table: Proven Experience: A strong track record (10+ years) in people analytics or a related quantitative field, with demonstrated success in building and leading high-impact analytics teams or functions. Technical & Statistical Depth: Deep expertise in statistical modeling, data analysis, and visualization, with proficiency in tools like SQL, R, or Python, and BI platforms such as Tableau or Power BI. Strategic Business Acumen: The ability to connect data to business outcomes and a strong understanding of the entire employee lifecycle and HR processes (experience with Workday is a major plus). AI & Machine Learning Savvy: Practical experience applying AI/ML techniques to solve real-world business problems and a passion for staying on the cutting edge of technology. Exceptional Storytelling Skills: An innate ability to translate complex quantitative findings into clear, concise, and actionable recommendations for executive-level audiences. Preferred Qualifications: Experience thriving in a fast-paced technology or software company. Hands-on experience building data warehouses and establishing robust data governance frameworks. Familiarity with Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related discipline). 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: $186,600.00 - $279,800.00F5 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 OpportunityIt 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 accommodations@f5.com.
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