Transformation Lead

Overview

F5 is seeking a visionary Transformation Lead, Employee Experience to join our EX team. This high-impact role defines, plans, and executes strategic, cross-functional programs that transform and elevate the F5 employee digital experience. You will serve as the strategic bridge between business stakeholders (People, Finance, Legal) and engineering teams, driving multi-system initiatives focused on modernization, automation, and platform consolidation across core employee systems (e.g., Workday, Service Now, Salesforce).

Everything we do centers around people. We obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better, and we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

• Strategic Program Leadership:
  Own and lead the end-to-end delivery of the most complex and high-priority EX programs, ensuring alignment with the EX pillar strategy and key business outcomes for People, Finance, and Legal.
• Vision & Roadmap Execution:
  Define the strategic roadmap for platform modernization and consolidation (e.g., consolidating disparate tools onto core platforms like Service Now or Workday Extend). Translate this vision into detailed, executable program plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration:
  Manage dependencies and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams (Full Stack, Workday Integrations, Platform Services), functional leaders, and business partners. Act as the primary escalation point for program risks and roadblocks.
• Program Governance & Reporting:
  Establish and enforce rigorous program governance, including regular steering committee updates, KPI tracking, budget management, and transparent communication of progress, risks, and changes to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Program Design & Scoping:
  Partner with Product Managers and Architecture teams to define scope, objectives, success metrics, and high-level technical approach for major EX transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with engineering standards.
• Program Management:
  Implement and champion Agile and Program Management best practices across EX initiatives, driving continuous improvement in delivery speed, quality, and predictability.
• Change Management Advocacy:
  Work with change management and internal communications teams to ensure successful adoption of new EX platforms and services by the global employee base.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in managing complex, global technology programs, with a focus on ERP, HRIS, or core ITSM transformation.
• 5+ years of direct experience managing programs related to Employee Experience (EX) or digital workplace initiatives.
• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary projects involving major enterprise platforms like Workday, Service Now, Oracle, or Salesforce.
• Expertise in formal program management methodologies (e.g., PMP, PgMP) and ability to apply Agile principles in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Exceptional leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage program budgets, forecast resource needs, and manage vendor/consulting partner relationships effectively.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to translate business objectives into a comprehensive, phased program plan and measure success through business impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).

The Job Description is a general representation of responsibilities and requirements and may not be all-inclusive. The annual base pay for this position is: $ - $. F5 maintains broad salary ranges to account for variations in knowledge, location, and market conditions. You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at:  F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by law. F5 offers reasonable accommodations for candidates. To request an accommodation, contact

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