Manager, Investor Relations

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Position: Manager, Investor Relations

Reports to: VP of Investor Relations
 

The Manager of Investor Relations (IR) is responsible for supporting the development and execution of F5’s global investor relations program. This role reports to and partners closely with the VP of IR, engaging with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate communication of F5’s strategy, financial performance, and value proposition to the investor community.

Key Responsibilities

Investor Relations Strategy and Execution

• Collaborate with the VP of IR to develop and execute F5’s investor relations strategy, annual operating plan, and budget to ensure alignment with corporate objectives.
• Represent the company in presentations, meetings, and discussions with investors, analysts, and other key stakeholders to educate them on F5’s strategy, financial results, and outlook.
• Manage the creation of IR materials, including the annual shareholder letter, earnings call scripts, investor presentations, news releases, and SEC filings to ensure effective shareholder communication.
• Assist in the development of key investment messages and create content for digital platforms, including the Investor Relations website, ensuring the site is accessible, accurate and current.
• Organize, execute and staff investor engagement activities, including conference calls, investor and analyst meetings, roadshows, and site visits.
• Support strategic investor targeting and outreach, leveraging data-driven techniques to identify high-priority investors and build relationships.
• Support planning and execution of F5’s Analyst and Investor Meetings.
• Advocate for F5’s positions with institutional investors, proxy advisors, and ESG-focused stakeholders in advance of the annual shareholder meetings to influence voting outcomes.
• Monitor shareholder proposals, emerging sentiment, and ESG trends to integrate investor feedback into company strategies.
• Provide reports summarizing shareholder feedback, market sentiment, industry trends, and the company’s relative stock performance.
• Monitor peer company news and financial reporting and provide concise summaries to F5 internal audiences.
• Track sell-side analyst estimates and models, flagging potential anomalies to the VP of IR.
• Conduct and present analyses of investor perceptions, stock performance, brokerage analyst opinions, and competitive intelligence to senior leadership and the Board of Directors.
• Partner with teams across the organization, including Finance, Legal, Communications, and ESG, to ensure consistent and accurate messaging to all stakeholders.
• Source, secure and work with third-party vendors as needed including managing the F5 procurement process.
• Identify, test and put into production AI-driven tools and process to drive efficiency and clarity.
• Monitor for and report on early signs of shareholder activism.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on investor communication, shareholder engagement, and messaging consistency across external and internal communications.
• Accompany executives to investor and analyst engagements, ensuring compliance with disclosure laws.
• Contribute to strategic projects, including M&A analysis and evaluation of initiatives impacting shareholder value (e.g., capital allocation, ESG initiatives).
• Partner with the communications team to assist with disclosures, crisis communications, and special events, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications and Skills

• At least 5 years’ experience in investor relations, finance, marketing, planning and development, or corporate communications for a public company or consulting agency with public company clients.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, corporate strategy, and public company reporting requirements.
• Proven ability to communicate complex information concisely to a variety of audiences, including investors, analysts, and senior leaders.
• Experience developing strategic presentations/documents and analyzing key financial metrics, valuation scenarios, and stock market trends.
• Excellent collaboration and leadership skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Steller organizational skills.
• College degree required, with a master's degree highly desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills, superior intellect, and an outstanding ability to communicate using these qualities and skills.
• An energetic, efficient, and resourceful team player and individual contributor.
• An active and effective leader.
• A person with an insatiable appetite to learn

Professional Development

• Stay current on economic, industry, regulatory, and market trends, as well as best practices in investor relations and corporate governance.

Location

Ideally Seattle but not a must.

Travel

Must have the ability to travel as necessary to represent F5 at financial conferences, trade and customer events, predominantly with the U.S.

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.

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 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].