Senior Employee Communications Mgr (Administrative)
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.
At F5, we live and breathe our BeF5 and LeadF5 behaviors. We work together to achieve extraordinary impact, value the diversity of ideas different backgrounds can bring, and we like to have fun while we deliver great communications support our business and our culture.
This role is responsible for developing and measuring the impact of F5's People & Culture (HR) communications, including communications related to culture, benefits, compensation, and employee engagement. The successful candidate will be strategic and creative in their approach and have the ability to transform complex information into engaging content that drives clarity and engagement. Strategic communications planning, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and using a distinct voice and tone to create measurable engagement is a must. Change management experience is an essential skill set in our fast-paced industry. Great attention to detail, a global mindset, and strong business acumen, preferably in the HR space, is essential.
Primary Responsibilities:
Create and execute comprehensive communications and change management plans that support awareness, understanding, and adoption of F5's People & Culture strategy and programs.
Create engaging, creative content for internal and external communications through both digital and traditional platforms.
Identify and create strategic messaging for use in key internal and external events related to employee-facing initiatives.
Provide counsel and insights for senior leaders on the People & Culture team that help align communications to business priorities across F5.
Create and execute strategic change management communications around major launches for compensation, benefits, performance management, and other key areas of F5's employee experience.
Partner with stakeholders across the People & Culture organization and other teams throughout F5 to develop and execute comprehensive communications plans.
Support the Chief People Officer with leadership communications, as needed.
Other Responsibilities:
Leverage company standards (e.g., comms best practices, brand alignment) to build plans, processes, and timelines to support an annual program of communications for the People & Culture organization.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Proven ability to create, execute, and measure communication and change strategies from start to finish.
Experienced in global change management communications with extraordinary impact across diverse employee audiences
Excellent writing and editing skills, including development of original content and the ability to construct concise and well-written memos, narratives, and other executive-level communications.
Passionate storyteller and culture champion across a range of digital and traditional channels.
Globally aware with experience collaborating across countries and cultures.
Qualifications:
8+ years of progressive experience in HR communications, with a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives, enterprise change, and managing high-impact projects.
Exceptional strategic comms and change planning abilities, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Highly collaborative with an ownership mindset and the ability to influence and partner with stakeholders
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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: $153,469.00 - $230,203.00F5 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 accommodations@f5.com.
