Senior Employee Relations Partner

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 Senior Employee Relations Partner (Fixed-Term) is a temporary role created to support increased Employee Relations demand and ensure business continuity. This position will partner closely with business leaders, HR Business Partners, and Legal to conduct internal HR investigations and ensure the fair, respectful, and consistent treatment of employees in alignment with F5 behaviors, values, and policies.

This role provides deep expertise in employee relations, investigations, and performance management across all levels of the organization and serves as a steward of F5’s employment policies and practices in the handling of sensitive matters.

*** This is a fixed-term position intended to address near‑term capacity needs. ***

• Conduct HR investigations, including fact gathering, analysis, documentation, and recommendations; partner with internal employment counsel as needed

• Maintain accurate and complete ER and investigation documentation

• Provide consultation, coaching, and guidance to leaders and HRBPs on employee behavior, performance concerns, and corrective actions

• Interpret and apply company policies, employment law, and regulations to ER matters

• Educate leaders and HRBPs on proactive ER practices, performance management, feedback delivery, and inclusion

• Identify trends and drive training, systems, and process improvements

• Lead or support special ER‑related projects as needed

• Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and report violations

• Experience working in a high‑volume, fast‑paced environment, preferably in a technology company

• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and relationship‑building skills

• Ability to advise leaders at all levels without direct authority

• Comfortable operating independently and collaboratively in a distributed environment

• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and change

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow‑through

• Strong knowledge of applicable federal and state employment and labor laws

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 8+ years of HR or investigations experience

• Standard office environment with computer and phone use

• Periodic on‑call availability and work outside normal business hours may be required

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: $ - $

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  F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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.

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