Regional AI Sales Lead

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 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.

F5 is seeking a driven and strategically minded Senior Regional Business Manager to lead our growth in AI-driven opportunities across META (Middle East Turkey and Africa) region.

This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI infrastructure national strategic programs and F5s evolving full AI portfolio including AI Infrastructure and AI Security solutions. The ideal candidate will be responsible for working with the most strategic accounts in the region and lead the overall strategic AI Solutions Business.

Were looking for someone whos not only a strong strategic sales hunter but also a connector. Someone with established relationships across AI alliances strategic partners national AI programs and infrastructure vendors who can open doors and help position F5 as a long-term AI enabler in the region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive AI-related sales for F5 across the META region focusing on organizations deploying or planning investments in NVIDIA or similar DPU/GPU-based AI infrastructure.
• Identify and develop opportunities where F5s AI portfolio can play a critical role in securing and scaling AI workloads in modern environments.
• Target strategic AI initiatives across the region especially in sectors such as government defense telecom smart cities and national data infrastructure
• Build and expand strategic relationships with ecosystem players including cloud service providers AI hardware vendors (e.g. NVIDIA) national AI bodies and AI-focused partners.
• Leverage your existing network to open doors and position F5 in early-stage AI projects where our solutions can add value.
• Work closely with internal teams including Sales Engineering Product Partner and Marketing to develop strategic account plans and value-driven proposals.
• Maintain a strong pipeline of AI-related opportunities across the region and deliver on ambitious sales goals aligned with F5s AI growth strategy.
• Represent F5 at key AI summits partner forums and national digital transformation events acting as the regional face of F5s AI strategy.

What Were Looking For:

• 810 years of enterprise sales experience ideally with a mix of infrastructure AI or security solutions with a clear record of hunting and closing large strategic deals.
• Strong understanding of AI infrastructure including LLMs GPUs/DPUs Kubernetes and AI/ML security challenges.
• Proven experience working with or alongside AI ecosystem players such as cloud providers chipset vendors (NVIDIA or similar) and national AI or digital transformation entities.
• A robust network across META-based AI alliances infrastructure leaders or government innovation programs.
• Experience in engaging C-level stakeholders including CIOs Chief AI/Data Officers and transformation leaders.
• Familiarity with F5 products is a plus especially BIG-IP Next NGINX XC BNK and AI Gateway.
• Fluent in English and Arabic preferred

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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 .

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).

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 .