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Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Solutions Architect - Prisma Cloud - UK

Job Description

Your Career

The Prisma Cloud Solutions Architect is our authority in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) and other public cloud environments. You are the “go to” resource for customer interactions that exceed standard systems engineering support requirements.

You will be tasked with bringing the benefits of Prisma Cloud, the industry’s only comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform, to customers in the UK. Prisma Cloud integrates capabilities from the world’s most innovative security startups and delivers them on an enhanced platform to provide market-leading functionality across all our individual modules. From container security to threat detection to web application and API security, security teams benefit from best-in-class protection.

The Prisma Cloud Solutions Architect role is a technical role that directly supports sales delivery of quota. You will be measured by your expertise and your ability to lead to customer successes. There is also a requirement for close interaction with Product Management teams, Consulting Engineering teams to ensure that we continue to out-innovate our competition.

Your Impact

  • Present and position the Prisma Cloud platform’s benefits and unique differentiators to customers at all levels in the customer including engineering team members whether they be in the security team, DevOps, application developers, cloud infrastructure owners or the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team or the CISO, CTO or CIO 
  • Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape in respect to cloud native deployments
  • Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
  • Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value ultimately proving value as early as possible in the sales lifecycle
  • Help customers adopt the Prisma Cloud platform, a cloud security offering from Palo Alto Networks
  • Be the technical voice of sales for all things related to security and compliance in cloud native applications deployment on premises or in the Public Cloud (Alicloud, AWS, Azure, Oracle and GCP)
  • Be an evangelist and importantly a Trusted Advisor to customers helping them to further bring Security, DevOps, and SecOps together (DevSecOps)
  • Write code/scripts as needed or be able to learn if you don’t
  • Run Proof-of-Value (POVs) to ensure the customers’ requirements are met in alignment with their vision of success and exceeded where possible thanks to Prisma Cloud’s Cloud-Native Security Platform 
  • Work with product management, customer success, technical marketing and R&D to build requirements,product features and technical solutions  for our customers and provide feedback from customers as well as delivering product future insights for customers
  • Provide design consultation and standard methodology mentorship for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the pre-sales process for strategic opportunities
  • Assist the Channel Systems Engineers with partner enablement and lead generation activities
  • Help develop relationships with Born-in-Cloud (BiC) partners who will are essential when working with our transformative customers
  • Work with Prisma Cloud Technical Sales Managers to build strategic technical short term & long term plans for their target identified accounts
  • Develop methods to acquire new customers and nurture existing customers expanding and transforming with Prisma Cloud

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 3+ years experience in a customer facing role in solution architecture or pre-sales
  • Proven hands-on experience of public cloud, containers (Kubernetes preferred), DevOps 
  • Demonstrable experience in securing applications deployed using cloud native compute and deployment services - Helping customers achieve industry and regulatory compliance in addition to some experience of implementing standards such as the NIST 800-190, CIS Benchmarks for Kubernetes, Docker and Linux - CIS benchmarks for AWS, Azure, GCP including GKE are also desired as well as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, NIST CSF and SOC
  • Experience of building or at least modifying container orchestrator YAML deployments
  • Experience of working with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) solutions such as Terraform, CloudFormation or ARM templates is desirable
  • Experience of working with customers, demonstrating strong communication and problem solving skills

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Major Account Manager - Healthcare ISVs

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Your Career

The Major Account Manager partners with our customers to secure their entire digital experience. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.  This role is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. 

We know the SASE opportunity is massive. Our solutions are best-in-breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner who can create a truly zero trust based security architecture. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that.

Your Impact

  • As a Major Account Manager,  you will drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
  • Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers
  • Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
  • Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
  • Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
  • Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
  • Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
  • Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
  • Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
  • Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
  • Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Strategic Account Manager - Industry/ Manufacturing

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Your Career

The  Strategic Account Manager partners with our customers to secure their entire digital experience. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.  This role is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. You’re responsible for leading and driving new engagements within our largest revenue producing clients. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re 

We know the SASE opportunity is massive. Our solutions are best-in-breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that.

Your Impact

  • You will own revenue expansion within Palo Alto Networks’ largest clients
  • You will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
  • Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for our customers
  • Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
  • Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
  • Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
  • Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
  • Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
  • Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
  • Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
  • Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
  • Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction
  • Proficiency in German and English language skills 

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Solutions Consultant ( Enterprise - NY/NJ )

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey.  You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

  • Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
  • Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
  • Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
  • Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
  • Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
  • Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
  • Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
  • Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
  • Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
  • Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
  • Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role - prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
  • Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
  • Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
  • Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • Proficient in English

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Business Development Director, Law and Insurance (Unit 42)

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Your Career

The Unit 42 Senior Manager of Business Development, Law & Insurance is responsible for growing demand for Unit 42 services from top global cybersecurity law firms and insurance carriers. This person will have a strong understanding of the incident response services market landscape, value proposition for clients, go-to-market, as well as how these services are sourced through engagement with law and insurance partners. Candidates should have a track record of building and nurturing relationships with key decision makers at law firms and insurance carriers.

This position is full-time and can be remote. 

Your Impact

  • Increase number of engagements referred to Unit 42 from law firms and/or insurance carriers and expand presence
  • Establish new and deepen existing relationships with key stakeholders at target law firms and insurance carriers
  • Develop and curate thought leadership relevant to this market to further establish Unit 42 as a market leader
  • Perform Quarterly Business Reviews and/or cyber threat landscape briefings with partner firms and carriers 
  • Work with Unit 42 Consulting and the extended Palo Alto Networks go-to-market teams to develop and leverage resources to engage and activate partners 
  • Develop tailored value propositions and per-partner agreements to support increased activation and demand

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Substantial professional experience in cybersecurity advisory and consultative sales 
  • Experience working with law firms and in-house counsel supporting incident response, risk management and digital forensic services engagements
  • Established industry relationships with key decision-makers across all levels of partner and prospect law firms
  • Understanding and experience with insurance claims management and panel placements
  • Experience in working collaboratively to represent a portfolio of services to stakeholders within a law firm and law firm clientele
  • Understanding of cybersecurity regulations and the important role lawyers and insurance carriers play in incident response
  • Highly effective relationship/partner development skills
  • Demonstrated success in developing and implementing go-to-market strategies, processes, and performance metrics
  • Proven analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of go-to-market programs and strategies, and the ability to pivot, or double-down to drive greater levels of success
  • Ability to travel up to 30%

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Business Development Director, Law and Insurance

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Your Career

The Unit 42 the Business Development Director, Law and Insurance (Unit 42) is responsible for growing demand for Unit 42 services from top global cybersecurity law firms and insurance carriers. This person will have a strong understanding of the incident response services market landscape, value proposition for clients, go-to-market, as well as how these services are sourced through engagement with law and insurance partners. Candidates should have a track record of building and nurturing relationships with key decision makers at law firms and insurance carriers.

This position is full-time and can be remote. 

Your Impact

  • Increase number of engagements referred to Unit 42 from law firms and/or insurance carriers and expand presence
  • Establish new and deepen existing relationships with key stakeholders at target law firms and insurance carriers
  • Develop and curate thought leadership relevant to this market to further establish Unit 42 as a market leader
  • Perform Quarterly Business Reviews and/or cyber threat landscape briefings with partner firms and carriers 
  • Work with Unit 42 Consulting and the extended Palo Alto Networks go-to-market teams to develop and leverage resources to engage and activate partners 
  • Develop tailored value propositions and per-partner agreements to support increased activation and demand

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Substantial professional experience in cybersecurity advisory and consultative sales 
  • Experience working with law firms and in-house counsel supporting incident response, risk management and digital forensic services engagements
  • Established industry relationships with key decision-makers across all levels of partner and prospect law firms
  • Understanding and experience with insurance claims management and panel placements
  • Experience in working collaboratively to represent a portfolio of services to stakeholders within a law firm and law firm clientele
  • Understanding of cybersecurity regulations and the important role lawyers and insurance carriers play in incident response
  • Highly effective relationship/partner development skills
  • Demonstrated success in developing and implementing go-to-market strategies, processes, and performance metrics
  • Proven analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of go-to-market programs and strategies, and the ability to pivot, or double-down to drive greater levels of success
  • Ability to travel up to 30%

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Principal Solutions Consultant-iGSI

Job Description

Your Career

The iGSI(India Based Global System Integrators) Principal, Security Solutions Consultant Is responsible to work with the internal and external iGSI partner teams to successfully develop and position PANW products(SASE, CloudSec and Autonomous SOC. This is a partner facing role. In this position you will lead all aspects of the technical solution building process, from initial discussion and tactics forming, building out technical service playbooks to helping to build out labs and supporting feedback from sales discussions. Some level of technical hands-on configuration may also be required including demos and doing architecture level discussions, performing training sessions for partner solution architects. 

Importantly, this person will also manage GTM activities for the business specific to the defined joint solution or set of joint solutions, working in coordination with the broader partnership GTM teams.

Additionally, we would expect you to keep one eye on the strategy and downstream roadmap, identifying and prototyping future plays and being an evangelist for emerging problems and client challenges

Your Impact

In this key role, you will be the “go to” resource for:                

  • Collaborating with the iGSI’s team to drive and build unique solution offerings, leveraging the technical strengths & capabilities brought by Palo Alto Networks and the iGSI
  • Lead and support efforts defining solution architectures, design & implementation guides, and technical enablement plans that demonstrate Palo Alto Networks and the GSI’s value together - You will be leveraging solutions, services and product teams in this effort
  • Drive the GTM of the offerings at the iGSI and the customer
  • Work closely with the iGSI Business Development Director and Solutions team, as well as peers at the iGSI (including but not limited to - Technical, PMO, Product and Solutions marketing, Service Creation, Enablement) to craft & execute the business plan for offer/s developed
  • Collaborating with Palo Alto Networks account teams and partners, drive deals through close interactions   
  • Build a regular cadence of relationship-building, responsible for “partner peering” exercises to enable stronger partnerships
  • You will educate the iGSI’s teams on our enterprise security platform value proposition to drive growth of our outcome-based solutions - Driving certifications for presale and delivery will be a integral part of your role
  • Work in highly collaborative environments to team with Account Managers, Sales Engineers, Marketing, and Channel Partners in the region to drive revenue and growth
  • Help to exceed customer expectations by identifying impactful user cases that enable people to transform their businesses with Palo Alto Networks products
  • Motivate and build extended teams around you to unlock the power of Palo Alto Networks Sales organisation, customer base and partner organisation
  • Open to travel within India and outside

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • BTech/BE degree or equivalent or equivalent military experience with a minimum 15+ years related systems integrator experience working with customers and partners
  • Experience which demonstrates a strong level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Enterprise Security and/or Networking and Cloud solutions
  • Comfortable with doing demos, solution architecture and setting up products in lab environments
  • Cloud security, SOC or SASE/SD-WAN experience
  • Hands-on selling, demonstrating, installing and troubleshooting security products, ideally spanning Cloud, SOC, MDR, SASE plus typical enterprise security use cases
  • Ability to independently create, design, and develop solutions very successfully working with product teams and/or partners’ offer development teams
  • Track record of successfully working for, with, and/or through partners, especially System Integrators and Strategic Consultants
  • In-depth knowledge in the enterprise security space – both from a technology and a business driver standpoint - Demonstrable experience in solution creation for these environments
  • Experience and track record of working with cross-functional and cross-organizational teams
  • Effective and persuasive communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
  • Strong understanding of competitive offerings in the marketplace
  • Have a learning mindset 
  • Candidates with CISSP,CCIEs and other certifications will be preferred

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Major Account Manager Defence

Job Description

Your Career

The Major Account Manager partners with our customers to secure their entire digital experience. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.  This role is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. 

We know the SASE opportunity is massive. Our solutions are best-in-breed and customers need a trusted cybersecurity partner who can create a truly zero trust based security architecture. Our customers are looking to us to create critical transformations and our portfolio of solutions will help us do that.

Your Impact

  • As a Major Account Manager,  you will drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
  • Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers
  • Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
  • Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
  • Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
  • Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
  • Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
  • Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
  • Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
  • Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
  • Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Consulting Director - Unit 4

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Your Career

The role of Consulting Director in Unit 42 is a senior-level consulting position. The individual will be responsible for the day to day delivery of our threat-led and technology driven cyber security consulting services through leading and directly overseeing a team of Consultants. This person will have experience in developing teams and working with sales and domain leaders.

The Consulting Director will work with a dedicated Regional Business Development Manager (BDM) and Customer Success Manager (CSM) to deliver pitches and prepare proposals to win new business and manage client relationships. 

We are seeking an individual who is passionate about cyber security and making a difference. You will be a continuous learner and have a sound knowledge of emerging cybersecurity trends and technologies.  

The individual serves as a trusted advisor to clients, is dedicated to delivering technical consulting services to an exceptional standard, thrives in a fast paced team environment, and advocates for innovative approaches to deliver the best outcomes for our cross-sector clients.

Your Impact

  • You are an Industry-recognized inspiring leader with media and public speaking experience, deeply embedded in information security community
  • Oversee the delivery of our proactive and reactive consulting services, ensuring their consistency, quality and highest level of customer service
  • Provide hands-on, expert-level cybersecurity assessment and transformation services to clients and deliver findings to CxO and/or Board of Directors
  • Work with the BDM and CSM to perform pipeline generation activities
  • Lead scoping and services overview conversations with clients for prospective engagements in area of expertise, presenting with credibility and authority, clearly articulating various approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel
  • Partner with the Unit 42 executive team and service line leaders to develop and execute strategy for the Unit 42 practice
  • Drive innovation in Unit 42’s offerings, by leading and managing the consulting team and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring new capabilities and services to market that leverage Palo Alto Networks products
  • Manage the productivity of a team through attainment of utilisation targets
  • Collaborate with peers and leaders across Unit 42 to drive operational and practice development goals
  • Recruit and onboard world class talent to support our growth goals
  • Support the professional growth and development of our consultants through training and technical enablement
  • Foster and maintain a culture that attracts and retains smart, kind team members dedicated to executing with excellence
  • Identify and execute strategies for service development, enablement, and product adoption
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with key clientele to increase awareness of Unit 42’s’ capabilities and provide on-demand expertise for client needs
  • Amplify Unit 42s’ presence and credibility in the marketplace through thought leadership, including via speaking engagements, articles, whitepapers, and media exposure

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 12+ years of hands-on experience delivering a wide range of cybersecurity consulting services, including at least 4 of the following 9 for global enterprise customers
    • Security operations
    • Application security (including AI)
    • Cloud security
    • Red & purple teaming
    • Cybersecurity risk assessments
    • Cybersecurity strategy & transformations
    • Cyber crisis management
    • Zero Trust
    • Digital forensics & Incident response
  • Experience as a senior-level team leader including overseeing other principal, senior, and mid-level analyst/consultant teams
  • Able to split your time across commercial support, client delivery, team leadership, individual mentoring, and technical expertise and skills maintenance activities
  • Strong presentation, communication, and presentation skills with verifiable industry experience communicating at CxO and/or Board of Directors level
  • Client services mindset and exceptional client management skills
  • Public speaking experience, demonstrated writing ability, including technical reports, business communication, and thought leadership pieces
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent relevant experience or equivalent military experience to meet job requirements and expectations
  • Professional industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, and other leading industry certifications in line with our services portfolio
  • Expert level of knowledge of applicable laws, compliance regulations, and industry standards as it relates to privacy, security, and compliance 
  • You will have experience operating across ASEAN 

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Regional Sales Manager, Federal Systems Integrators

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Your Career

The Regional Sales Manager(Federal and/or Civilian) is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

You’ll be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic territory plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a go-getter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies.

Your Impact

  • As a Regional Sales Manager, Civilian FSI, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
  • Bring your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long-standing relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors
  • Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments 
  • Understanding of the strategic competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position Palo Alto Networks 
  • Engage a programmatic approach to demand to generate, develop, and expand your territory
  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
  • Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meeting

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Experience working with FSI customers; preferably Lockheed Martin
  • Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security context - awareness of SASE technology is preferred
  • Experience cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
  • Have and able to lead all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualifying, developing, and closing new, white-space territories and accounts
  • Deep knowledge of the (U.S. DOD and/or intelligence community/or Civilian Agencies)
  • Possess a successful track record selling complex-solutions 
  • Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction
  • Highly competitive, ramp quickly, extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding production goal

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Commercial Sales Manager - Austria

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Your Career

Our Commercial Sales Team is an important driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you will be responsible for leading and driving sales engagements into assigned commercial accounts. In this role, you are motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

You will be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic and tactical sales plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a self-starter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies and further improving the security posture of existing customers. Oh, and did you say you love to sell? Because selling is what gets you out of bed every morning. This is not just a career – it’s a meaningful challenge that impacts our lives in the digital age.

Your Impact

  • Prospect and sell into assigned commercial accounts, create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
  • Be the primary sales driver, managing a pipeline to deliver quarterly/ annual quota; strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
  • Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
  • Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
  • Generate velocity to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel ecosystem
  • Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end-users through our channel sales partners
  • Work collaboratively with all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota -inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cybersecurity sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others
  • Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • Proven track record of success in achieving sales quotas
  • Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
  • Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
  • Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process; experience leading all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualify, develop, and close white-space territories and accounts
  • Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction
  • Proficiency in German and English language skills

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Solutions Consultant - Public Sector- Germany

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey.  You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks across the product lifecycle.  You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

  • Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
  • Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
  • Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
  • Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
  • Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
  • Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
  • Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
  • Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
  • Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
  • Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
  • Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders; prior experience in a pre-sales role is a prerequisite
  • Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
  • Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, Cloud Security and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
  • Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • Proficient in English

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Technical Sales Manager (Systems Engineer), SD-WAN

Job Description

Your Career

As a Technical Sales Manager (TSM) for SD-WAN, you will work with your sales partners to establish strong relationships with customers, helping them in the detection and prevention of advanced cyber attacks and breaches, and advising on which applications to deploy from the Palo Alto Networks platform. Our TSM’s bring a deep technical understanding of cybersecurity products, integrations and critical cyber threats facing our customers’ environments.  You will build trust with our customers and teams, and build environments where our customers feel (and are) secure.  Based on learnings from your customer base, you will provide valuable feedback and input to our product management teams on new feature requests and product improvements. 

Your Impact 

  • Establish yourself as a trusted advisor on Palo Alto Networks' SD-WAN products and capabilities, to prospects and customers, working with your Account Managers and the local partners within your territory
  • Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified SD-WAN and security problems in each individual environment
  • Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
  • Ensure ongoing customer happiness, support and adoption
  • Pursue continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
  • Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors
  • Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow-up with the customer through resolution

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 5+ years of relevant technical pre-sales systems engineering work experience within the networking field
  • Highly advanced experience with SD-WAN architectures/providers, as well as BGP routing
  • Additional preferred technical capabilities may include a mix of the following -
    • WAN technologies - MPLS, MetroE, Leased Lines, Broadband
    • Tunneling protocols - SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, DMVPN
    • IP Routing - BGP, OSPF, Static, Network Address Translation
    • Virtualization technologies - ESX, KVM, Xen, Microsoft preferred
    • Network security capabilities - IPS/IDS, Zone-Based Firewalls
  • Ability to travel up to 50% as needed

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Manager, Prisma Cloud Solution Architects - Strategics

Job Description

Your Career

As the Solution Architects (SA) Manager for Prisma Cloud, you will lead an SA organization that’s composed of industry-leading technical experts who are instrumental in helping our customers architect, scope and realize their cloud security transformation. Your close business partner will be the District Sales Manager for Prisma Cloud.

Along with your team, you will build close and influential relationships with your customers and prospects to help them securely deploy applications, containerized and serverless workloads across Public Cloud Service Providers and also within their own Private Cloud infrastructure. You will use your expertise to guide and mentor your team of field SAs to keep them on the leading edge of cloud security architecture and ahead of the latest cyber threats.

We are looking for a leader to develop our field cloud security SAs to become domain experts on cloud security and proficient on competitive products so they can effectively position Prisma Cloud to our customers in a differentiated way that leads to customer wins. You will coach your team to deliver compelling Proof of Value/Concepts that clearly showcase the strength of Prisma Cloud. As a leader, you will closely monitor all PoVs/PoCs to assure they are successful within the shortest possible time.

As an SA leader, you will provide feedback to your team on an ongoing basis, to help them continuously learn and improve, so they show up as the best version of themselves everyday. Additionally you will provide feedback from the field and from customers to product management on new feature requests and product improvements. 

To drive high adoption of Prisma Cloud, you will work with key stakeholders to ensure customers consume the platform modules based on optimal architectures. You will also coach your team in helping customers engineer and tune their Prisma Cloud solution based on recommendations and best practices.

Your Impact

  • Nurture and be the role-model of a positive outlook, can-do attitude and growth mindset, while leading and keeping the SAs motivated in a fast paced and ever changing environment 
  • Recruit and retain the best SA talent in the industry
  • Coach, mentor, and grow employees on your team, while keeping them engaged and successful in their careers 
  • Reinforce technical excellence, hands-on scrappiness, and a customer first culture
  • Help define and continuously influence the training curriculum so the content is relevant and up-to-date as possible
  • Help preserve our dynamic “start-up” energy as we scale
  • Understand the strengths and weaknesses of leading products in the market and position Prisma Cloud as a differentiated offering
  • Be an active part of the selling process
  • Be an influential thought leader at all levels at the customer, especially at the CxO and CISO levels
  • Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and  to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
  • Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by the best customers in the industry
  • Steer conversations about industry trends and emerging changes on the security landscape that every customer needs to plan for
  • Lead and support the team in complex evaluations, problem solving and challenging customer environments
  • Ownership and accountability of advanced 'proof of value' testing in strategic accounts
  • Provide design consultation and standard methodology mentorship for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the 'pre-sales' process for strategic opportunities
  • Champion the voice of our users and customers to influence product direction and feature priorities
  • Be a player-manager, to fill in for existing team members if there is a resource conflict, or vacation coverage challenge
  • Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post sales technical issues that arise 

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 2+ years experience as a pre-sales Solutions Manager
  • 6+ years as a Senior Solutions Architect, Principal or Consulting Engineering
  • Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products 
  • Domain expertise in the areas of public cloud architectures, cloud native security models, CI/CD, DevOps, firewalls, and other security technologies both from a technology and a business driver standpoint
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
  • Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required 

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote SASE District Sales Manager

Job Description

Your Career

As a member of the Palo Alto Networks sales leadership team, you will build and drive the Prisma Cloud sales teams to exceed company objectives and grow the district according to plan.  You will manage the Prisma Cloud sales team on a day-to-day basis including- pipeline review, Demand Gen review, Channel Review, and overall performance management of the sales team. You will report to the Regional Vice President of Prisma Cloud Enterprise Sales.

Your Impact

  • Hire and expand the  district to scale with the company growth and objectives - District includes Central Region Enterprise accounts 
  • Participate in quarterly review sessions with the key partners in the region
  • Have a direct involvement and influence in top opportunities, focusing sales efforts on large key accounts with the sales team
  • District travel is required

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 2 years of sales management experience with a team of 5+ account executives 
  • Practical knowledge of handling large quota/ deals with Enterprise customers 
  • Deep understanding of how to build a district in a fast-growing dynamic environment, leveraging the broader Palo Alto Networks community and creating a culture within the region that supports the objectives of the Company
  • Proven experience selling and managing sales teams in the technology industry with technical knowledge of SASE
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
  • Enterprise sales experience with a strong network of in district decision makers
  • Superb organizational skills
  • "Whatever it takes" attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Commercial Sales Manager

Job Description

Your Career

Our Commercial Sales Team is an important driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you will be responsible for leading and driving sales engagements into assigned commercial accounts. In this role, you are motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

You will be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic and tactical sales plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a self-starter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies and further improving the security posture of existing customers. Oh, and did you say you love to sell? Because selling is what gets you out of bed every morning. This is not just a career – it’s a meaningful challenge that impacts our lives in the digital age.

Your Impact

  • Prospect and sell into assigned commercial accounts
  • Be the primary sales driver
  • Managing a sales pipeline to deliver to quarterly/annual quota
  • Strong discipline around managing sales stages and SFDC hygiene
  • Deliver accurate weekly and quarterly forecast
  • Create and execute a robust sales strategy to penetrate into new accounts and expand into existing accounts
  • Build a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
  • Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
  • Communicate value propositions to clients and partners that speak intimately to their needs and requirements
  • Generate velocity to deliver a predictable book of business and drive forecast accuracy utilizing channel ecosystem
  • Develop and deploy marketing activities and plans to end users through our channel sales partners
  • Engage a programmatic approach to demand, to generate, develop, and expand your territory
  • Work collaboratively with all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota - inside sales, channel systems engineering, field marketing, cybersecurity sales specialists, the services team, sales ops (including deal desk and the response team), and others

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Minimum 2 years of sales experience in a software-selling role with proven track record of success
  • Experience building a network and winning new logos
  • Self-motivated, driven and committed to success
  • Positive and customer-centric attitude
  • Aptitude for technology and cybersecurity
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills 
  • Experience working in a matrix organisation would be preferred
  • Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market would be preferred

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote US Field Strategist - SLED

Job Description

(THIS ROLE IS U.S REMOTE)


Your Career

The Field Strategist dedicated to EDU including R1 Universities, Higher Education, and large k-12 in the US is responsible for making Palo Alto Networks the undisputed leader in this specialized vertical, marshaling a cross-functional support team to deliver a growth plan that starts with foundational transactions, moves to solutions and branding, and become true market leadership and partnership with our government and education customers. As our face to the market, you bring years of direct cybersecurity experience in the vertical, and leverage your experience, network, and credibility to engage our customers and the industry at the most senior levels.

Your Impact

  • Collaborate with marketing, sales, and BD to establish our core story for research universities and extend the foundation of our sales
  • Evangelize our vision, point of view, and value proposition for key customer stakeholders
  • Serve as the subject matter expert in building customer presentations and other collateral
  • Guide the development of training and enablement for our sales teams and partners, including quick reference guides and LMS modules
  • Identify and shape the top cybersecurity use cases, and provide expert content to campaign and field marketing teams to drive demand for repeatable sales plays
  • Build us into the cybersecurity market leader and partner of choice for research universities
  • Create solutions and validated designs that drive industry visibility, differentiated value, and industry best practices
  • Join sales calls with C-level customers to help close our largest and most strategic deals
  • Be our visible leader: keynote presentations at the leading industry events
  • Work with Bus Dev to identify and secure partnerships with technology and consulting partners to establish an optimal GTM approach
  • Embed with leading customers and industry groups to create partnerships, thought leadership, invention, and disruption to the way cybersecurity is consumed
  • Provide testimony and support legislation to cast awareness on the proper scope and funding of cybersecurity needed in the research space

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Experience working for R1 universities/Higher Ed and K-12 in roles, focused on cybersecurity or chief IT roles in which cybersecurity was a primary function
  • First-hand mastery of issues related to technology usage, and the most common software and technology providers in the ecosystem
  • Extensive relationships and an excellent reputation in key industry groups
  • Experience with public sector contracts, procurement terms and processes, and funding sources Program management skills, and ability to manage a cross-functional team
  • Experience working in and establishing a variety of supplier/partner relationship models, ideally including insource/outsource and software license models
  • Exceptional public speaking and C-Level customer consultative and relationship skills
  • Research and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to balance a complex workload, with short- and long-term requirements
  • Ability to work autonomously within predefined parameters

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Solutions Consultant, Major Accounts

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey.  You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

  • Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
  • Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
  • Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
  • Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
  • Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
  • Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
  • Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
  • Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
  • Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
  • (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
  • Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role - prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
  • Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
  • Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
  • Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • Proficient in English

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Manager, Solutions Architecture, Prisma Cloud (Strategic & Major Accounts)

Job Description

Your Career

As the Solution Architects (SA) Manager for Prisma Cloud, you will lead an organization that’s composed of industry-leading technical experts who are instrumental in helping our customers architect, scope and realize their cloud security transformation. Your close business partner will be the District Sales Manager for Prisma Cloud.

Along with your team, you will build close and influential relationships with your customers and prospects to help them securely deploy applications, containerized and serverless workloads across Public Cloud Service Providers and also within their own Private Cloud infrastructure. You will use your expertise to guide and mentor your team of field SAs to keep them on the leading edge of cloud security architecture and ahead of the latest cyber threats.

We are looking for a leader to develop our field cloud security SAs to become domain experts on cloud security and proficient on competitive products so they can effectively position Prisma Cloud to our customers in a differentiated way that leads to customer wins. You will coach your team to deliver compelling Proof of Value/Concepts that clearly showcase the strength of Prisma Cloud. As a leader, you will closely monitor all PoVs/PoCs to assure they are successful within the shortest possible time.

You will provide feedback to your team on an ongoing basis, to help them continuously learn and improve, so they show up as the best version of themselves everyday. Additionally you will provide feedback from the field and from customers to product management on new feature requests and product improvements. 

To drive high adoption of Prisma Cloud, you will work with key stakeholders to ensure customers consume the platform modules based on optimal architectures. You will also coach your team in helping customers engineer and tune their Prisma Cloud solution based on recommendations and best practices.

Your Impact

  • Nurture and be the role-model of a positive outlook, can-do attitude and growth mindset, while leading and keeping the SAs motivated in a fast paced and ever changing environment 
  • Recruit and retain the best SA talent in the industry
  • Coach, mentor, and grow employees on your team, while keeping them engaged and successful in their careers 
  • Reinforce technical excellence, hands-on scrappiness, and a customer first culture
  • Help define and continuously influence the training curriculum so the content is relevant and up-to-date as possible
  • Help preserve our dynamic “start-up” energy as we scale
  • Understand the strengths and weaknesses of leading products in the market and position Prisma Cloud as a differentiated offering
  • Be an active part of the selling process
  • Be an influential thought leader at all levels at the customer, especially at the CxO and CISO levels
  • Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
  • Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by the best customers in the industry
  • Steer conversations about industry trends and emerging changes on the security landscape that every customer needs to plan for
  • Lead and support the team in complex evaluations, problem solving and challenging customer environments
  • Ownership and accountability of advanced 'proof of value' testing in strategic accounts
  • Provide design consultation and standard methodology mentorship for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the 'pre-sales' process for strategic opportunities
  • Champion the voice of our users and customers to influence product direction and feature priorities
  • Be a player-manager, to fill in for existing team members if there is a resource conflict, or vacation coverage challenge
  • Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post sales technical issues that arise

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 3+ years experience as a pre-sales Manager
  • 6+ years as a Senior System Engineer, Senior Solutions Architect or in Consulting Engineering
  • Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts - Developing knowledge of competitor offerings and products 
  • Domain expertise in the areas of public cloud architectures, cloud native security models, CI/CD, DevOps, firewalls, and other security technologies both from a technology and a business driver standpoint
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
  • Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor

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Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Remote Solution Consultant - Network Security (Presales)

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. 

You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

  • Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
  • Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
  • Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
  • Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
  • Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
  • Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
  • Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
  • Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
  • Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
  • Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • Understanding of data networking and/ or modern application design and cloud architectures
  • Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a presales role is ideal
  • Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
  • Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
  • Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • Proficiency in Dutch/ French and English language skills

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