Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

You will join an accelerated 2-year Product Management Academy to fast-track you into an experienced and effective PM through rotational team opportunities. In this program, you will play an instrumental role in shaping the industry’s leading security solutions across network security, cloud security and/or security automation teams. 

In addition to your own creativity, you will leverage extensive interactions with customers to identify the most pressing problems they face in securing their environments. You will engage with cross-functional teams to formulate innovative solutions that further our disruption of the cybersecurity industry and fundamentally change how enterprises consume security technology. Finally, you will help ensure those solutions are well understood, adopted, and enjoyed by our customers by working with our Product Marketing, Sales and Go-To Market teams on product launch events and field enablement.

Your Impact

• Shape the future for Palo Alto Networks by defining product strategy and roadmap for your product with an eye on how the market needs to evolve

• Ensure successful execution of your product vision by working hand in hand with talented counterparts in engineering

• Drive meaningful adoption of your product by collaborating with Product Marketing on sales and marketing materials

• Understand how your product needs to interact with other elements of our product portfolio to drive the success of our overarching vision

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Upcoming or recent college graduate of a Bachelors, Masters or MBA degree in Software Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required

• Exemplify strong initiative and ability to work independently with limited direction

• Strong ability to actively listen to customers, identify root problems, approach solutions through data driven decision making or ability to create solutions around imperfect data 

• Ability to partner with cross functional teams such as engineering, marketing, UX and more through the entire product lifecycle

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Strong passion to take ownership of full product experience

• Drive to design something new, innovative, and disruptive

• Deliver product initiatives while exemplifying our company values 

• Previous product management experience is preferred

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Product Management Team helps us do just that.

Our organization and employees are committed to changing as rapidly as our industry’s threats do, and to do that, we need creative product teams to address emerging cyber threats. They provide the behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information on our products for our systems engineers, staying on top of the environment we sell in, and helping to implement product wide technical solutions based on our client’s feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and year in school. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be:

$140,000/yr for Bachelor's

$165,000/yr for Master's/MBA

The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found  here.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. With more than 85,000 customers, and a growing presence in over 150 countries, it’s a great time to join Palo Alto Networks and make a global impact. Our commitment to innovation in cybersecurity runs deep, inspiring us to seek new opportunities, new ways to collaborate, and new ways to make a difference.