Job Description

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we live by the mantra, "What gets measured gets done." Our product management team thrives on making impactful, data-driven decisions that drive results and keep us ahead of the curve.

Are you driven to elevate operational excellence and ensure world-class service availability through the power of data? Do you shine in cross-functional collaboration, inspiring teams to deliver exceptional product performance? If so, we have an exciting opportunity just for you!

As the Product Manager for Platformization of Cloud Delivered Security Services (CDSS), you will play a key role in driving effective security outcomes and simplifying operations for customers. The charter includes combining numerous products and services into a unified and streamlined management and operation experience, adding native integrations that make each component stronger than a corresponding “best-of-breed” point product and creating great user experiences that increase productivity, radically simplify operations, and improve security outcomes. You will work with AI Powered Cloud Delivery Security Services that prevent advanced, multi-stage attacks, Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) that unifies management and operations of network security and Strata Copilot to drive the autonomous cybersecurity future. Your responsibilities will include defining and delivering the overall Platformization Roadmap, defining sophisticated frameworks to prioritize new capabilities, bringing in insights from customers and threat landscape and measuring ROI for new features. This role will need both - strong product management skills and deep technical acumen. While we do not expect you to be a security guru and a UX wizard, prior work in creating great user experience for enterprise security products combined with working knowledge of network security will be required.

If you are passionate about combating threats, creating user experiences that customers love, working with the best in the cybersecurity business and utilizing cutting edge AI, this is the role for you!

Your Impact

• Security Domain Expertise - Deeply understands the customer environment, threat landscape and is seen as a strategic advisor - Correlate technical designs with customer experience to influence new designs and capabilities - Bring unique and deep customer insights to eng/XFN teams

• Product Plans and Roadmap - Leads setting product vision and strategy with Eng team and XFN stakeholders - Identifies where a new or significantly improved product is needed to meet customer needs or fill a gap in the market - Lead building product roadmap and drive long term product pans

• Execution - Achieve desired outcomes in highly complex environments within stipulated timelines - Resilience and persistence in the face of challenges, ensuring the team stays on track

• Data-Driven Decision Making - Utilize data analytics to monitor and analyze operational metrics, identifying trends, anomalies, and areas for improvements that will influence the WildFire Product Roadmap

• Go-to Market - Proactively drives holistic product positioning and product launch plans that includes contributing to (i.e. supporting XF) customer pitch decks, whitepapers, demos, sales enablement material etc

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Experience - Proven experience in product management, preferably within the cybersecurity threat environment

• Analytical Skills - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of using data to drive decisions

• Technical Acumen - Deep understanding of threat landscape and network security - Ability to understand complex engineering designs, cloud infrastructure needs, operating system exploits and the processes to build enterprise product (agile)

• Communication - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Leadership - Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive initiatives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Education - Bachelor's degree in Engineering - advanced degree or relevant certifications are a plus or equivalent military experience

Additional Information

The Team

We’re an innovative team focused on delivering best-in-class, threat detection services. Our mission is to protect our customers’ public cloud workloads with resilient, scalable, and always-on firewall solutions. As the leading FWaaS provider, we successfully integrated in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Driven by a commitment to excellence, we set the standard for best-in-class security across even the most complex cloud infrastructures. We also happen to be one of the fastest-growing Security Products within Palo Alto Networks.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $166000 - $268500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.