Company Description

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

• Identify and pursue high-potential accounts, collaborating closely with sales teams to discover, build proposals, and pitch to largest CDSS customers
• Develop and deliver scaled enablement on our Enterprise Agreements, sales process, and best practices
• Work cross-functionally across Product, Marketing, Sales, Sales Ops to drive Enterprise Agreement strategies and sales programs
• Analyze data to develop strategies and recommendations, and build compelling presentations for various audiences, including customers and executive leadership
• Drive predictable forecasting, measure success, and report on performance

Your Experience

• 7+ years of GTM Strategy, Sales Strategy, Sales Operations or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred 3+ years in top management consulting, private equity, top-tier tech strategy / “bizops” functions or GTM programs
• Preferred 3+ years experience in SaaS, B2B technology and/or cybersecurity
• Sales / Sales Support - Experience working directly with customers and collaborating with sales teams to create proposals and negotiate
• Leadership - Proven experience in influencing sales teams and managing projects
• Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy - Experience in developing and executing GTM strategies for SaaS solutions, including market analysis, product positioning, and customer engagement
• Excellent Communication - Ability to convey security and commercial concepts to both internal and external stakeholders, and ability to deliver exec-level messages

The Team

Palo Alto Networks has brought technology to the market that is reshaping the cybersecurity threat and protection landscape. Our ability to protect digital transactions is limited only by our ability to establish relationships with our potential customers and help them understand how our products can protect their environments. This is where our sales teams come in. Our sales team members work together with large organizations to keep their digital information safe. Our passionate sales teams educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients.

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $154,000/yr to $249,050/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

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 [email protected].

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.

Company Description

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers working with your Account Manager and the local partners within your territory
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape that every customer needs to be aware of
• Strategy planning for moving critical data, intellectual property, and high-demand applications to Public Cloud
• Be the technical voice of Sales for all things related to security and compliance in Public Cloud (Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform)
• Ability to discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and effectively differentiate against them
• Effectively lead and support customer demonstrations with our System Engineers that showcase our value
• Interact locally and remotely with customers in an equally persuasive, confident manner
• Act as the customers advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved
• Write code/scripts as needed (or be willing to learn)
• Provide design consultation and standard methodology mentorship for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the pre-sales process
• Provide technical demos for strategic prospects and current accounts of Palo Alto Networks virtual offerings and integration in existing data center environments
• Assist with the training of new System Engineers in their designated region in installs customer presentations, and internally-focused deal preparation activities
• Help develop relationships with new Born-in-the-Cloud partners who will be integral in winning over new customers
• Support relationship expansion with top existing partners for Public Cloud

Required Qualifications:

• Experience as a system engineer, solutions architect, or systems integrator
• Good understanding & expertise of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD (Jenkins, Github, etc)
• Understanding of API based security and compliance standards and Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex multivariate problems and find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution, often under duress
• Mature and effective time-management skills
• Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud installation, configuration and administration of security features and services including identity and access management, service-related security features, networking, firewalls, encryption, and related standard methodologies
• Proficiency with cloud networking models and connectivity, network security, virtualization, and cloud computing
• Working experience with customers, positioning, demonstrating, configuring and fixing network infrastructure security products
• Programming experience in a higher-level language such as NodeJS, Ruby, Chef, Puppet, YAML, JSON, and/or Python
• Deep understanding of exploits, malware, ransomware, and etc. along with their creation and activation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in pre-sales highly preferred
• Travel up to 30% within the designated region, country, and/or theater, International travel also required on ad-hoc basis
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• Experience from companies in the enterprise networking security space

Additional Information

The Team

Our sales team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

As part of our sales team, you are empowered with unmatched systems and tools, constantly updated research and sales libraries, and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our sales team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredibly complex cyberthreats.

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 $192,000/yr to $264,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

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 [email protected].

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.

Company Description

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

• As a member of our Global Palo Alto Networks GSI team, our SE will develop a localized technical partner plan that sets the table for how we will interlock our global and regional partner plan priorities and partner enablement objectives
• You will align with the Palo Alto Network regional Alliance Business Managers, SE’s and Account Sales teams to drive partner awareness and enablement around joint solution offerings, sales plays and GTM campaigns where technical evangelism is required
• The SE will be part of the wider Palo Alto Networks SE community, providing support and access to deep technical training and enablement programs
• This role will encompass a wide range of activities including, establishing technical relationships, building partner awareness, preference and competency for Palo Alto Networks across technical partner personas
• In this role, you will help drive Palo Alto Networks Next Generation security platform & technology solutions adoption, deliver ad-hoc training, replicate best practices and demonstrate Palo Alto Networks products to partner technical personas and augment technical account team leads as and when it will help us establish a beach-head win for the Alliance
• In this role, you will deliver and promote enablement pathways to the partner that will ultimately enable them to establish Palo Alto Networks product, sales and implementation competencies
• You will also be expected to coordinate within the regional Channel SE organization, our Partner Program and Enablement Teams to resource specific regional partner meetings or activities, where local resources are required
• The ideal candidate will have prior experience of working across security domains, including network infrastructure, end point and cloud, within a large, strategic partner community

Required Qualifications

• BS CS or equivalent or equivalent military experience required and 8+ years of experience as an SE, Channel SE or solutions architecture
• This role will focus on Public Sector teams and projects with our GSI/CSP partners. Some experience with State and Federal agencies, DoD IL5, FedRAMP, etc., is required
• The SE will be responsible for building strategic technical relationships that drive incremental revenue of our cloud-based platforms - Develop and execute a technical comprehensive strategy to establish, strengthen, and maintain a strategic partnership with the CSPs and GSIs in Public Sector
• Experience selling, demonstrating, installing and troubleshooting network infrastructure security products
• Self-motivated, able to work alone and maintain focus but also work as part of a team
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze complex problems and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution, often under time demands
• Ability to understand business outcomes and lead technical discussions
• Superb organizational skills
• "Whatever it takes" attitude and motivation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of service based offering development, potentially as part of a Global Systems Integrator (SI/GSI), Managed Security Service partner (MSSP), Cloud Service Provider (CSP) or Consulting firm
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• Experience from companies in the enterprise networking security industry

The Team

Our Palo Alto Networks Systems Integrator GTM Partner team is a group of hand-selected individuals that are focused on driving our technical relationship across GSIs. This focused and experienced team works directly with the GSIs, as well as internally and externally key stakeholders and constituents to operationalize and achieve our desired business plan outcomes. This role will be critical to ensuring we execute on time and on plan.

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 $198000 - $273000/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 [email protected].

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.