Major Account Manager jobs at Palo Alto in Australia, Perth

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

Operational Leadership and Team Management:

• Guide the daily activities of a team of Technical Support Engineers, ensuring alignment with company goals and objectives. Provide the team with the necessary resources, tools, and streamlined processes for sustained performance and efficiency

• Mentor and guide engineers to enhance both technical expertise and soft skills. Facilitate regular training opportunities tailored to both technical and professional growth, setting clear team goals that align with broader organizational objectives

• Conduct annual performance reviews, providing actionable feedback and mentorship to help team members exceed expectations

Technical Oversight and Customer Engagement:

• Support engineers in solving complex customer issues, effectively prioritizing, negotiating customer priorities, and setting clear expectations for outcomes

• Proactively engage in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with customers, providing insights on support best practices and participating in business development discussions to underline the value of services offered

• Lead Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes, document lessons learned, and drive process improvements

Strategic Collaboration and Accountability:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Product, and leadership teams. Work closely with the Business Operations Manager to ensure seamless service kick-offs

• Oversee trend analysis on support cases, identifying recurring issues and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement long-term solutions

• Be 100% accountable for the customers managed within the team, taking ownership of all pre-sales and post-sales decisions

Change and Crisis Management:

• Spearhead change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and high performance through effective communication and support

• Anticipate and proactively manage escalations at the case and account levels using AI-driven insights and prediction models

• Provide weekend and holiday on-call support on an as-needed basis

Leadership and Management:

• 8+ years in technical support, with at least 3 years experience in a management OR lead role in a high-touch or white-glove support environment

• Strong mentorship skills demonstrated through coaching engineers, setting ambitious goals, and driving performance improvements

• Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills, focusing on customer advocacy and improving service response and resolution timelines

Technical Expertise and Problem Solving:

• Expertise in handling incidents and troubleshooting in network security, cloud security, or enterprise IT environments

• Experience in Endpoint and Cloud Security industries, familiarity in Cloud services providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, etc) and understanding of how Support engineering works in SaaS business model

Collaboration and Communication:

• Experienced in working with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to refine support strategies and improve product supportability

• Excellent communication skills with strong executive presence, adept at managing stakeholder relationships, leading high-level customer engagements, Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs), and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)

• Skilled in AI-driven analytics, ITIL frameworks, and using case management systems (e.g., Salesforce, ServiceNow, JIRA). Proficient in conducting trend analysis for proactive support

You'll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised - in fact, you'll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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

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

Your Impact

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry

• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers

• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments

• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team

• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.

• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process

• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.

• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling

• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise

• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business

• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO

• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative

• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers

• 50-75% travel within the region

• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Your Experience

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager

• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist

• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products

• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base

• 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

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor

• Proficient in English

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