Airs Solutions Specialist jobs at Palo Alto in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

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

Your Impact

• Define and execute on our GTM strategy for AI security solutions, focusing on accelerating customer adoption of our solutions for securing the creation and usage of AI applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive pipeline generation, customer engagements and market penetration
• Support the development and execution of strategies to identify, qualify and convert a robust pipeline of potential customers for AI security solutions
• Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify key market segments and opportunities
• Lead customer-facing activities, including presentations, demonstrations and proof-of-value (POVs)
• Engage in technical conversations with customers regarding AI security challenges and solutions, including topics such as securing RAG models, prompts, vector databases, etc.
• Build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders, including C-level executives, security and IT leaders
• Collaborate closely with sales, marketing, product management and engineering teams to ensure alignment and effective go-to-market execution
• Be an evangelist to further educate customers of generative AI and positioning PANW for securing AI projects

Your Experience

• 7+ years of technical professional experience including 3+ years of experience in AI and related fields, with a strong focus on technical sales, strategy and execution
• Proven track record of success contributing to high-performing technical sales or solution architecture teams
• Deep understanding of AI technologies, including machine learning, deep learning and generative AI
• Ideally, experienced with security solutions and the cybersecurity market, including data security, network security and security applied to generative AI
• Experience with popular generative AI tools and their security implications preferred
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing market conditions

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:

• Join the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions
• Build and cultivate strong customer relationships, driving business growth within the region.
• Partner with the core sales team to align customer strategies and engagements with Cortex and Cloud business objectives
• Take full ownership of leading strategic sales campaigns, sales forecasting, utilizing in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through procurement
• Engage in deep technical discussions beyond standard sales presentations and pitches; while translating complex technical cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions for customers
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales engineers, to provide tailored customer-centric solutions
• Partner with Alliances to develop joint strategies, enhance customer engagement and deliver innovative solutions for existing and prospective clients
• Travel domestically as needed to meet with customers and attend key business events

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to Enterprise or Major-level accounts
• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers
• Experience selling Cybersecurity, SIEM, EDR or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred
• Established trusted relationships with CIOs and CISOs with the ability to influence and drive strategic conversations
• Expertise in applying complex solution sales methodologies to drive results
• Experience working with channel partners and a deep understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market strategy
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while collaborating effectively with sales engineers and cross-functional teams
• Experience operating in a continuous adoption, expansion, and upsell sales motion within a matrixed sales organization is preferred
• Willingness to travel domestically as necessary to meet business needs

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

• Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area

• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership

• As the main technical point of contact for Cloud Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs.

• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition

• Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities

• Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area

• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation

• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture

• Accelerate technical validation of proposed solutions within your specialization

• Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions

• Help our customers build and develop further their services around Prisma Cloud

• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape

• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions

• Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance

• Implement organizational policies & help others adopt

• Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Your Experience

• 6+ years technical sales or equivalent experience highly preferred

• Hands-on experience using IaC software tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager etc) and CI/CD tools (IDEs, GitLab, GitHuB, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

• Experience with Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud configuration and administration of security features and services (including identity and access management, networking, firewalls, encryption)

• Deep experience in one or more cloud security areas such as Shift Left, CSPM, CWP, KSPM, CIEM, DSPM, AI-SPMBackground in security domain or cloud security highly preferred

• Understanding of container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.

• Proficient in English

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