Jobs at Palo Alto in South Africa, Johannesburg

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

Your Impact

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers working with Sales Specialists and the local partners
• Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
• Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified problems in each individual environment
• Delivering presentations/demonstrations to prospective and current clients, PoC (Proof of Concept), RFP/RFI response
• Ensure ongoing customer satisfaction, support, and adoption
• Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
• Understand and effectively differentiate Palo Alto Networks against the main competitors
• Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved

Your Experience

• 6+ years of Sales Engineering/Technical Pre-Sales experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Networking and Network Security (FW, Proxy, etc.)
  • Host Protection (EDR/EPP)
  • Identity Management
  • Data leakage prevention
  • RBI Experience
• Understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Excellent presentation and time management skills
• Proven track record selling complex cyber security enterprise solutions
• Ability to lead by example and be a player coach for the more junior team members
• Building strong relationships with key customers helping them achieve their goals
• Conducting technical discovery calls and meetings
• Work closely with Product and R&D teams to represent the customer and ensure deliverables are in line with customer requirements and specifications
• Self-starter who is driven by outcome and success with strong commercial acumen
• Ability to present complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audience
• Willingness to travel extensively

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 and Domain Consultant 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 and Domain 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.

• 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

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

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

Your Career

We are looking for a proven first-line sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and revenue growth for our sales team. This role will entail:

• Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities
• Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings
• Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure
• Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities
• Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team
• In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems
• Drive and oversee team selling opportunities
• Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks
• Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships
• Successfully influences others through change management
• Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values.

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry
• Experience with channel and partner sales models
• Proven leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment.
• Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results
• Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.
• Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues
• Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally; ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals.
• You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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

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

Your Career

We’re seeking a strategic and execution-driven Product Manager to shape and elevate our product experience. In this role, you’ll define new features, own core product areas, and lead cross-functional collaboration to deliver customer-focused solutions that set us apart in the market.

Your Impact

• Define and communicate the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and market trends.

• Translate customer needs and technical considerations into clear business and functional requirements across the product portfolio.

• Partner with UX to craft intuitive user experiences, focusing on workflows and dashboards that drive engagement and satisfaction.

• Collaborate with engineering, design, and GTM teams throughout the product lifecycle—from concept to launch—to deliver high-quality releases.

• Prioritize product initiatives based on customer insights, business value, and technical feasibility.

• Lead go-to-market readiness by working closely with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams.

• Serve as the voice of the customer by validating features, testing builds, and guiding post-launch iterations.

• Stay ahead of emerging trends in the Managed/Unmanaged Device and OT/IoT security landscape through ongoing research and competitive analysis.

• Act as a product evangelist for our AI/Deep Learning/ ML based Device Security solution, articulating the product vision and competitive differentiators to internal stakeholders, partners, and customers.

Your Experience

• 5–7 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Network Security (e.g., NGFWs, NAC), Vulnerability Management, or Endpoint Security (across IoT, OT, and IT domains), with at least 4 years in Product Management.

• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable product deliverables, working closely with world-class engineering teams.

• Creative, out-of-the-box thinker with a strong sense of market differentiation and innovation.

• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders — including Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams — to deliver high-impact outcomes.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build alignment across diverse teams and partners.

• Skilled in tracking cross-team deliverables, assessing risks, and managing resources and timelines to keep projects on schedule.

• Hands-on experience managing day-to-day product delivery operations; leadership in complex or large-scale project execution is a plus.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to information gathering and communication.

• Familiarity with building API-based integrations in partnership with technical stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver compelling presentations.

• Proficiency in data-driven decision-making using Excel or Google Sheets.

• Bonus: Industry familiarity in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Building Management Systems (BMS), or Utilities and experience working w/ OEMs such as GE, Cerner, Siemens, Rockwell, Yokogawa.

• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical or business discipline—or equivalent practical experience.

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 $180,000 - $220,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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 and 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 commercial accounts in the cybersecurity industry
• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers
• Experience selling 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
• Fluent English

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

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

Your Career

As a Distribution Business Manager (DBM) at Palo Alto Networks, you will drive our entire Sales & Channel engagement with distributors across the NextWave partner ecosystem across the Africa region. You will own the overall GTM relationship, defining the evolution of distributors’ businesses, headcount, investments, and go-to-market strategies each year based on regional priorities. Your role includes overall business execution and performance management with the distributor, augmenting the Enterprise & Commercial Segment needs with your DBM peers and associated sales segment leads.

Your Impact

• Provide necessary data and reports to distributors to set plan targets and KPIs.
• Schedule, prepare, and lead recurring Business Review meetings (QBRs) at least three times per year with cross-functional audience
• Meet with Distributors to update the annual business plan with previous quarter’s results and set targets for the new quarter
• Establish senior executive relationships and leverage rapport with distributors’ executives to influence investments
• Lead monthly updates with the distributor(s) to cover relevant new company information
• Increase the distributor’s quoting utilization and provide adequate training
• Manage semi-annual NextWave Program Compliance efforts for Distribution Managed Partners
• Work closely with the Renewals team and distributors to improve renewals process efficiency
• Build and monitor plans with distributors to drive attendance to important events
• Give face-to-face presentations to distributors at the start of each quarter
• Facilitate cadence of 'Peering' between local management teams
• Handle escalations related to day-to-day order processing and Distributor Credit situations
• Be onsite at a local distributor at each end of month / EOQ
• Manage the Distribution Rebates by setting targets and defining MBOs
• Manage all processes and documentation related to Distribution Development Funds (DDF)
• Lead weekly forecast call with each local distributor

Your Experience

• 5 – 7 years of distribution or channel management experience
• 2 – 3 years of channel sales management experience in vendor environments
• Working knowledge and experience selling technology solutions
• Proven experience influencing senior-level partner executives
• Ability to develop complex partner and territory plans and strategies
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to describe market transitions
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and professionally
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and manage virtual sales teams
• Strong time management, organizational, and negotiation skills
• Professional IT Sales and business development experience
• Strong public speaking skills

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

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

You will center your role on relationship management to achieve measurable results in increased revenue, market share, and depth within each partner sales team. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of unique business plans with each potential. You’ll be measured primarily on the joint business executed with each partner. You’ll be working within all levels of large partner organizations and possess a commitment that focuses on developing partnerships based on the long term, “outcome where everybody wins” strategy.

Your Impact

• Develop and execute business plans driving all aspects of the partner relationship to maximize growth opportunities and ensuring the partner is well-positioned to deliver successful customer implementations and recommendations
  
• Work well in a team environment to ensure partner and customer satisfaction
  
• Design a compelling value proposition that inspires partners to promote our solutions
  
• Create services based on our emerging and established technologies increasing revenue growth
  
• Provide clear and consistent communication across the region with your dedicated partners to build strong partnerships throughout your assignment
  
• Lead regular business performance and relationship reviews with senior management and various stakeholders
  
• Build and maintain the activity of performance reports and activity dashboards

Your Experience

• Experience in Global Systems Integrator Business Management, Channel Management, or Business Development roles within the enterprise software ecosystem and/or network security industry
  
• Understanding of channel operating models (GSI and VARS)
  
• Knowledge of sales, marketing, and solution development
  
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ability to think creatively with excellent presentation, written, and overall communication skills
  
• Consistent track record of leading complex sales situations through negotiation and conflict resolution

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