Ecosystem Acceleration Lead - Cortex jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Atlanta

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

Your Impact

• Architect the Cortex single-thread narrative (Enablement → Activation → Capabilities → Demand Gen → Pipeline) and ensure every partner interaction ties to measurable pipeline and revenue.

• Partner to design Cortex sales plays and activation frameworks that guide Field CBMs, partner sellers, and extended ecosystem teams through account targeting, value messaging, and repeatable joint pursuit motions.

• Drive district-level activation by equipping partners and Field CBMs with targeted account guidance, pipeline patterns, repeatable enablement motions, and structured Cortex teaming-agreement models.

• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment across Channel Business Managers, NCBMs, Cortex sales, Cortex SEs, marketing, and extended ecosystem resources to ensure unified execution and handoff clarity.

• Accelerate joint pursuit activities by coordinating partner and PANW teams around Cortex opportunities, increasing platform attach, technical validation, and win rates.

• Partner to Develop partner capacity and capability plans to ensure partners achieve Cortex certifications, technical readiness, SOC assessment expertise, and repeatable deployment capability.

• Lead executive business reviews that establish clear milestones, measure progress against the Cortex activation cycle, and drive accountability across partner and PANW teams.

Your Experience

• 10+ years in channel management, ecosystem leadership, partner development, or business development within enterprise technology (cybersecurity strongly preferred)

• Strong experience with XDR, SIEM, SOC transformation, automation/orchestration, or threat operations — or the ability to quickly become fluent in Cortex GTM motions

• Proven success operationalizing GTM frameworks across cross-functional teams and partner organizations

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across sales, channel, marketing, SE leadership, and extended ecosystem resources

• Excellent relationship-building skills with senior partner executives and internal leadership

• Clear track record of generating measurable business outcomes: partner activation, teaming agreements, SOC assessments, pipeline creation, and revenue growth

• Strong understanding of enterprise, commercial, and major-accounts motions within cybersecurity

• Ability to shift seamlessly between strategic design and hands-on operational execution

• High discernment across sales, technical readiness, solution development, and partner capability-building

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly matrixed, virtual environment

• Technical understanding of XDR, SIEM, automation, SOC workflows, or adjacent technologies is a plus

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 $ 225000 - $ 281000 /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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

● Exciting opportunity to be a leader on the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions.

● Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.

● Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.

● Drive strategic sales initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.

● Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.

● Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales engineers, marketing, and alliances, to support deal execution and customer success.

● Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.

Your Experience

● 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

● Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment with large quota/deals

● Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling and enterprise buying processes with operational discipline

● Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred.

● Established relationships with key security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs) and the ability to drive strategic conversations.

● Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization with a focus on continuous expansion and customer success

● “Whatever it takes” attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

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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$322000 - $443500/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

• Responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
• Develop solid understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security & Networking concepts to others
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

Your Experience

• 5+ years of career-level software development experience
• Strong go getter/can-do attitude
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience building highly available, scalable and performant systems. Fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies
• Extensive hands-on programming skills in React, React Query, Highcharts, webpack and Sass with test frameworks like Vitest, Jest, and Playwright.
• Experience with GraphQL, Flask framework, Bootstrap, jQuery, Backbone.js and Marionette.js is desirable.
• Candidates should have experience building performant UI applications utilizing micro frontend architecture with emphasis on dev-driven UT, Component, and Integration Tests.
• Experience on with Cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, Kubernetes Virtualization, such as ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V
• Experience with Large Scale Distributed systems with service-oriented architecture

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environmen

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 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.

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 $256,000/yr to $352,000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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 Select 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

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 $206,000/yr to $284,000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

• Deliver marketing campaigns across customer segments and industries, extending throughout the marketplace and broader ecosystem to generate demand, build awareness and strengthen the partnership globally. In this capacity, you will oversee all aspects of marketing within the partnership; including event strategy, digital marketing, content development, core messaging and positioning, creative direction, marketing plans, sales enablement, and budget management (including co-fund sources).
• Cultivate relationships with internal and external Alliances and collaborates with stakeholders to drive pipeline through successful co-marketing programs with our cloud provider partners and create a preference for PANW integrated solutions with AWS.
• Establish the marketing strategy and executing programs with strong project management skills.
• Lead the marketing strategy to achieve goals aligned to business objectives of the Global Strategic Alliances organization and marketing.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the global AWS alliance partner teams and internal stakeholders and motivate the partner to provide additional joint marketing opportunities.
• Drive proactive and streamlined collaboration cross-functionally with Alliances, Global Regions, PMM, Sales, and Partner Ecosystems teams to build consensus and deliver results that strengthen the business overall.
• Build the strategy and ensure the execution of multi-channel, multi-partner programs: working with global teams, extended stakeholder teams and partner teams to build integrated marketing plans.
• Champions the development of compelling joint value propositions and positioning to engage customers and accelerate adoption of joint solutions.
• Develop a world-class digital experience to drive demand to AWS Marketplace listings to drive Paygo subscriptions, Free Trials and influence Private Offers.
• Develop account-based engagement and nurture programs with relevance to target accounts to derive value from top of the funnel demand generation investments; leverage the ability of CSPs to increase deal size and velocity, and work with sales to facilitate engagement and deal flow.
• Set, track, and report progress against KPIs and ROI metrics, including regular readouts on the performance of partner marketing programs. Conduct quarterly marketing reviews with key alliance executives (internal and partner) to review success and progress, identify gaps and maintain executive alignment and support.
• Must be comfortable working in a self-directed environment and independently execute many marketing deliverables including value propositions, solution briefs, global marketing plans, and multi-city events.

Your Experience

• Proven track record of success in a partner marketing role within an ISV and/or CSP is required. Cybersecurity industry experience is preferred.
• 10+ years of enterprise marketing experience including partner marketing
• Demonstrable experience and expertise working with organizations such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and other Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Systems Integrators (SIs)
• Good communication (written and verbal), reporting, and presentation skills
• Ability to work in a highly cross-functional environment to drive outcome-based plans, programs, and execution
• Understanding of a broad range of marketing activities, disciplines, and tactics, including field marketing, digital marketing, and industry events
• Demonstrated pipeline impact of partnerships and programs
• Highly motivated, self-starter that can build and launch programs and communications within budget and effectively manage multiple timelines

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 $152000 - $245500/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, 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 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

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 $256,000/yr to $352,000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.