Solutions Consultant - Majors Boston jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Boston

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

Your Career

Consulting Director, Reactive Services is a senior-level consulting position. The individual will provide expert-level guidance on all areas of cybersecurity and data breach response to Unit 42 clients across a wide array of industries, geographies, and organizational structures. They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this area.

Your Impact

• You are an Industry-recognized inspiring leader with media and public speaking experience, deeply embedded in information security community

• Experience with forensic processes and procedures (chain of custody, computer acquisition techniques, and memory acquisition techniques)

• Maintain hyper-current knowledge of extant vulnerabilities and threat landscape

• Experience using forensics tools such as EnCase, FTK, SleuthKit, Volatility, etc.

• Analysis experience and operational understanding of one or more major operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac)

• Knowledge of common malware persistence mechanisms

• Experience identifying and triaging malware

• Experience leading technical breach response teams in fast-paced environment

• 10 years of hands-on consulting experience in digital forensics, and incident response

Your Experience

• Strategic mindset but also detail-oriented and hands-on ability to lead high-level discussion on DFIR technology strategy and approach both internally and externally

• Demonstrated self-starter with intellectual curiosity and ability to adapt to change

• Ability to work quickly, willingness to work on ad hoc assignments, work independently or leading teams as needed

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to develop unique and creative solutions to problems on the fly

• Willingness to learn new technologies and techniques to solve complex customer issues

• Ability to manage clients, lead meetings, and manage multiple project teams concurrently

• Ability to quickly develop and maintain rapport with clients

• Demonstrated ability to cross-sell or upsell existing clients and generate new business

• Experience managing complex budgets

• Ability to allocate staff to various projects quickly and efficiently

• Willingness to travel as required (up to 20%) to support leadership, customer briefings, planning and other activity as needed

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 $183,000 - $252,000/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, 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

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.

• Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.

• Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.

• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers

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

• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences

• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy.

• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner

• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating PANW's leadership in the cybersecurity space

• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events

• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• 3+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering or graduate of Palo Alto Networks Academy Program

• Foundational knowledge of one or more of Networking, Security Operations, Cloud and Application Security

• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred

• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal

• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements

• 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

• Understanding of sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred

• 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

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 $173,000 - $237,500/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.