Cortex Cloud Sales Specialist jobs at Palo Alto in United States, New York

* This role can be based in either our Santa Clara, CA or New York City office with a hybrid schedule of at least 3 days/week in office.*

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

Your Impact

• Act as key business partner & Chief of Staff to the President of Strategic Accounts and regional sales management team; establish, maintain, refine the rhythm of business

• Drive forecasting, deal structuring and participate in a month-end and quarter-end close process

  • Set up cadences for inspection of quarterly targets and forecasts

  • Optimize forecast accuracy by driving discipline with pipeline hygiene and forecast management

  • Facilitate tracking of outstanding purchase orders, ensuring order compliance, bookings reports, etc

  • Manage compliance of the non-standard transactions process; track quarterly metrics on average discounts, non-standard exceptions and recommend actions to improve these metrics

• Drive sales planning, account strategy & quarterly business review meetings with the sales management team

  • Run data analytics and partner with finance/market intelligence teams to assess TAM, product propensity to buy and optimize territory coverage

  • Work closely with sales management on GTM segmentation and coverage strategy implementation

  • Own and drive annual planning exercise for Strategic accounts - quota setting, territory & organization design

  • Partner with sales leadership to drive account & opportunity planning motion

• Manage all aspects of operations, tools, dashboards and reporting

  • Review and identify areas for improvement leading to operational efficiency

  • Assist in driving field readiness for new sales hires and ongoing sales processes training; Coordinate activities and priorities of enablement functions to improve alignment to sales strategy

  • Set up and manage sales programs to drive pipe generation and growth in accounts

  • Manage sales compensation escalations with the Sales Compensation team

  • Work closely with Finance, Sales Compensation and Central Analytics teams to develop & maintain scorecards and dashboards that bring transparency into business performance and arms sales leadership with insights needed to drive their business

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in an enterprise subscription software sales strategy & operations role supporting large/strategic accounts

• Knowledge of SaaS / subscription based business models and associated KPIs (Retention & Renewal Rates, ARR, Expansion & Cross-Sell Rates, etc), sales processes and methodologies

• Proficiency with CRM & connected planning systems (e.g., Salesforce, Pigment, Anaplan)

• Attention to detail and ability to execute

• Strong business acumen and judgment, analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to structure solutions to complex problems; Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, SQL & Tableau

• Strong communication & collaboration skills and the ability to effectively partner with all levels of management; Proficiency in PowerPoint/Google Slides

• Self-starter, highly motivated with insatiable curiosity to learn about and influence the business

• Works well within a matrixed environment, with ability to manage simultaneous projects, and tight deadlines

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 $145,000 - $213,000/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.

Bangalore / Mumbai

Your Impact

• Working with Services Sales to articulate PANW unique perspective on GTM services, credentialing delivery competency, IP and expertise using success stories to meet customer needs

• Gathering, understanding and defining customer specific requirements and expectations for value based outcomes in workshop based scenarios

• Collaborating with Services Sales, Delivery and Global Practices to construct solution proposals and Statements of Work to satisfy customer specific scope requirements and value-based outcomes

• Collaborating with Services Sales to drive business growth for PANW Services in your aligned territory

Your Experience

• Proven track record in technical consulting, pre-sales and/or delivery experience, working within an IT or Cyber Security services organization

• Self-motivated and detail-oriented

• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills

• Demonstrated experience in discovery/scope definition workshops with cross-functional internal and customer resources to prepare current state/future state roadmaps and services proposals

• Highly proficient around network infrastructure based security appliances, including but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Public Cloud environments including AWS, Azure and GCP, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) securing applications from code to cloud

• Security Operations (SecOps) experience is desirable

• PANW Platform experience is desirable

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, XDR, SOC and SOAR 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. 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 Career

In this role, you will be an integral part of a group of Software and ML engineers that continuously surveys petabytes of data to find risks online and protect some of the world's most important and relied upon organizations from malicious software and hackers. You will directly contribute to our mission by building AI/ML systems that increase the effectiveness of our security products, and you will directly work with stakeholders to define, design and implement improvements to our software.

Your Impact

• Prototype, build, and improve AI systems and ML models, including large language model (LLM) and generative AI applications, to automate and enhance team workflows

• Strengthen infrastructure for data ETL, model training and lifecycle, MLOps, batch and real-time processing, and inference

• Mentor and coach other ML engineers on developing, fine-tuning, and evaluating both traditional and generative AI models

• Work directly with security professionals who use your software and AI systems every day to help them be more effective and improve the quality of their work

• Develop feature engineering, data pipelines, and transformations to deliver reliable data for model training and LLM inference

• Measure and refine model performance through metrics-driven evaluations and continuous experimentation

• Deliver, monitor, and continually improve secure AI and ML systems in production, including LLM-powered tools and automation features

Your Experience

• Experience with Python including delivering production-quality code and debugging in a production environment

• Expertise in one or more of:

  • MLOps expertise (e.g. Feature Store, Model Serving, Model Monitoring)

  • Data Engineering expertise (e.g. Airflow, Apache Beam, Dataflow, SQL)

  • Designing and building applications powered by LLMs and generative AI (for example: retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent search, entity linking, summarization, conversational interfaces, automated reasoning, and code understanding)

  • Applying modern AI techniques including LLMs, embeddings, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering, using frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI API, and PyTorch

• Experience operating ML systems in production environments

• Conceptual thinking and creativity; you demonstrate an ability to consider various techniques to solve different modeling problems we face

• Ability to collaborate and to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 $157,200 - $254,100/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

• Collaborate with sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Responsible for prospective customers and partners' Technical Validation projects based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Document high-level design and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• As the main technical point of contact for Network Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

Your Experience

• 3+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering within Zero Trust, Networking, Network Security, SaaS Security or SSE/SASE
• Outstanding customer communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Solid understanding of NGFW, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, CASB, Proxy, DLP and BYOD Solutions
• Advanced knowledge of On-Premise and Cloud-Delivered Network Security Technologies
• High level of German language skills, business fluent in 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

You are required to exceed your quota, obtain/maintain subject matter expertise, create/update detailed written plans, and regularly present to a variety of audiences (large and small, live and virtual).

Your Impact

• Ability to work in partnership with your respective geography’s leadership to engage the SASE portfolio to customers, partners, and colleagues
• Perform high-level sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business
• Build a fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
• Bring to bear all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota.
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Conduct in-person sessions, webinars and learning materials that can be consumed by the appropriate audience
• Identify cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within accounts
• Educate customers and partners on the modern network security landscape
• Establish relationships with and sell through channel partners
• Travel 50% + throughout the Western US, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field or technical sales selling SASE or SD-WAN for a multinational organization
• Above quota sales experience in a high-tempo culture
• Experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances including, but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches, SD-WAN
• Practical experience working with routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to our appliances
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbally
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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 $256000 - $352000/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.