Senior Competitive Strategy Analyst jobs at Palo Alto

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1. Strategic Partner to the CPO

• Partner with the CPO to develop, evolve, and operationalize the multi-year People Strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation objectives.

• Act as a connector and integrator across all People sub-functions, including Talent, Total Rewards, DEI, Learning, HR Tech, and Places, bringing cohesion and clarity to the collective strategy.

• Support the PLT in setting and prioritizing strategic initiatives that enable scale, impact, and transformation.

2. Strategic Planning & KPI Governance

• Lead the People Team’s strategic planning and goal-setting process, ensuring tight alignment with company-level OKRs.

• Develop and maintain a People Strategy Dashboard that tracks performance against key enterprise and People metrics, including leadership confidence, engagement, performance differentiation, and efficiency.

• Drive accountability by ensuring the PLT measures what matters, reports outcomes consistently, and uses data to guide decision-making.

3. Transformation Design & Strategic Governance

• Structure and frame People-related transformation initiatives

• Provide strategic scaffolding and governance models for initiatives led across the People function, ensuring alignment, sequencing, and clarity of ownership.

• Serve as the strategic interface between the People Team and Corp Strategy and or other Transformation Offices to ensure synchronization of priorities.

4. Executive and Board Communications

• Lead the creation of executive and Board-facing communications that articulate the People Strategy and progress against key priorities.

• Develop clear, data-driven narratives and materials for Board updates, executive off-sites, and quarterly business reviews, reflecting the strategic maturity of the People function.

• Translate analytics and insights into concise, compelling stories that demonstrate organizational impact, transformation outcomes, and future priorities.

5. Research, Benchmarking & Strategic Insight

• Conduct market and best-practice research across high-growth and technology peers to inform the evolution of Palo Alto Networks’ People Strategy.

• Act as the internal strategist who anticipates talent and organizational needs based on external trends and internal data.

Your Experience

• 8–12 years of experience in People Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Management Consulting, ideally within a high-growth or technology environment.

• Demonstrated success in strategy development, organizational design, and enterprise planning at scale.

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; able to integrate data, insight, and storytelling into actionable strategies.

• Exceptional communication and presentation capability, with experience preparing materials for senior executives and Boards of Directors.

• Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• High learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments.

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 $218,600 - $299,925/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 Career

As a Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in planning and executing the product marketing strategy for our data security offerings. You will be the expert, voice, and go-to-market driver for Palo Alto Networks’ data security capabilities. You will drive positioning, messaging, content creation, and sales enablement for the product line that you are responsible for. You will work closely with stakeholders from product management, sales, field marketing, and technology partners to develop and execute your strategy and advance our mission.

Your Impact

• Apply your data security knowledge to translate product capabilities into simple, compelling messages and tools that resonate with customers, with a clear understanding of the target markets and buyer personas

• Work closely with Product Management to build a shared market and product vision, and a cooperative relationship that forms the foundation of all product marketing activities

• Author compelling, high-quality content, both at a business and a technical level, in a variety of formats including print, web, social media, and video. You like to write and present

• Launch products and collaborate with field teams to execute marketing campaigns; be a subject matter expert and a go-to resource for the sales and field marketing teams

• Effectively work at building and executing plans that cross different functional groups, including product management, business development, and sales

• Represent the company in customer engagements and at events, to evangelize our point of view

• Track the data security market and competitive landscape in collaboration with product, marketing, and sales leadership

Your Experience

• 5+ years of product marketing experience ideally with 3+ years in data security or adjacent cybersecurity solutions..

• An understanding of data security technologies, market trends, competitive landscape, and customer requirements is desirable

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Comfortable with creating and delivering presentations in a range of environments, from industry conferences to customer briefings

• Demonstrated record of working cross-functionally to drive sales, demand generation, and overall organization and business success

• Experience and innovative energy to champion successful market and competitive disruption initiatives

• Bachelor’s degree required, Technical degree or equivalent background or equivalent military experience is desirable

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 $131,000 - $212,500/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.

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

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Marketing Manager for our Cortex Cloud platform, you’ll be the hands-on technical expert who brings our Cloud Security products to life—transforming powerful capabilities into clear, compelling experiences for customers, partners, and internal teams. Whether you're building immersive demos, crafting technical content, or leading live workshops, you’ll serve as the essential link between product, marketing, and the field.

In this role, you’ll create and deliver high-impact outbound technical assets—including demo videos, technical blog posts, solution guides, and hands-on workshop content designed to educate, engage, and inspire. You’ll present at industry conferences, customer webinars, and internal events, translating product innovation into real-world use cases.

Your Impact

• Create and execute a technical marketing plan for Cortex Cloud

• Develop and deliver compelling technical demos, videos, and walkthroughs that showcase Cortex Cloud’s capabilities in real-world scenarios

• Create hands-on content such as capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges, technical workshops, and lab exercises for customer events and field enablement.

• Write deep-dive technical blog posts, tutorials, and how-to guides to explain features, use cases, and integrations.

• Present product overviews, best practices, product demos, and threat research in virtual webinars and at in-person events, seminars, and executive briefings.

• Serve as a technical SME for Cortex Cloud, working closely with product management to influence roadmap and feature prioritization.

• Support pre-sales and customer success teams with technical enablement content and field-facing tools.

• Collaborate with marketing to ensure technical accuracy across product messaging, campaigns, and field assets.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in a technical marketing, product management, product marketing, or sales engineering role, ideally in cybersecurity

• Strong understanding of cloud security, (e.g. CNAPP, CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, CDR, etc.) and application security.

• Bachelor’s degree required, technical degree or equivalent education is desirable

• Comfortable with creating and delivering presentations in a range of environments, from industry conferences to customer briefings

• Experience building and delivering technical demos, videos, and workshops

• Excellent technical writing skills—able to explain complex topics clearly and concisely to technical audiences

• Confident speaker with experience presenting to both technical and business stakeholders

• Strong understanding of the competitive landscape for CNAPP, CDR and application security solutions.

• Demonstrates strong initiative, a results-oriented mindset, and ability to ramp up quickly.

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 $155,000 - $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

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and maintain detailed ASC 740 (Income Tax Accounting) workpapers, calculations, and supporting documentation for quarterly and annual financial reporting.
• Support NCTI (Net CFC Tested Income) calculations, including the preparation of ADS (Alternative Depreciation System) depreciation schedules and other relevant adjustments.
• Maintain the Tax provision datasets on quarterly and annual basis.
• Support Annual Withholding Tax Return for U.S. Source Income of Foreign Persons (Form 1042) analysis to ensure compliance with U.S. withholding tax regulations.
• Monitor tax updates and legislation changes to support overall tax function
• Identify and mitigate company risks and communicate areas of potential exposure within the reporting and compliance processes
• Assist with ad-hoc projects as needed

Your Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of related experience; previous Big 4 experience a plus
• Proficient with OneSource Tax Provision (OTP) required
• Proficient with Corptax compliance software
• Alteryx experience a plus
• Proficiency in leveraging AI/ML and GenAI to automate ASC 740 and compliance workflows, assessing associated risks.
• Comfortable working with different IT applications, such as SAP
• The ability to operate independently and represent the tax function in cross-functional settings
• Must be self-directed with strong organizational skills, and receptive to working in a dynamic, and fast-paced environment in multiple time zones
• Analytical mind-set to approaching problems and strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize work, and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Must be local to SF Bay area to be onsite.

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 $98000 - $156000/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

• Deliver accurate revenue and RPO forecasts as part of the Close the Quarter process
• Assess topline impact of internal initiatives, new opportunities, and accounting policy changes
• Establish new processes and improve existing processes for topline reporting & visibility, including topics such as renewals revenue streams, registration behavior, and theater performance
• Prepare regular reporting packages, including CFO topline insights, executive team / Board of Directors content, and internal / external auditor close requirements
• Provide financial support for M&A activities, including analysis and integration planning
• Investigate and provide insights to ad hoc C-suite requests

Your Experience

• 7+ years related experience showing strong career progression and prior topline ownership. Prior Corporate FP&A experience and familiarity with US GAAP revenue standards for technology companies/SaaS companies are both a plus
• Experience working with a combination of bookings, RPO, revenue, and ARR
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable reporting solutions, leveraging Tableau and Pigment to improve accuracy, automation, and visibility of key metrics.
• Familiarity in managing large datasets, applying relevant statistical frameworks and concepts, and deriving executive-level insights
• Strong experience with Google Workplace (Sheets & Slides), Microsoft Excel, SAP, and Tableau. Pigment experience is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Business/Finance or related field (or equivalent military experience) is a plus

Your Qualities

• Analytical thinker, with a desire to dig into and understand the details - and connect to the big picture
• Willingness and ability to adapt to rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment
• Team player with strong communication and presentation skills
• Independent with enthusiasm for solving unstructured questions and providing thought leadership

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 $185,000 - $210,000/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 Career

As the Principal, Product and Pricing Strategy you will be shaping the future of our security business. You are a seasoned strategist (ideally with a mix of significant strategy consulting and in-house experience) with hands-on product and pricing strategy experience and depth in Enterprise Tech (cybersecurity preferred). The scope of this role spans conception of strategy all the way through execution. You will be accountable for shaping the strategy and delivering operations for the product business. Balancing big-picture thinking and C-suite level influencing skills with a nose-for-value and ‘roll up your sleeves’ mindset is critical. This role works with a disruptive team of strategy professionals (most are former MBB consultants) that are highly valued by the C-Suite and executives within Palo Alto Networks.

Pricing Strategy

• Track market and competitor trends and moves

• Develop pricing structures and models: define list prices, discount structures, promotional offers, bundling strategies

• Lead pricing analysis and research: conduct detailed analysis of internal data (sales trends, costs) and external data (competitor pricing, market demand); benchmarking

• Review and develop guidelines for deal and commercial structures

• Program management to land pricing / deal related programs

Product Strategy

• Own and Lead the development of long term product strategies

• Track competitive product strategies

• Build segment and market specific plans to drive product growth

• Drive strategic x-functional projects based on c-suite priorities

• Provide systematic support & analysis for priorities (e.g., competitive tear-downs, narrative re-write and enablement)

• Engage closely with Product Management and Product Marketing to identify opportunities and gaps in the business to increase awareness, propose solutions/choices and develop programmatic responses

• Track the market, collate customer feedback and understand competitive movement, to influence product roadmap

• Maintain a view of M&A opportunities

Your Experience

• 15+ years of total experience in product development and strategy, including MBA from a top-10 b-school

• Significant experience in a top tier consulting firm (BCG, Bain, McKinsey- either current or in the past) and / or top enterprise tech companies

• Demonstrated product and pricing strategy experience - developing and rolling out programs, driving x-functional initiatives with product and engineering teams

• Material Enterprise Tech experience with a deep understanding of Cybersecurity / SaaS business models and key levers to scale

• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on attention to detail, identify patterns, and process information quickly to deliver against tight deadlines

• Proven ability to engage with and influence CxOs in corporate environments

• Ability to build and nurture a team

• Extreme accountability mindset - focused outcomes and thinks like an ‘owner’

The Cloud and Cortex Product Strategy and Operations team works at the heart of Palo Alto Networks. The team tackles cross-functional strategic initiatives across all parts of our Cloud and Cortex organization and across all functions. We take on the most challenging and mission-critical initiatives to drive and support our industry-leading growth and overall trajectory. We work on projects that have C-Level sponsorship and are trusted partners to all our senior executives at Palo Alto Networks.

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 $218,600 - $285,600/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 Career

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will contribute to the entire development lifecycle of our systems. Your responsibilities will range from designing and building scalable backend services and APIs to developing robust frameworks and internal tools. You will work on creating efficient, reliable systems that support our platform's core functionalities and enable other engineering teams to build and innovate effectively.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and maintain the core services and data pipelines for our Attack Surface Management platform.

• Take part in architecture strategy sessions—work with your colleagues to design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various modules across Cortex.

• Collaborate with your team to solve problems, reduce technical debt, and evolve development practices.

• Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering organization.

• Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output.

• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designing, developing, deploying, and supporting complex, scalable software systems.

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Golang.

• Extensive experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes.

• Working knowledge of data processing frameworks and tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Beam, or similar).

• Significant experience with software development best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and agile methodologies.

• Significant experience working with at least one major cloud platform (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure), and their data services.

• Proven experience driving design and implementation of technical solutions in the face of ambiguity—we will ask you about this.

• Experience and interest in mentoring other engineers in order to contribute to the technical growth of the team.

In this role, you will be an integral part of the group that enables customers to engage with their data through our web application. You will work across teams to architect solutions to some of our most challenging technical problems, then lead projects to implement them, including designing and building data models, APIs, and user interfaces for user-facing features. You will draw upon your experience to rapidly investigate and prototype new functionality, then switch to implementation mode to deliver products. You will guide and mentor your team in enterprise software development, architecture and technical design, and the evaluation thereof. You will represent your team in technical roadmap planning and cross-team design review sessions, working regularly with senior engineers from other teams, UX designers, and product managers.

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 $160000 - $230000/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.