Senior Executive Assistant jobs at Palo Alto

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

This role is required to be in office at either our Santa Clara, Reston, Plano or New York offices. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Your Career

This involves:

• Building bold, sharp positioning and driving Go-to-Market (GTM) programs to ensure the successful launch and adoption of our new TI services.

• Amplifying our elite threat intelligence research to establish Unit 42 as the ultimate thought leader in the industry.

Your Impact

• The work you do will directly reinforce Unit 42’s reputation and drive tangible business results across Palo Alto Networks. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Service Launch & GTM Leadership: Spearhead the launch of new Threat Intelligence services – planning the release, managing messaging, positioning, collateral development, and driving the product launch.

• Thought Leadership & Content: Build strong, sharp product marketing content, including blogs, reports, videos, and presentations, focused on the Unit 42 Threat Intelligence services and research.

  • Partner with our threat research team to communicate clear and powerful messages to establish and differentiate Unit 42 as the ultimate thought leader in the industry.

  • Work closely with other Unit 42 teams to contribute to annual research reports that generate awareness and thought leadership and drive conversations about the threat landscape.

• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Track the threat intelligence market and competitive landscape in collaboration with product, marketing, and sales leadership.

• Campaigns & Awareness Support: Launching campaigns & programs – creating content for digital media, websites, and customer presentations to create awareness, demand, and engagement.

• Sales Enablement & Portfolio Differentiation: Enabling sales teams to understand the value proposition and key differentiators—creating and delivering presentations at internal sales events on how Unit 42 differentiates the portfolio across all Palo Alto Networks offerings.

• Analyst Engagement: Leading the analyst engagements and presentations to drive awareness and get an outside-in perspective.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of product marketing experience , ideally with 5+ years in cybersecurity.

• Experience with developing and leading innovative GTM programs to drive customer adoption is strongly preferred.

• Deep understanding of the Threat Intelligence and security consulting markets.

• 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.

• Strong written communication is necessary to develop extremely simple and clear messaging, collateral, tools and content for clients, partners & sales.

• 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 $193,000 - $230,000/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, you will be the, including full-time employees and/or assigned personnel. You will be responsible for driving leadership over the professional services business and providing strategic and operational oversight to the Senior Managers and regional delivery leaders who report to this role. You will be instrumental in defining thenecessary to scale technical services delivery across key U.S. Federal, State, and Local accounts. This role is highly integrated with the Service Sales, Product Sales, and other Support teams, focusing on building strong, trusted customer relationships and ensuring successful outcomes.

Your Impact

• Set the strategic vision and direction for all post-sales technical service delivery in the US Public Sector, ensuring consistent and high-quality execution for Palo Alto Networks’ NetSec Products.

• Act as the single point of accountability for technical services, interfacing with GCS, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Partner teams to ensure alignment and delivery of business outcomes.

• Serve as the Executive Sponsor for strategic US Public Sector accounts, engaging with executive-level customer stakeholders (e.g., CIOs, CISOs) to provide value reviews and resolve high-stakes escalated issues.

• Build and develop a high-performing team of technical professionals through hiring the best talent in the industry, mentoring/coaching, and performance management in line with the defined capability requirements for the team.

• Drive and achieve the following business and operational objectives:

  • Maintain consistently high utilization of PS consultants through optimal planning and backlog management.

  • Design and maintain the best resource mix across FTEs and contractors, maximizing quality and agility.

  • Reduce Time to Value (TTV) by accelerating deployment and adoption timelines.

  • Contribute to Service Sales Growth by enabling scalable, value-driven technical offerings.

  • Achieve global target service margin ratios through delivery efficiency and cost control.

  • Build and sustain strong, strategic relationships with subcontractors and delivery partners.

  • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction (CSAT) through proactive support and continuous improvement.

• Drive continuous improvement across the delivery of Netsec Professional Services and Customer Success Engineering, through the use of Automation and AI to drive efficiency, quality, and scale.

• Standardize and continuously optimize the NetSec operating rhythm and delivery practices to improve service health.

• Represent US Public Sector region at a global level, sharing customer insights, local challenges, and opportunities for regional impact.

• A significant portion of your impact is external: collaborating with the sales leadership team, product, portfolio, and support teams, where you will act as the Professional Services liaison to enable client success. You will build strong customer relationships and be the point of contact for successfully handling customer escalations to maintain high customer satisfaction.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in technical services, professional services, customer success, support or related functions within a high-growth SaaS/cloud enterprise environment.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing regional teams, including direct and matrixed reporting lines.
• Demonstrated success in managing performance against KPIs related to deployment, adoption, margin, utilization, and CSAT.
• Strong foundational understanding of Internet security concepts and products, with a demonstrated knowledge of NGFW and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture and its components.
• Demonstrated experience running a profitable Professional Services or Customer Success business , including achieving revenue/margin targets, managing backlog, health and optimizing project closure rates.

• Skilled in key business systems, including:

  • Experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools (e.g., Clarizen, Certina, Kantata) for tracking metrics like utilization, time-off, and backlog.
  • Experience with Sales Management tools (e.g., Salesforce) for revenue forecasting and pipeline review.
  • Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Tableau) for reporting on key operational metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage critical customer escalations effectively and ensure prompt resolution for high-profile clients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical knowledge to non-technical individuals and leadership.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field (CS, IS, EE, CE, IT, etc.) or commensurate experience.
• US Government DoD Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP and/or PMP are highly desirable.
• Background in cybersecurity or enterprise IT preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25%+ domestically to customer sites and internal business meetings.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $230000 - $268000/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

• Own the entire product lifecycle, with proven experience taking an IT product from Zero to One.

• Define and champion the holistic vision, strategy, and roadmap for a suite of IT products for opportunity management, account planning, pipeline visibility, and seller coaching

• Enable sales leaders with powerful forecasting tools, scenario modeling, and performance dashboards that convert data into decisions.

• Build a cohesive and intelligent seller workspace that serves as a personalized cockpit, surfacing the right accounts, AI driven action plan, and insights at the right time.

• Identify, scope, and drive the embedding of AI solutions into the core sales journey to automate tasks, provide intelligent guidance, and optimize decision-making.

• Maintain a working knowledge of cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning technologies and their practical application in sales cycles

• Demonstrate exceptional strength in Stakeholder Management, effectively communicating product vision, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and guidance to a team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, overseeing the definition of detailed product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, fostering a culture of creativity, accountability, and collaboration.

• Work closely with Engineering, UX/UI, and QA teams in an Agile environment to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.

Your Experience

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise IT with 5+ years of experience in sales domain

• Proven success building products from the ground up and scaling them across global sales teams.

• 5+ years of leadership experience, managing and mentoring senior-level product managers.

• Deep product expertise in CRM platforms and Forecasting platforms in B2B Sales.

• Fluency in modern UX principles — with a passion for designing clean, guided experiences that reduce cognitive load for sellers.

• Experience applying AI/ML to enhance sales intelligence, automate workflows, and personalize seller journeys.

• Exceptional storytelling and stakeholder influence skills — you know how to build alignment and drive urgency.

• Passion for measuring what matters — defining KPIs tied to seller adoption, velocity, and revenue outcomes.

• Preferred:

• Experience with specific AI applications in the B2B context, such as predictive next best action, intelligent content recommendation, sales forecasting, co-pilot interfaces or conversational AI for Sellers.

• Familiarity with cloud-based ML platforms

• Demonstrated ability to partner with geographically distributed teams and external vendors to deliver impactful and scalable solutions

• A proactive self-starter who excels in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• The ideal candidate will have experience leading large-scale transformations in seller enablement or digital sales productivity.

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 $169000 - $282500/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

Palo Alto Networks boasts a world-class product management organization and is seeking an exceptional product manager to join the team. As a Product Manager for the SASE solution, including Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN, you will be responsible for shaping the strategy, feature functionality, and roadmap for core Prisma Access. This includes cloud infrastructure, service on and off ramps, and the overall security/network architecture. You will be expected to deliver product functionality that aligns with Palo Alto Networks’ renowned level of innovation. Your role will encompass all stages of the feature lifecycle—conception, definition, development, release, and post-release activities—managing both strategic planning and tactical execution.

Other responsibilities include collaborating with Product Marketing to create product related sales and marketing materials; evangelizing the products and product strategy both internally and externally.

Your Impact

• Develop and Launch: Spearhead the creation and deployment of a new public cloud security platform by enhancing and expanding Prisma Access.

• Lifecycle Ownership: Manage the entire feature/product lifecycle from conception and definition through development and release.

• Collaborate with Marketing: Partner with the product marketing team to create compelling sales tools and marketing content that support sales and field marketing efforts.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with NPI, certification, professional services, support, and education teams to ensure comprehensive coverage of your products by these cross-functional groups.

• Ensure Compliance: Work with legal, InfoSec, engineering, technical marketing, and other internal teams to ensure adherence to various privacy and data protection regulations.

Your Experience

• Educational Background: BS/MS in Computer Science, another engineering/technical degree, or business; MBA preferred.

• Industry Experience: 4+ years in product management or minimum 8 years of technical expertise in the enterprise networking and Cloud networking space.

• Proven Experience: Demonstrated success in Product Management or as a Technical Marketing Engineer within the networking and/or security domain.

• Analytical Skills: Expertise in market and customer analysis, requirements development, business case creation, collateral development, product strategy, and positioning.

• Lifecycle Management: Ability to fully own the product lifecycle from conception, writing product requirements, collaborating with engineering to build the product, and working with sales to drive customer adoption.

• Decision Making: Skilled in feature prioritization and making trade-off decisions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effective in working with all areas of the organization, from engineering to sales.

• Customer Engagement: Experience in customer engagement and relationship development for executive briefings, product evangelism, and requirements gathering.

• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both internal and external audiences.

• Passion for Innovation: Strong desire to build world-class technology and take ownership of the full product lifecycle.

• Required Technical Skills: Deep understanding of Layer-2, Layer-3 and Layer-4 networking protocols, VPN and tunneling technologies and Cloud compute and network solutions. Additionally, candidates must demonstrate practical experience and strategic insight in emerging AI domains, specifically:

• • Generative AI (GenAI) technologies and frameworks

  • Agentic AI systems, including autonomous agents and orchestration models

• Problem-Solving: Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Presentation and Interpersonal Skills: Excellent presentation and people skills and a team-oriented mentality

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 $148700/YR - $240500/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

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch product managers to expand the team. As a certifications manager of global certifications at Palo Alto Networks, you will play an instrumental role in attaining many certifications across our product line. Certifications are of high value as they enable our products to be sold into many key markets around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all activities related to the product certifications, as well as individually contributing much of the content required to obtain these certifications.

Your Impact

• Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Engineering and other stakeholders to develop certification strategies and execute in a timely manner, ensuring alignment of certification strategies and execution plans to business and product imperatives

• Own and drive all aspects of certification projects from start to finish with an eye for detail and accuracy.

• Understand complex technical security architectures (including cloud architecture) and apply that to certification and compliance projects as needed.

• Effectively communicate with all invested areas of the organization and management stakeholders, from engineering to sales

• Develop a solid technical understanding of the product line to speak fluently with consultants, certification agencies, and more to achieve certifications with a few additional resources as possible

• Perform basic product testing and certifications documentation development to ensure success during the certification process

Your Experience

• At least 5-8 years of total experience in Compliance or Governance and Risk Management

• At least 5 years for technology focused risk assessments and remediation management

• At least 5 years experience managing third party audits such as SOC2, ISO 27001 ( and/or other ISO extensions), and PCI-DSS

• Skilled in cross-functional team project and program management.

• CISA certification required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Working experience in one or more of these certifications including ISO 27001 (and/or other ISO extensions), SOC2, PCI or other country-specific certifications for European and APAC countries

• Hands-on in-style and approach to working with very strong interest and demonstrable aptitude in technology products

• A real passion to learn new certification schemes and processes

• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of internal partners and customers

• Understand the challenges of working in distributed environment with multiple teams working on different problems

• Curious, positive, “can-do” and transparent attitude is very critical for success

• Unafraid to take charge, ask hard questions, manage distractions confidently yet respectfully and drive to goals

• Strong ability to work with minimum supervision

• Assertive yet open, thoughtful, respectful, and easy to work with; must embody Palo Alto Networks values

• BS degree ( or equivalent technical degree) required; MS preferred

• PCI ISA/PCIP, CRISC, CISSP or other similar security certifications desired

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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 $150K - $190KYR. 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

• Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support

• Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure

• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers

• Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions

• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations

• Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact

Your Experience

• 7+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development

• Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python

• Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc.

• Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring.

• In depth understanding of DNS protocols, extensions, DNS resolution infrastructure and ecosystem.

• Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, etc

• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

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

This is a role for a leader who brings clarity to complexity, elevates teams, and navigates change with confidence. You’ll set the tone for delivery excellence across the region while contributing directly to global strategy.

Leadership & Customer Strategy

• Lead all Technical Services delivery across NAM, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution
• Align with GCS, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Partner teams to drive customer and business outcomes
• Support Area Leaders in CIO/CISO-level engagements, value reviews, and high-visibility escalations
• Represent NAM in global forums, advocating for customer insights and regional needs

People & Team Development

• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing technical organization
• Create a culture grounded in accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence
• Coach teams through complex customer situations, rapid change, and new delivery models
• Foster a culture of people performance management and accountability

Operational & Business Outcomes

• Maintain strong utilization, backlog health, and delivery predictability
• Optimize resource mix across FTEs and contractors to maximize agility and cost efficiency
• Reduce Time to Value and Time to Deploy by strengthening deployment and adoption practices
• Contribute to service sales growth through scalable, outcome-driven offerings
• Sustain strong relationships with subcontractors and partners to support delivery at scale
• Meet global margin targets through efficient, high-quality execution

Innovation & Delivery Excellence

• Advance automation and AI across Cloud & Cortex professional services and customer success engineering to improve scale and consistency
• Standardize delivery practices, proactively identify risks, and drive data-backed decisions across areas to improve service health
• Ensure effective execution of global and theatre-level programs, adapting them for NAM where needed

Your Experience

• 10+ years in technical services, professional services, customer success, support, or similar roles in a high-growth SaaS/cloud environment
• 5+ years leading regional or multi-regional teams with direct and matrixed reporting lines
• Strong track record of delivering against KPIs including deployment speed, adoption, margin, utilization, and CSAT
• Deep familiarity with Cloud, Endpoint, SOAR, SIEM, and SOC environments; experience with industry leading security platforms strongly preferred
• Experience supporting cyber security programs for large US Federal Government customers
• Experience with supporting operational security requirements or enterprise governance, risk, and compliance initiatives
• Experience engaging with and presenting to executive stakeholders across Product Management, Services Product Management, Sales, and PS/CS organizations
• Experience leading large scale teams exceeding 100+ FTEs and Contractor staff
• Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical teams
• Skilled at building trust, developing talent, and guiding teams through ambiguity
• Balanced, thoughtful decision-maker in escalation and complex customer situations
• Highly collaborative, with a track record of driving alignment and continuous improvement
• Industry recognized security credentials, e.g. CISSP, CRISC
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s/MBA preferred; equivalent military experience considered
• Willingness to travel 20–30% within NAM and occasionally globally

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $270,000-315,000/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.