דרושים Solution Consultant ב-Palo Alto ב-Canada, Calgary

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

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures

• 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

• Experience in complex sales involving long 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 $198,000 - $273,000. 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.

As a Solutions Consultant, you’ll enable sales engagements into a set of large new enterprise accounts. You will play a key role in navigating complex accounts in order to generate and deliver winning proposals, contract bids, statements of work, and RFI/RFP responses. It is business critical to meet and exceed sales quotas by building and implementing strategic account plans targeting enterprise-wide deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform.

Your Impact

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers working with your Account Manager and the local partners within your territory
• Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
• Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified cybersecurity problems in each unrivaled environment
• Ensure ongoing customer happiness, support, and adoption
• Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
• Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors
• Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience as a successful pre-sales solutions consultant, systems integrator, or equivalent experience
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto Networks products, with a focus on Next-Generation Firewall and some comparative technologies; Continuous technical development
• Experience with systems installation, configuration and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux, and Windows-based systems
• Experience that emphasizes L2-L4 Networks (L2 switching architectures including Spanning Tree, IP routing that includes OSPF and BGP, and L4 Load balancing)
• Understand and effectively present our security platform to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex multivariate problems and find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution, often under duress
• Mature and effective time-management skills
• Prior experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances, including but not limited to: Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches
• Familiarity working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric market approach
• Previous work in the enterprise networking security space
• Experience and knowledge of modern network threats and malware, network forensics, automation tools and technologies, and endpoint security technologies
• Significant industry certifications (SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.