דרושים Cortex Cloud Sales Specialist ב-Palo Alto ב-United States, San Francisco

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

• 3+ 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 $212800 - $292600/yrThe 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

● Exciting opportunity to be a leader on the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions.

● Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.

● Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.

● Drive strategic sales initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.

● Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.

● Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales engineers, marketing, and alliances, to support deal execution and customer success.

● Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.

Your Experience

● 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

● Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment with large quota/deals

● Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling and enterprise buying processes with operational discipline

● Experience selling SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOC and SOAR solutions is highly preferred.

● Established relationships with key security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs) and the ability to drive strategic conversations.

● Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization with a focus on continuous expansion and customer success

● “Whatever it takes” attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

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

As a member of our sales leadership team, you will build and drive regional major account sales teams to exceed company objectives while growing your region according to plan. You'll be responsible for building a high–performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team members to accomplish individual and organizational goals. It will be required that you track sales activity, provide sales projects, and create and analyze metrics.

Your Impact

• Responsible for building and developing a team of quota carrying and lead generation sales professionals
• Own and drive revenue outcomes within the assigned region, territories, and/or district, exceeding personal and team sales quotas and goals
• Review weekly forecast and business outcomes with representatives and sales leaders
• Coach, develop, and mentor representatives to success in all aspects of the sales cycle – lead generation, qualification, forecasting, and closing opportunities, while using our channel/partner network
• Build sales analysis for insight into weekly, monthly and quarterly execution and strategies
• Attend weekly regional forecast and management calls to provide Inside Sales perspective
• Work closely with other District Sales Managers on crafting business strategy to accomplish company goals
• Required to stay knowledgeable and up–to–date on product roadmap, industry changes, and competitive landscapes

Your Experience

• Sales experience and management experience – preferably experience handling both quotas carrying and lead generation inside sales teams
• Enterprise sales experience required – networking or network security industries strongly preferred
• Experience with channel and partner sales models
• Consistently achieved sales goals through your leadership and personal goals
• Able to learn new technology quickly, as well as adapt to changing needs
• Hired, developed and retained successful sales talent
• Deep understanding of enterprise sales methodology that you can translate and coach others in
• Built strong cross–functional relationships across clients, partners, and internal teams
• Previous practice in Salesforce.com
• 25% quarterly travel within region

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $322000 - $443500/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 AIRS 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 Appsec or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred.
• Experience selling GenAI products 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 $256000/YR - $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 Career

As part of the PANW Global Center of Partner Offer Excellence, the Partner Solutions Architect (PSA) supports internal and partner stakeholders with a mix of technical architecture, offer design activities, internal solution innovations, and ongoing knowledge management.

Specifically, the Cortex Cloud PSA is an expert with a strong understanding of cloud security; Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and Runtime Security with foundational knowledge of Security Operations, including SIEM, SOAR and XDR/EDR. The Cloud PSA leverages the Cortex Cloud platforms to design, build, and implement comprehensive cloud security services within the Partner ecosystem. The Cloud PSA drives the development of new partner services and optimizes cloud security solutions by leading the initial execution of projects.

The position requires strong leadership and communication skills; the Partner Solutions Architect will have to rally partners to agree on tools and techniques based on desired offerings and develop complementary assets. Additionally, will have to articulate a clear vision to partners, customers, consultants, account managers, and other internal and external stakeholders relevant to technical offerings.

Your Impact

• Develop pre-defined, partner-led offerings based on PANW next-gen security platforms, including but not limited to service descriptions, end-customer use cases, technology capabilities mapping, support models, delivery flows, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.

• Recommend advisory, implementation, and/or managed offers and best practices curated to the requirements provided by and/or interpreted from the partner, as well as based on subject matter expertise.

• Assist Business Development with vetting of partner technical capabilities, both prior to offer development and ahead of offer launch.

• Provide technical enablement and support for relevant partner personnel (ex., pre-sales support, delivery, operations, professional services, and/or consulting personas) as a trusted advisor through partner-specific webinars, workshops, and ongoing discussions, as well as product-specific on-demand and instructor-led training.

• Create and influence technical documentation, including but not limited to offer development processes, technical offer collateral, internal systems flows, reference architectures, and learnings for future enhancements.

• Facilitate and manage environments for labs, demos, partner training, and technology showcases, in support of partner offerings.

• Maintain, Optimize, and Refine our partner offerings through their lifecycle with new capabilities while ensuring efficient and consistent consumption by partners and end-customers

• Champion internal enhancements that benefit partner offers based on key learnings and partner feedback in collaboration with Business Development to ensure broader business goal alignment, including product innovations, new reference architecture models, process/systems optimization, and technical program benefits.

• Collaborate with internal technical partners and support them as a subject matter expert on technical partner offers; including but not limited to Domain Consultants, Developer Relations, Product Management & Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and other internal SMEs

• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with partner requirements and differentiation.

• Architect solutions that will help our partners strengthen and simplify their security posture.

• Help our customers build and develop further their services around Cortex Cloud.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience working with systems integrators and/or enterprise customers in a technical capacity.

• Experience selling, demonstrating, installing and/or troubleshooting cloud security products. Working with both hardware and cloud-based security platforms will be beneficial.

• Experience with Cloud Security technologies, including Runtime Security and CNAPP (DevSecOps, IaC, CloudOps), as well as related components. Experience with log management and SIEM is a plus.

• Proven experience developing, managing, and/or supporting technical offers with SP, MSSP, and/or GSI partners.

• Technical documentation experience preferred

• Experience and understanding of cybersecurity and the latest market trends are encouraged, as is directional familiarity with and/or certification in Palo Alto Networks technologies.

• Experience & good understanding of API’s, orchestration tools, scripting, etc. will be an added advantage.

• Good understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems. Proficiency with G-Suite preferred.

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher and/or relevant industry certifications (e.g., CCSP, CCSK) preferred.

• Highly driven and collaborative individual with a self-motivated, solution-based mindset and a strong sense of urgency around execution while building trusted relationships.

• Strong internal and external interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, as well as adaptability in fast-paced and dynamic situations, while influencing decision-making.

• Passion for continuous education as well as collaborative knowledge sharing with partners and peers.

• Travel of at least 25% within the designated region and subject to travel policy.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the context of enterprise security, including but not limited to:

  • Threat detection and prediction

  • Automated security response

  • Security analytics and reporting

  • AI-driven security tools and platforms

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 $186000 - $255000/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

• Developing complex cloud security solutions, with a strong focus on the frontend: reviewing requirements, providing technical design, leading the execution and deploying to production
• Build and master cloud security UIs that redefine the way users interact with security platforms
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable frontend code that performs well for thousands of customers
• Develop using modern TypeScript frameworks and tools, including Angular 18 and Tailwind CSS, to build scalable web applications.
• Design your features in an advanced architecture model built to meet the scalability requirements by our large customers

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineer specializing in Angular, with hands-on experience in Angular 17 or later (preferably Angular 18).
• Computer science or an equivalent degree or equivalent military experience required
• Team player, collaborative and with high communication skills
• Understanding and experience in Agile environment
• Flexible and passionate to learn new domains
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and frontend performance optimization

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 will center your role on relationship management to achieve measurable results in increased revenue, market share, and depth within each SLED partner sales team. Your success in this role will span the creation and execution of unique business plans with each SLED partner. The SLED segment is a channel reliant sales motion and will require focus on specific channel plays. You’ll be measured primarily on the joint business executed with each partner within your SLED territories. You’ll be working within all levels of partner organizations and possess a commitment that focuses on developing partnerships based on the long term, “outcome where everybody wins” strategy.

Your Impact

• Develop and execute channel strategy to support territory GEO supporting the SLED sales segment.

• Management of a strategic group of partners and sales districts.

• Territory plans driving all aspects of key sales initiatives to support business goals.

• Partner relationship to maximize growth opportunities and ensuring the partner is well-positioned to deliver successful customer implementations and recommendations.

• Work well in a team environment to ensure partner and customer satisfaction.

• Design a compelling value proposition that inspires partners to promote our solutions within the SLED space.

• Provide clear and consistent communication across the region with your dedicated partners to build strong partnerships throughout your assignment.

• Lead regular business performance and relationship reviews with senior management and various stakeholders.

• Build and maintain the activity of performance reports and activity dashboards.

• Locations covered: PA, DC, VA, MD, AL, MS, GA, TN, NC, SC, FL.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in channel management supporting the State, Local, & Education (SLED) segment
• Understanding of channel operating models and unique sales motions within the SLED space
• Knowledge of sales, marketing, and solution development
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ability to think creatively with excellent presentation, written, and overall communication skills
• Consistent track record of leading complex sales situations through negotiation.
• Traveling to the listed locations will be required.

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 $225000 - $309000/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.

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.