דרושים Director Solutions Consulting - Dow/intelligence Community ב-Palo Alto ב-United States, Washington

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

• 3+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering or graduate of Palo Alto Networks Academy Program

• Skilled in at least one of the following Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.

• 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

• Understanding of 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 $173000 - $237500/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

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.
• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative
• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers
• 50-75% travel within the region
• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Your Experience

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager
• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products
• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base
• 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
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
• 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 $224000/YR - $308000/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

• Partner with the Regional Vice President of Sales to drive enterprise-wide sales-related initiatives within our Accounts
• Oversee technical pre-sales operations and achieve revenue generation, individual, team, and organizational quotas
• Interact at a senior level with customers and partners and provide valuable insight into industry trends, customer challenges, technical evolutions, and business changes that will help the customer make their security decisions
• Understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial challenges faced by our prospects and customers that the Palo Alto Networks solution addresses
• Ensure effective account planning is being executed across the teams to deliver compelling business-focused solutions that address customers' security needs
• Develop and own outcome-oriented initiatives that drive pipeline and sales with your AVP, RVPs, Solution Consulting Managers (SCMs) and SCs to drive greater efficiencies and success within the Area
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Palo Alto Networks’ partners (reseller, distribution, system integrators, and alliances) and drive and measure initiatives to improve sales productivity through partner leverage
• Lead portfolio expansion initiatives, with factual results upselling subscriptions and strategic solutions
• Ensure the teams develop deep ongoing relationships across their accounts to drive adoption and growth across the portfolio after the initial sale
• Metric-based results should be evident across all areas of focus
• Report and make visible the successes and deficiencies of the initiatives within your area
• Pristine personnel management – including demonstrated development plans and execution, reduced attrition results and initiatives, a clear history of promotions and success, etc.
• Operate effectively in a matrix manner with extended teams, such as Support, Finance, WW SE, HR, Product Management, and other relevant organizations
• Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post-sales technical issues that arise in the territory
• Develop, mentor, manage, and support reporting sales engineers with technical and organizational leadership
• Manage successful evaluations and timely return of evaluation equipment

Your Experience

• A minimum combination of 8 years of first and/or second line, Solution Consulting management experience preferred
• Reputation with the customers and partners in the Area as a trusted advisor who will always take care of their needs
• Possess a combination of management, technical and business skills - A challenger sales mentality and a fast-growing mindset are a must
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of Palo Alto Network’s roadmap and technology development efforts
• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to PAN’s customer base, and maintains a general understanding of competitive selling strategies
• Demonstrated experience in working directly with customers at senior levels within an organization, as well as working with industry partners and alliances
• Possess the intellect and the executive presence to become a true business partner across functions50% Travel
• An articulate, social individual that can translate a highly technical solution in simple business terms and develop relationships with decision-makers
• Highly commercial in orientation, with a strong focus on the customer and a clear commitment to generating topline growth
• Leading by example, this individual, when necessary, will not hesitate to get into the details of the business
• Highly autonomous individual that can lead a cross-functional project from the ground up and make things happen
• Decisive leader with a passion for the business and a real sense of urgency
• Strategic thinking - To plan and build and other sales and marketing leaders - There will also be a close collaboration with the product team

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 $312000 - $364500/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

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
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• 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 and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• 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 our leadership
• 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
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• 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
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• 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 $198000 - $273000/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

From product inception to customer delivery, you will be instrumental in the development and testing of new platforms where the latest features and abilities will confound our competitors and delight our customers. As an experienced platform test engineer, you will use your skills and knowledge to develop test methodologies and execute test plans for our firewall hardware and software platforms to ensure high quality products are delivered to our customers.

Using various test equipment and linux-based open-source tools; and requiring knowledge of Platforms and Networking (L2/L3); your insights and experience will enhance our test methodologies to ensure the stability and functionality of various platforms in development. From manual testing to automation with Python, you will discover and implement new techniques to increase the efficiency and efficacy of our testing and delivery process.

Besides the technical aspects of this position, the ability to communicate and work effectively with many different groups, from Product Line Managers, Program Managers, Engineers and others, is essential.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Platform-Software Test Engineer

• Devise methodologies and execute test plans that effectively test all aspects of the platform, from specific hardware/platform components to network layers L1-L7
• Collaborate and communicate with Product Line Managers, Program Managers, Engineering, Operations, Support and other business units to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products
• Influence the development of new products and testing methods by reviewing Product Requirement Documents, Functional Specification documents, and test plans with a discerning eye for technical accuracy and consistency from inception to final delivery
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative and challenging environment with a focus on driving best practices in the Platform Team as well as groups outside the organization
• From flashing EEPROMs to detecting malware on LDAP networks, be the subject matter expert on all aspects of the new platforms from test coverage, process, and progress.
• Automate test cases using Python to enhance the testing coverage, efficacy and efficiency of new platforms
• Constantly striving to improve speed, efficiency and quality, you will set high standards for all products being developed now and in the future
• Mentor and coach junior team members and drive best practices and knowledge across the various teams
• Exemplify our culture of respect, integrity, diversity and collaboration within as well as outside the team

Your Experience

• At least 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software and/or Hardware Test Engineer testing routers, switches or firewalls
• Excellent knowledge of Platform Software and L2/L3 testing methodologies and processes and optics qualification, board validation etc
• Conduct platform-level testing activities, including optics qualification , board validation , and system-level hardware verification to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance with product requirements.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of hands-on experience in Linux-based operating systems and open-source tools like tcpreplay, hping, iperf, etc.
• Excellent project leadership skills with a strong track record of successfully delivering on commitments
• At least 2+ years of experience bringing new platforms to market
• Familiarity with L4/L7 security technologies a plus
• Adept with Spirent, Ixia, BreakingPoint traffic generators
• Proficiency with Python highly desired
• Outstanding critical thinking, organizational, collaboration and communication (written and verbal) skills
• Outstanding troubleshooting skills from understanding protocols, analyzing cli output, debugging logs, capturing packets, etc.
• Dependable self-starter who takes ownership
• Computer/Network lab design and maintenance experience a plus
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent required (M.S. Preferred)

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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

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

Your Career

The Technical Solutions Architect is a global role, with a particular focus on Microsoft and Oracle as CSP (cloud service provider) partners. This position is responsible for providing technical leadership and strategy for the CSP build with and sell through partnership on Microsoft Azure and OCI. You will be the expert on our technology/solutions with these partners. You will help navigate current and future offerings/architectures from Microsoft (not just Azure) and Oracle (not just OCI), and provide prescriptive guidance to Palo Alto Networks’ Product and Field teams on areas of collaboration and potential overlap.

Your Impact

• Understand the CSP’s and PANW’s security offerings at a deeper level, including the CSP’s current and future roadmap of security offerings
• Be a thought leader in identifying future integration opportunities with the CSP’s security offerings
• Present to customers as the expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO/CISO
• Converse at a C-level on industry trends and emerging changes to the cloud cybersecurity landscape that every customer must be aware of and planning to deal with
• Direct discussions of competitive nature in the marketplace and position the best alternative
• Lead demonstrations of product from beginning to end that showcase our unique value
• In-person and remote interactions with customers must be equally persuasive
• Create architectures that will enable PANW field teams, or customers, or the CSP to show the overlap/complementary nature of the PANW and CSP products/solutions.
• Maintain existing and create new integrations (including developing solution briefs) with the CSP that don’t require the product team’s involvement
• Achieve competencies with the CSPs to maintain and elevate our partnership to new levels.
• Provide design consultation and best practice guidance for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the 'pre-sales' process for strategic opportunities
• Engage in any critical biz development projects with CSP by being the technical expert/advisor
• Work with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to create requirements and product features for our customers, and provide feedback from customers
• Participate in customer-facing webinars to generate leads
• Present product update/roadmaps and enhancement training to other SEs and CSP Engineers in the region or theater
• Deliver demos for strategic prospects and current accounts in all facets of Palo Alto Networks offerings and integrations in CSP environments.
• Train fellow teammates/colleagues as well as CSP Engineers and partners.
• Provide advanced “CSP Engineer” training for updates in the Palo Alto Networks and CSP product suite
• Help establish and manage POC environments and lead partner and customer presentations in support of the CSP business

Your Experience

• In-depth technical knowledge of public cloud, CSP offered services both from a technology and a business perspective
• Demonstrated ability to sell, demonstrate, install and troubleshoot products
• Can present and demonstrate at high-level and have a discussion of these environments
• Ability to write code for integrations
• Scripting capabilities in Azure as well as knowledge in Terraform and Python
• Experience in basic L2-L4 Networking (Cloud Networking Architectures, IP routing including BGP, L4 Load balancing)
• Experience with cloud and security in cloud - IaaS, SaaS and PaaS products, preferably with Microsoft Azure and Azure Networking
• BSCS or equivalent and 8+ years of experience as an SE or equivalent military experience required
• Demonstrated ability to work in a virtual and matrix environment
• Proven ability to manage a myriad of different disciplines and tasks in a high pressure, time sensitive environment
• 40%-50% travel with ability to travel internationally
• Strong communication (written and verbal),presentation, and demonstration skills
• “Self-Motivated” and "Whatever it takes" attitude and motivation to do whatever necessary to assist in winning business
• Think on your feet to answer questions and respond with insight and poise that are relevant

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/yr - $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

• 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.