Palo Alto Senior Certification Manager 

United States, California 

466074490

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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 .

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