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Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Sales Specialist SLED Mountain West 
United States, Washington, Seattle 
808997232

12.08.2024
Description

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

Your Impact

  • Win new logos, renew existing customer and expand business within your territory
  • Achieve ACV sales quotas on a monthly and quarterly basis
  • Present regular/accurate forecasting for review
  • Track and report on all opportunities, pipeline, and bookings to provide forecast reports to region management
  • Engage with the local Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, and Google) sales programs and joint activities
  • Develop, share and implement standard methodologies and account strategies to increase our sales penetration of Cloud Security into our top accounts
  • Engage with customers to identify and progress opportunities whilst delivering subject matter expertise on Cloud & Cloud Native Security solutions
  • Qualify and progress leads and opportunities through the sales cycle to closure
  • Establish and maintain effective relationships with channel partners
  • Keep up-to-date knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps & Cloud Native technologies as well as the competitive position of the company
  • Conduct consistent training and communications for the sales and channel teams as well as joint engagement within the wider organization
  • Contribute to the larger Palo Alto Network’s Cloud & Cloud Native strategy by providing regional specific intelligence and reporting
  • Apply subject matter expertise in training, QBRs, enablement, and other engagement activities
  • Gather “Voice of Customer” and competitive intelligence and share with theatre and global Cloud organization
  • Help build and project Palo Alto Networks position as the number one enterprise cloud security company

Your Experience

  • 5+ years' experience exceeding sales quota as a SLED Account Manager or similar role, for a multinational company
  • Sales excellence - ability to demonstrate planning, strategy, qualification and execution
  • Deep understanding of Public Cloud and the uniqueness of public cloud architectures
  • Prior experience selling SAAS or Cloud solutions
  • Existing relationships within one or all Public Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google) is preferred
  • Understanding of DevOps, containers/kubernetes, CI/CD and the cloud native technology ecosystem
  • Excellent communication skills including strong verbal and written skills and proven presentation skills being able to articulate complex topics
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and consultative sales techniques

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

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 $251,900/yr to $346,400/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .