Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Your Impact
Recruit and hire new systems engineers into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
Responsible to train, mentor, and review employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
Support field systems engineer team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
Define and create an updated system engineering training curriculum
Develop relationships with channel partners and their technical teams to ensure colleagues are appropriately trained and can support our installations
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
Act as a floating Solutions consultant and fill in for existing team members if there is a resource conflict or vacation coverage challenge
Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post-sales technical 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
Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape that every customer needs to plan for
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
Provide design consultation and standard methodology mentorship for rollout, implementation, and policy conversion during the 'pre-sales' process for strategic opportunities
Ownership of advanced 'proof of concept' testing in strategic accounts either at the customer site or our lab facilities
Provide advanced 'Partner SE' training for updates in our product suite
Maintain a general understanding of competitor selling strategies
50-75% travel within the region
Your Experience
3+ years experience as a pre-sales Systems Engineer Manager
Experience as a client-facing Senior Systems Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Solutions Architect, or Consulting Engineering
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
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Strong conversation and presentation skills with CxO/executives
High-level industry knowledge and business acumen
Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
