Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.
Our Approach to Work
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!
Job Description
Your Career
This individual will have strong customer-centric product management experience, as well as innovative thinking, and will take the initiative to improve both our products and our processes.
As a Senior Product Manager in the areas of SaaS Security, you’ll be responsible for owning and managing key innovative product areas and contributing to our fast-growing SaaS and Data Security platforms.
Your Impact
- Ownership – Be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for securing SaaS applications
- Product requirements and delivery – PRD and requirements for your projects
- Work with product managers and engineering on a day-to-day basis to prioritize and execute on product features and delivery
- Product strategy – contribute to the product roadmap – Identify and gather requirements, define and spec features, and work cross-functionally to bring them to market
- Customer development – Interact with customers to deeply understand their problems and requirements
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 5+ years product management experience
- 3+ years in the cloud network security or related markets
- Cloud security and security platform innovation background
- Direct experience with CASB, DLP, UEBA, Threat Prevention, Compliance and securing SaaS apps is required
- Expertise in areas such as Firewall, Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Security (ZTNA) etc.
- A self motivated and entrepreneurial mindset
- Strong (written and verbal) communication and presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience leading and contributing to cross-functional teams
- Experience working in fast-paced environments with overlapping projects/deliverables
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills required
Education
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or MBA strongly preferred or equivalent military experience required
Additional Information
The Team
To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Product Management Team helps us do just that.
Our organization and employees are committed to changing as rapidly as our industry’s threats do, and to do that, we need creative product teams to address emerging cyber threats. They provide the behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information on our products for our systems engineers, staying on top of the environment we sell in, and help in implementing product wide technical solutions based on our client’s feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
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 $142,000/yr to $229,700/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.