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
We’re looking for a Sr. Product Manager for Prisma Cloud, the industry leader in Cloud Security and one of the fastest-growing SaaS security companies ever! Prisma Cloud helps customers secure their journey to the cloud by providing the most comprehensive and best-in-class security across Application Lifecycle.
The product manager takes ownership and is passionate about our mission – to build the best cloud security platform in the industry and continue pushing the boundary to take it to new heights! This role comes with the responsibility of deeply understanding our customer’s public cloud security challenges and solving them in impactful ways for the long term.
Are you excited by the challenges of a fast-paced environment and dynamic work? As a product manager on Prisma Cloud, one of the fastest-growing teams in Palo Alto Networks, you will focus on enhancing our technology and reach to help our customers achieve their productivity goals and objectives securely. In this highly visible and cross-functional role, you will lead the charter to build and scale our cloud security platform capabilities. You will know the ins and outs of platform metrics and help drive insights. We have an extremely results-oriented culture in Prisma Cloud, you’ll have the resources and the support across the organization to execute, but ultimately, you are responsible for achieving the business outcomes.
Your Impact
- You must possess a genuine interest in delivering product capabilities that enable our customers to achieve their organizational security objectives
- You must have a deep-seated passion for the cloud computing market, for building platforms, and can serve as a strong advocate for our customers
- You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across organizations and up to senior leadership
- You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios
- You have a strong bias to ownership and action – You should have experience building not just market-leading products but also influencing sales, marketing, and CS to drive customer growth and retention
- You identify opportunities to improve the customer acquisition strategies to increase user engagement with the product, such as making the user onboarding process seamless to help customers engage with the product easily and quickly
- You have previously developed a strong foundation from customer insights, technical know-how, and a constant stream of customer feedback, and you will create a visionary roadmap of capabilities for the short-term, long-term, and beyond
- You have a high level of maturity and use a data-driven approach to influencing your leadership team and cross-functional counterparts
- You possess a unique blend of business and technically savvy – a big-picture vision as well as the drive and attention to detail that transforms vision into a reality
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business or equivalent military experience required
- Minimum 3 years of product management experience
- Highly technical with “cloud first” experience – Knowledge of Linux, and at least a foundational knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform is required
- Experience in cybersecurity is required – Understanding of DevOps process and tools, security practices in application development is preferred
- Have experience delivering technology products/services in a high-growth environment where priorities shift fast
- Have the ability to communicate complex technical issues simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
- Be a strong product manager who can prioritize well and who understands how to drive focus and excellence within a strong, talented, opinionated team
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
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 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 helping to implement 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 $155,000/yr to $250,800/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.