Senior Manager, Product Communications

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 Senior Manager to support the Network Security organization as the principal communications advisor to the leader and their leadership team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for executive communications for the SVP of Products, Network Security and internal communications for a large R&D organization, including creating internal and external communications strategies and narratives for a variety of mediums, to support an organization that is constantly innovating. 

You are passionate about technology and innovation and the people behind them. You enjoy turning complex and technical products & features into compelling (and understandable!) stories, and you’re able to pivot quickly from audience to audience. As part of the Global Communications team, you’ll be a key point of contact across organizations, ensuring the right narratives are told across multiple channels. 

Your Impact

• Serve as the principal communications advisor to the Network Security leader and their leadership team
• Establish and execute executive and internal communications plans and narratives that engage multiple audiences (employees, customers and beyond), and connect them to the company strategy and product vision
• Ensure organizational initiatives and projects are successfully communicated to  employees and stakeholders
• Plan, edit, and develop content for a variety of channels and audiences - from large internal events, the Intranet and Slack to externally-facing blogs, customer presentations, and keynotes
• Manage executive’s external presence, in conjunction with the PR team, including social media strategy and media and analyst engagements
• Ensure messages are consistent across all media and departments of the organization
• Establish ongoing metrics - measure everything to ensure success, and pivot early and often 

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 8+ years communications experience, in cybersecurity preferred - internal and executive communications background is essential
• Highly organized and self-motivated individual who will oversee timely, first-rate execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey business strategies and complex technologies to audiences in compelling ways
• Strong team player and creative thinker 
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior leaders
• Ability to work under pressure to adhere to tight, last-minute deadlines
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity

Additional Information

The Team

Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our cybersecurity industry, helping our internal teams, customers, and partners address the ever-changing threats we all face daily. Making, doing, building, and rebuilding, leading initiatives that have never been done before. We solve real problems with new ideas, striving tirelessly for simplicity.

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.

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