Senior Product Manager (Web Security)

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

The Web and DNS Security product group seeks a Senior Product Manager to own and execute the strategy for the web security market. This individual will be responsible for understanding web security landscape, market trends, and gathering customer requirements at both a market and technical level that would drive the product roadmap.  This role will require collaboration with other product and cross-functional teams that include engineering, product marketing, sales teams to deliver web security solutions to solve customer problems with speed and agility. This individual will also engage with strategic customers to understand their security challenges and the competitive landscape in order to build and execute a product strategy that displaces the competition.

Your Impact

• Deep understanding of web security, threat prevention and other technologies related to the web security market
• Customer experience expertise – constantly engaged with a variety of customer personas, understand deployment trends and operational patterns, understand pain points in existing solutions, and see product features through customer eyes
• Act as a key interface between our field and engineering - Help the field and customers understand our value, competitive differentiation, and best practices for implementing our product
• A passion for building differentiated products with great user experiences
• Identify patterns in customer and market needs, synthesize and genericize feedback and requests, track them systematically, and deliver clear, thoughtful, and well defined product strategy
• Communication of product value to both the customers and the business in a compelling manner using slides and documents
• Being a great team player– an excellent communicator, strong collaborator, someone who solicits feedback from others, is welcoming of better ideas

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, other engineering/technical degree or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of experience in highly technical roles in product management, development, or enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups
• Direct experience in web security, such as URL filtering products, secure web gateways (SWG), or similar technology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent people skills, team mentality
• Demonstrable track record of success

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 solution