Senior Product Manager (SASE)

Company Description

Your Career:

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch product managers to expand the team. As a SASE product manager at Palo Alto Networks, you will be responsible for driving the product strategy and operations, feature functionality and roadmap. In addition to your own creativity, you will also rely on interaction with customers and partners to understand requirements and problems. You will be expected to deliver product functionality that matches Palo Alto Networks’ level of innovation. You will be involved in all stages of the feature lifecycle (conception, definition, development, release and post-release activities) managing strategic planning, feature selection and tactical activities. 

Other responsibilities include collaborating with Product Marketing, engineering and Customer Success  to create product related technical, sales and marketing materials; evangelizing the products and product strategy both internally and externally to drive growth and market share.

Job Description

Your Impact:

• Ownership of the product strategy, planning, and operations
• Feature prioritization and trade-off decision making
• Ability to work effectively with all areas of the organization, from engineering to sales
• Customer engagement and relationship development for executive briefings, product evangelism, and requirements gathering
• Engage with internal and external customers to continually improve the user experience
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.
• Incorporate data, research, and market analysis to inform product strategies and roadmaps.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Other engineering/technical degree, MBA preferred
• Minimum 7  years in product management, engineering leadership, technical sales/marketing experience  (software preferred)
• Technical expertise in the enterprise LAN and WAN networking space required, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Service Provider experience is a plus
• UX / UI and workflow development desired
• Excellent people skills, team mentality, Relentless pursuit of excellence
• Ability to understand what’s important, urgent and how to tackle multiple priorities at the same time
• Strong problem solving ability, negotiation skills, and ability to seek compromise
• Ability to work in sprints to accomplish time-sensitive goals
• Strong desire to take ownership of the full product life cycle
• Drive to design something new, innovative, and disruptive - ability to take calculated risks
• Hands-on nature with very strong interest in new technology products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills including executiv

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 characteris