Senior Product Manager (Data 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

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Data Security team. The ideal candidate would be able to drive strategy, partner with engineering to deliver new Data Discovery and Security services, collaborate with marketing and sales to execute go-to-market strategies and act as a thought leader in Data Security at the industry level. As a Product Line Manager for Data Security, you’ll shape the next-generation solutions to enable organizations to protect their most sensitive information. 

Your Impact

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy and roadmap for our Data Security product line 
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis and customer feedback to inform product decisions
• Collaborate with design and engineering teas to develop product prototypes and interfaces
• Work closely with data scientists and ML engineers to develop and integrate ML algorithms into the Data Security product lines
• Create and maintain product documentation, including user guides, training materials and release notes
• Monitor product performance and customer feedback to inform product improvements and updates
• Work across functional agile teams (Engineering, UX, customer support, operations, finance, sales and marketing)
• Identify technology partners and drive integration into market leading product 
• Drive joint sales (SKUs, solution bundles, incentives) and marketing (collaterals, webinars, trade shows) models with cross-functional teams within and partners

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent military experience required
• MBA is desirable
• 5 years in product management
• Strong technical background in ML with experience working with data scientists and ML engineers
• Strong understanding of user experience design principles and methodologies
• Excellent communications and collaboration skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data to inform product decisions
• Experience working in an Agile development environment 
• Experience launching cloud products and services

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 st