Senior Product Manager (Advanced Threat Prevention)

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

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for world-class product managers to expand the team. As a Senior Product Manager for Advanced Threat Prevention, at Palo Alto Networks, you will be responsible for driving the product strategy, roadmap, and execution with measurable outcomes that push the envelope of innovation. You will be responsible for understanding threat  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 differentiated threat prevention solutions to solve customer problems with speed and agility.

Your Impact

• Conceptualize and define differentiated features for Next-Gen IPS through a deep understanding of evolving Threat Landscape, Customer pain-points and the use of ML/AI network inspection technologies
• Develop customer experience expertise by constantly engaging 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
• Build out business case, PRDs and collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and release features
• Ability to think big picture and sweat on the details
• 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
• Communicate product value to both customers and the business in a compelling manner using slides and documents
• Engage customers and develop relationship via executive briefings, product evangelism, and requirements gathering
• Be 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 a technical product management role preferably with cloud and AI-based security solutions covering threat analysis, incident response, forensics, intrusion prevention, antivirus, or related technologies
• Proven track record in building innovative features from inception to launch
• Experience using ML/AI and Generative-AI to build technical solutions
• Experience with UX / UI and workflow development
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, using data for decision making
• Self-motivated, intellectually curious with excellent people and team collaboration skills
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation 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. 

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