Product Marketing 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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

As a Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in planning and executing the product marketing strategy for our next innovations in Data Security, focused on protecting data in the age of AI. You will work closely with marketing, product management, industry analysts, sales, customers and technology partners, to deeply understand our target audience, their key security issues and the competitive landscape. This knowledge will empower you to define our unique value proposition then drive messaging, content creation, thought leadership, sales enablement and competitive analysis for the product line that you are responsible for. 

Working closely with key stakeholders to develop and execute your strategy, your success will drive innovation and establish Palo Alto Networks as the clear leader in data security.

Your Impact

• Establish the unique value proposition and messaging for your product line, with a clear understanding of the target markets and buyer personas

• Author compelling, high-quality content, both at a business and a technical level, in a variety of formats including print, web, social media, and video

• Launch products and collaborate with field teams to execute marketing campaigns to deliver on awareness and pipeline targets

• Enable the sales and channel teams to understand, present and become subject matter experts in our data security services.

• Effectively work at building and executing plans that cross different functional groups, including product management, go to market, sales, and analyst relations

• Represent the company in customer engagements and at events, to evangelize our point of view and be recognized as an expert in your industry

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of technology product marketing, product management, or technical marketing experience

• Experience in cybersecurity or with network security technologies (eg. Firewall, NGFW, IPS)

• 2+ years in data security or ML/AI 

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders

• Creative thinker able to develop and deliver engaging presentations in a range of environments, from large internal teams, to industry conferences and customer briefings

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, MBA preferred

Additional Information

The Team

Our Marketing team has an opportunity like no other industry: high impact work and the chance to change the future of digital security, globally. Your hands will be in industry-leading content created in the face of rapidly growing threats: cyberattacks. Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our industry, and helping our internal teams, customers, and partners address the ever-changing threats we all face on a day-to-day basis.

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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