Senior Product Manager - NPI

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.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class NPI product management team and continues to look for top-notch NPI product managers to expand the team. We are looking for an exceptional leader for introducing new products and services in our Cloud Security Speedboats. In this role, you will partner with various product, engineering and business stakeholders to introduce a portfolio of new products in the cloud-delivered market.

In addition to your thought leadership and creativity, you will partner closely with IT Product Managers, R&D Product Managers, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Revenue, Sales Operations, and Global Customer Support to ensure new offerings are robust and the experience for our customers and partners is seamless.  Having a software engineering background and experience supporting the business functions listed is critical for success in this challenging and rewarding role. The position will report to the Director of NPI. 

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• Define vision and strategy for how modern cloud products should be commercialized, sold, licensed, and supported in the enterprise market
• Align closely with product management from Ideation to General Availability to eliminate delays in GA timeline
• Manage new product offerings effectively, manage feature prioritization and trade-off decision making in collaboration with Product Managers
• Partner with business, product management and engineering to define requirements, develop functional specifications, and estimate delivery timelines
• Work with business stakeholders across the company to understand their business, operational and engineering requirements - Design and deliver innovative solutions to address those needs
• Act as the product owner in an Agile/Scrum process and own writing of user stories, acceptance criteria, and sign off on feature completion
• Effectively partner with business, engineering and IT teams to deliver on an aggressive agenda of programs for improving delivery execution
• Manage business expectations, be proactive in planning for new offerings, and build excellent partnerships with various leaders within the company 

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong 8+ years of experience working as a Product Owner in high tech company
• Strong desire to take ownership of a set of new product offerings and develop capabilities to commercialize them
• A product development background with excellent knowledge of commercial aspects of cloud products
• Drive to design something new, innovative, and disruptive
• Understanding of the commercial and operational needs of Cloud product offerings
• Knowledge of business systems readiness for product launches (SFDC, SAP, Steelbrick quoting and billing)
• Experience working with engineering and cross functional teams in a high technology company
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams as a Product Owner
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering or an equivalent combination of skills, training, and experience or equivalent military experience is required
• Software development background is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Superlative collaboration mindset – this is a highly cross-functi