Senior Manager of Product Management (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.

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

Threat actors continue to find ways to breach and disrupt organizations making security a key boardroom conversation.  Palo Alto Networks has built a brand and reputation as an industry-leading security vendor making it one of the best companies to supercharge your career.

As a Senior Manager of Product Management for Advanced Threat Prevention at Palo Alto Networks, you will be part of a team responsible for the core security subscription that is key to preventing sophisticated emerging attacks by reimagining the IPS.

You will bring to Palo Alto Networks strong communication and leadership skills combined with a strong technical background in security. However, most importantly, you will possess a real passion and focus on protecting our customers from threats. You will team up with some of the best security minds in the industry and a large install base of customers. You will have access to some of the richest security data in the industry that will help you turn it into insights that deliver tangible security outcomes for our customers.

Your Impact

• Be part of a senior team of Product Managers responsible for one of the largest security products within the portfolio and continue to drive an innovative and differentiated roadmap that disrupts the market while helping Advanced Threat Prevention reach its full potential

• Collaborate with engineering and product management leaders across the organization to help Palo Alto Networks deliver the best in class security solutions

• Be intimately involved with the business to identify growth opportunities and leverage your business and technical skills to enter new markets

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS or MS in a technical field (e.g. EE. CS), MBA highly desirable or equivalent military experience required

• 5+ years of experience in a technical product management role preferably with cloud-based security solutions covering intrusion prevention, threat analysis, incident response, forensics, or related technologies

• Track record of successfully launching net new products or offerings at scale within mature technology areas

• Strong analytical skills to make data-driven decisions

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills to drive alignment at all levels of the organization and across cross functional teams

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 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 helping to implement 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 characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $178,400/yr to $288,650/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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 characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes