Senior Manager of Product Management (Threat Prevention)

Senior Manager of Product Management (Threat Prevention)

Palo Alto Networks

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.

Job Description

As a Product Manager focused on NGFW operations and device lifecycle management, your primary responsibility is to conceptualize, gather feedback from customers and partners, and guide building features that simplify the device lifecycle management of our products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, user experience, marketing, sales, and customer support to drive the product roadmap and ensure the successful delivery of solutions that solve customer problems and meet market demands.

Your Impact

1. Understand customer problems and use cases intimately.
2. Collaborate with UX, engineering and other product team members to deliver high-quality products that solve customer problems with a differentiated, automated and optimized approach.
3. Own the vision, roadmap and requirements for your features.
4. Engage with the product marketing team and help them develop compelling messaging, impactful sales tools and marketing content to support sales and field marketing teams.
5. Interact with customers, partners and sales engineering teams in different forums to gather feedback and evangelize the product.
6. Collaborate with technical marketing, sales engineering and technical support teams to train the field teams, gather feedback during betas and help with escalations.

Qualifications

Your Experience

1. BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required.
2. Strong desire to take ownership of the full product lifecycle.
3. 7+ years in product management.
4. Must have product management experience in one or more areas - Networking, Network Management, Network Security, Next Generation Firewalls.
5. Ideally has hands-on experience in managing devices from onboarding to decommissioning and ongoing device operations.
6. Strong and proven (written and verbal) communication and presentation skills.
7. Strong interpersonal skills in leading and contributing to cross-functional teams.
8. Experience in fast-paced environments with overlapping projects/deliverables.
9. Proven analytical and problem-solving skills required.
10. Experience in making product decisions based on imperfect market data.
11. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal 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.

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.

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.