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Solutions Consultant (presales engineer) - Major Accounts

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Systems Engineering Full-time Ref ID: JR-011010
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Overview

Your next great move.

If you're passionate about staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity and thrive on helping organizations safeguard their most valuable digital assets, a Solutions Consulting role at Palo Alto Networks could be your next great move. We're looking for individuals who are passionate about advanced security solutions and enjoy tailoring them to meet complex challenges. We're always recruiting the best and brightest who thrive on helping customers navigate the ever-changing security landscape and have the ability to make the most complex challenges attainable. You'll partner closely with Account Executives to evangelize the Palo Alto Networks platform and highlight the benefits it can provide our customers, helping them secure their most critical digital assets. At Palo Alto Networks, you'll find strong career growth, collaboration with top talent, and a mission-driven environment focused on securing our digital future.

  • Level: Mid-Senior
  • Travel: Yes (frequent)
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What it takes to be successful.

What makes a successful Solutions Consultant at Palo Alto Networks? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Technical Acumen
  • Focuses on the Customer
  • Drives Results
  • Demonstrates Resilience
  • Builds Trust
  • Adapts

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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.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey.  You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks.  You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

  • Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customersMeeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
  • Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
  • Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
  • Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
  • Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
  • Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
  • Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership 
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
  • Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
  • (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience 

  • Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
  • Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
  • Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements 
  • Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
  • Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • Business fluent in German. high level of English

We are a team of nine Solutions Consultants, soon to be ten with this additional role. Collaboration and mutual support are at the core of how we work – we share expertise, step in for each other, and celebrate collective success.
Our focus is on Germany’s major accounts, primarily long-standing enterprise customers across diverse industries. We act as trusted advisors in presales, shaping long-term customer relationships, and continue to support successful project delivery together with our Professional Services and Customer Success teams.
In your day-to-day, you will form a close micro-team with an Account Executive, jointly driving a defined customer set. Beyond that, you will collaborate closely with the wider sales organization, specialists, product experts, and product management – giving you the opportunity to learn from diverse perspectives and make a tangible impact across the business.

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.

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It's our mission.

We are the global cybersecurity leader, united in our mission to protect our digital way of life.

  • Determined to make a difference.
  • Shaping the future of cybersecurity.
  • Your unique perspective is valued.

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Hear from our people.

“I'm passionate about solving customer challenges in the most complete way possible. The advantage of working at Palo Alto Networks is the breadth and depth of technology capabilities, product innovation and all the brilliant people that make things happen for our customers.

Day-to-day I work with customers to transform their Security Operations, having our broad portfolio at my disposal enables me to do the best work possible for our customers.

Working with great people allows me to grow and succeed. My success is the sum of my efforts and the efforts of my colleagues, including everyone from Product Management, Research, my teammates, and many others.”

- Nana-Ampofo, Senior Consulting Engineer

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