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Revolutionizing protection.

Define what’s next in cybersecurity.

Lead, Sales Capability & AI Enablement

Santa Clara, California, United States Sales Ref ID: JR-015473
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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

Job Summary

This role enables the evolution of our global sales capability initiative, driving deeper skill adoption, aligning learning to active pipeline, and improving measurable sales performance. You will refine and apply curriculum to reflect real-world field challenges and evolving GTM priorities, ensuring all learning translates into deal progression and in-deal execution. This is not a traditional training role — it is focused on driving behavior change in live opportunities. Success requires significant field experience to establish credibility with senior sellers and leaders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Evolve and align sales capability programs to reflect current GTM priorities, pipeline realities, and segment-specific complexity (Enterprise, Commercial, Specialists, regional variations)

  • Act as an experienced sales coach and mentor on sales process, methodology, and applied in-deal execution

  • Design and build programs tied directly to active opportunities, territory planning, and forecast discipline, incorporating real deal scenarios and competitive context

  • Lead immersive, high-impact workshops (virtual and in-person) focused on value selling, executive engagement, discovery, negotiation, and MEDDPICC

  • Partner with frontline leaders to embed behaviors into deal reviews, pipeline inspections, territory planning, and forecast calls

  • Track and measure outcomes by linking adoption and behavioral change to opportunity quality, forecast accuracy, and seller confidence

  • Leverage AI-enabled tools to increase practice frequency, coaching consistency, and reinforcement at scale

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Former enterprise, quota-carrying seller with a track record of closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals

  • Experience in frontline sales leadership with accountability for revenue, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy

  • Demonstrated success coaching sellers through live, high-stakes opportunities

  • 8+ years designing and delivering enterprise-level, skills-based sales capability programs

  • Proven ability to translate real selling and leadership experience into applied, segment-specific learning

  • Deep working knowledge of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Value Selling, Challenger, or Command of the Message

  • Candidates without prior experience as both a quota-carrying seller and a frontline sales leader will not be a fit for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of complex B2B sales cycles in SaaS or cybersecurity environments

  • Experience driving sustained behavioral adoption through structured reinforcement and leadership partnership

  • Experience in measuring skill adoption and linking capability to performance outcomes

  • Executive presence with the ability to facilitate senior-level sellers and influence frontline leaders

  • Experience leveraging AI or digital coaching tools to scale sales capability and reinforcement

Compensation Disclosure

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$148,000.00 - $238,500.00/yr

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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