Revolutionizing protection.

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 take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

As the Principal Product Manager for the Cortex Platform, you will lead our mission to secure the world's digital transformation by developing core components for the entire Cortex portfolio. You will tackle complex cybersecurity challenges, leveraging AI to deliver a simple, intuitive user experience. This role is central to shaping the future of cloud security by protecting the world's most critical digital assets on a market-leading, rapidly growing platform.

Your Impact

• Drive feature development through the entire product lifecycle, from customer feedback collection and feature prioritization to writing product requirements and ensuring engineering delivery.
• Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams in a global organization to deliver enterprise-grade, high-reliability, and cloud-scale features.
• Work closely with product enablement, marketing, and sales teams to evangelize products, conducting demos and presentations for internal partners and external customers.
• Solve complex problems requiring cross-company alignment, delivering foundational functionality for the Cortex product platform.
• Define and analyze metrics that measure the success of products, simplifying complex data to inform future product decisions.
• Challenge the status quo by curiously and positively questioning existing processes to identify opportunities for innovation in product strategy and execution.
• Ensure alignment across teams by clearly communicating product roadmaps, dependencies, and trade-offs to all stakeholders.

Your Experience 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in a cross-functional, enterprise environment.
• BSc/MS in Computer Science, another engineering/technical degree, or equivalent military experience.
• Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity and building enterprise-scale, high-performing, globally available SaaS products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to influence stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with effective skills in managing multiple tasks, projects, priorities, and deadlines.
• A strong team player with a 'can-do' approach, excellent people skills, and a positive mentality.
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• Proven ability to manage product planning with multiple stakeholders within large, matrixed organizations.

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 the 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 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.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $166,000/YR - 268,500/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