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:

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:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical
  account plans that target cross-platform solutions.

• Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position,
  demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions
  creating business value for customers.

• Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer
  relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency,
  security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.

• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and
  commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers

• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to
  ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.

• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and
  customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are
  clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences

• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure
  technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and orchestrating
  supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a
  one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy.

• 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 PANW's
  leadership in the cybersecurity space

• 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

• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build
  and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications:

• Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering

• Strong understanding of data networking, security architectures, and modern cloud
  computing environments

• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and
  influence new business initiatives is preferred

• 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

• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers
  and multi-product solutions are preferred

• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in
  person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this
  position.

• Proficient in English

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.

$208,000.00 - $286,000.00/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.