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.
Want more jobs like this?
Get Computer and IT jobs in Santa Clara, CA delivered to your inbox every week.
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 a Product Manager focused on automation, integrations, API and API infrastructure, your primary responsibility is to conceptualize, gather feedback from customers and partners, and guide building features that provide the best developer and integration experience for customers and partners. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, technical partnerships, professional services, 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
- Understand customer problems and use cases intimately
- Collaborate with engineering and other product team members to deliver high-quality products that solve customer problems with a differentiated, automated and optimized approach
- Own the vision, roadmap and requirements for your features
- 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
- Interact with customers, partners and sales engineering teams in different forums to gather feedback and evangelize the product
- Collaborate with technical marketing, sales engineering, integrations teams, professional services and technical support teams to train the field teams, gather feedback during betas and help with escalations
Your Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent military experience required
- Proven experience (4+ years) in product management roles, with a focus on networking, Cloud Management of networking devices or related technologies
- Strong understanding of cloud computing principles and architectures, with expertise in cloud security and firewall solutions
- Must have product management in: APIs (JSON/REST), Terraform (ecosystem and functionality) and Ansible, developer tools, SDK definition, WebHooks and streaming APIs
- Experience in defining and managing products related to APIs (Cloud based), API infrastructure, security of APIs, developer portals, terraform provider
- Have created or help create a world-class developer portal and integration market place
- Ability to work with 3rd party partners, integrators including providing foundational code, code samples etc.
- Have a defined vision around "API first" approach to development
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Ideally has hands-on experience in managing devices from onboarding to decommissioning and ongoing device operations
- Analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements and strategies
- Experience with agile development methodologies and tools
- Demonstrated ability to drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- This is not a remote position and will require coming to the office per Palo Alto Networks' policy
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.
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 $166000/YR - $268500/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