Principal Product Manager (WildFire - Detection) - Palo Alto Networks

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

At Palo Alto Networks, we live by the mantra, "What gets measured gets done." Our product management team thrives on making impactful, data-driven decisions that drive results and keep us ahead of the curve.

Are you driven to elevate operational excellence and ensure world-class service availability through the power of data? Do you shine in cross-functional collaboration, inspiring teams to deliver exceptional product performance? If so, we have an exciting opportunity just for you!

We are looking for a strong product leader who will own and continually raise the bar on service performance, product quality, and customer support. Join us to shape the future of network security with innovation, resilience, and uncompromising standards!

Role Overview:

As the Product Manager for WildFire, you will play a key role in building the next generation of threat detection and prevention services. Your responsibilities will include defining and delivering the overall Wildfire Detection Roadmap. You will work on the best malware detection technology and support its next phase of growth. Your product and threat research engineering team is the best in this business with long tenured engineers. Your responsibilities will include defining sophisticated frameworks to prioritize new capabilities, bringing in insights from customers and threat landscape to keep ahead of malware attacks and measuring ROI for new features. If you are passionate about combating threats and enjoy network security, you will drive significant impact. This role will need both - strong product management skills and deep technical acumen. While we do not expect you to be a malware researcher, working technical knowledge of malware, threats and product engineering will be required.

Your Impact

• Threat Domain Expertise: Deeply understands the customer environment, threat landscape and is seen as a strategic advisor. Correlate technical designs with customer experience to influence new designs and capabilities. Bring unique and deep customer insights to eng/XFN teams.

• Product Plans and Roadmap: Leads setting product vision and strategy with Eng team and XFN stakeholders. Identifies where a new or significantly improved product is needed to meet customer needs or fill a gap in the market. Lead building product roadmap and drive long term product pans

• Execution: Achieve desired outcomes in highly complex environments within stipulated timelines.  Resilience and persistence in the face of challenges, ensuring the team stays on track.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data analytics to monitor and analyze operational metrics, identifying trends, anomalies, and areas for improvements that will influence the WildFire Product Roadmap.

• Go-to Market: Proactively drives holistic product positioning and product launch plans that includes contributing to (i.e. supporting XF) customer pitch decks, whitepapers, demos, sales enablement material etc

Your Experience 

• Experience: Proven experience in product management, preferably within the cybersecurity threat environment.

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of using data to drive decisions.

• Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of threat landscape and network security. Ability to understand complex engineering designs, cloud infrastructure needs, operating system exploits and the processes to build enterprise product (agile)

• Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive initiatives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering; advanced degree or relevant certifications are a plus.

The Team

We’re an innovative team focused on delivering best-in-class, threat detection services. Our mission is to protect our customers’ public cloud workloads with resilient, scalable, and always-on firewall solutions. As the leading FWaaS provider, we successfully integrated in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Driven by a commitment to excellence, we set the standard for best-in-class security across even the most complex cloud infrastructures. We also happen to be one of the fastest-growing Security Products within Palo Alto Networks.

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.

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 - $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.