Product Marketing Manager, Threat Prevention and WildFire

Job Description

As a Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in planning and executing the product marketing strategy for our Advanced Threat subscriptions, Threat Prevention (Intrusion Prevention - IPS, Intrusion Detection - IDS) and WildFire (Malware Analysis and Sandoxing).

You will work closely with marketing, product management, industry analysts, sales, customers and technology partners, to deeply understand our target audience, their key security issues and the competitive landscape. This knowledge will empower you to define our unique value proposition then drive messaging, content creation, thought leadership, sales enablement and competitive analysis for the product line that you are responsible for.

Working closely with key stakeholders to develop and execute your strategy, your success will drive innovation and establish Palo Alto Networks as the clear leader in the prevention of Advanced Threats.

• Establish the unique value proposition and messaging for your product line, with a clear understanding of the target markets and buyer personas

• Author compelling, high-quality content, both at a business and a technical level, in a variety of formats including print, web, social media, and video

• Launch products and collaborate with field teams to execute marketing campaigns to deliver on awareness and pipeline targets

• Enable the sales and channel teams to understand, present and become subject matter experts in IPS and Sandboxing

• Effectively work at building and executing plans that cross different functional groups, including product management, go to market, sales, and analyst relations

• Represent the company in customer engagements and at events, to evangelize our point of view and be recognized as an expert in your industry

Qualifications

• 2+ years in within intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, malware analysis, or sandboxing
• 5+ years of technology product marketing, product management, or technical marketing experience

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Proven ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders

• Creative thinker able to develop and deliver engaging presentations in a range of environments, from large internal teams, to industry conferences and customer briefings

• Experience in cybersecurity or with network security technologies (eg. Firewall, NGFW, IPS)

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, MBA preferred

Additional Information

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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[emailprotected].

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.

#LI-KF1