Director, Domain Consulting Cortex

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Job Summary

The Domain Consulting Director (DCD) will lead our Domain Consultants (DCs) who are the go-to technical experts assisting the sales team in generating growth.

This position will require a business savvy individual with a strong technical background in security platform application architecture and sales coupled with a successful track record in team management.

Your Impact:

• Collaborate strategically with the Solution Consulting and Sales leadership teams to align technical initiatives with enterprise-wide sales objectives

• Lead and optimize technical pre-sales operations ensuring the successful delivery of solutions that contribute to individual team and organizational goals.

• Engage at a senior technical level with customers and partners and provide valuable insight into industry trends customer challenges technical evolutions and business changes that will help the customer make their security decisions

• Deeply understand and articulate the key technical operational and commercial challenges faced by our prospects and customers that the Palo Alto Networks solution addresses within Cortex

• Ensure effective technical strategy is being executed across the teams to deliver compelling business-focused solutions that address customers security needs within Cortex

• Develop and champion outcome-oriented technical initiatives that drive pipeline and sales partnering closely with the Solution Consulting leadership team to enhance technical efficiency and success.

• Cultivate and maintain strong technical relationships with Palo Alto Networks partners (reseller distribution system integrators and alliances) driving and measuring initiatives to improve technical sales productivity through partner enablement and collaboration

• Lead portfolio expansion initiatives from a technical perspective demonstrating factual results through the successful adoption and upsell of strategic security solutions.

• Ensure technical teams develop deep expertise and utilize knowledge to drive growth high technical win rate and high Proof of Value Win Rate within Cortex.

• Metric-based results should be evident across all areas of focus

• Transparently report and highlight the successes and areas for improvement of technical initiatives within Cortex

• Champion pristine technical talent management including demonstrated development plans and execution for technical personnel initiatives to reduce attrition and a clear history of promotions and technical success

• Operate effectively in a matrixed environment with extended technical and non-technical teams such as Support WW SE Product Management Research & Development and other relevant organizations to resolve complex technical issues and drive innovation

• Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post-sales technical issues that arise within Cortex

• Develop mentor manage and support reporting Domain Consultants with technical and organizational leadership

• Manage successful technical evaluations and proof-of-value ensuring timely completion (PoV duration) while achieving a high POV win rate

Qualifications

• A minimum combination of 8 years of first and/or second line Domain Consulting management experience preferred

• Domain expertise in the areas of SIEM SOAR SOC and/or endpoint environments

• Domain expertise in the areas of public cloud architectures cloud native security models CI/CD DevOps firewalls and other security technologies both from a technology and a business driver standpoint

• Industry knowledge of application development cloud security operations market trends

• Reputation with the solution consulting teams customers and partners as a trusted advisor who will always take care of their needs

• Possess a combination of management technical and business skills - A challenger sales mentality and a fast-growing mindset are a must

• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of Palo Alto Networks roadmap and technology development efforts

• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to PANs customer base and maintains a general understanding of competitive selling strategies

• Demonstrated experience in working directly with customers at senior levels within an organization as well as working with industry partners and alliances

• Possess the intellect and the executive presence to become a true business partner across functions

• 50% Travel

• An articulate social individual that can translate a highly technical solution in simple business terms and develop relationships with decision-makers

• Highly commercial in orientation with a strong focus on the customer and a clear commitment to generating topline growth

• Leading by example this individual when necessary will not hesitate to get into the details of the business

• Highly autonomous individual that can lead a cross-functional project from the ground up and make things happen

• Decisive leader with a passion for the business and a real sense of urgency

• Strategic thinking - To plan and build and other sales and marketing leaders - There will also be a close collaboration with the product team

Our Commitment

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