Senior Communications Manager, LATAM

Your Career

The Senior Communications Manager LATAM is responsible for managing and executing external and executive communications programs that position the company as a cybersecurity leader across the region.

You will collaborate with the global communications team and agency partners to help plan develop and localize communications campaigns and stories for the LATAM region. These will include global thoughtleadership initiatives research projects and product/service launches. 

Your experience working closely with the media means that you can spot a great story and develop local campaigns and angles that are creative and engaging to each market while ensuring our message is consistent with our global vision mission and values. 

You will be a critical member of a small team where no two days are alike. You are calm under pressure pride yourself on attention to detail able to manage multiple projects and deliver them on time and you are focused on outcome and results. You are comfortable collaborating with a broad range of internal and external parties from marketing product and sales teams through to journalists partners and customers. 

You have a passion for cybersecurity pride yourself on being an expert storyteller and writer and are as comfortable working individually as you are as part of a large team. 

Your Impact

• Provide Executive Comms support to the President of LATAM Marcos Pupo in development of internal comms All Hands meeting content and execution presentations for EBCs social media and PR and speaking opportunities.  

• Work in partnership with global communications and agencies to develop narratives and campaigns that help build the companys brand and reputation raise awareness and increase share of voice across the region.

• Work with communications leads and agency partners to drive coverage in business and trade media of Palo Alto Networks thoughtleadership initiatives research product launches local customer/partner initiatives and events. 

• Advise and partner with CSuite executives on communications 

• Support the development of messaging documents Q&As articles executive briefing documents to support media and communications activities for LATAM Leadership. 

• Assist with the development of compelling content for use across digital channels including social media posts video and imagery. 

• Act as the day to day contact for a network of PR agencies. 

• Create opeds blog posts and other content to support Palo Alto Networks priorities.

• Assist with the training and development of  a pool of EMEA & LATAM spokespeople including senior executives. 

• Support regional analyst outreach and opportunities at the direction of the Global AR team.. 

• Proactively engage develop and cultivate relationships with tier one media. 

• Foster strong relationships across different business functions including marketing and sales teams to ensure an integrated plan and process is followed for campaigns events etc.

• Ability to understand technology and communicate clearly and concisely how the features and functions translate into tangible customer benefits. 

• The role will require periodic travel (up to 30%) to other international locations.  

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 8 years experience in communications with a focus on tech and/or cybersecurity.

• Experience of working in LATAM roles is essential with global experience a plus. 

• Strong understanding of the regional media environment with a proven track record of originating and shaping narratives and content that drives coverage.

• A strategic thinker who enjoys goalsetting problemsolving and driving momentum.

• Highly organised and selfmotivated overseeing timely firstrate execution. 

• Experience working in a complex global organisation. 

• A team player and creative thinker with experience working with international teams. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with outstanding attention to detail. 

• Experience of managing analyst programmes in LATAM

• Ability to build strong relationships with senior executives. 

• Ability to work under pressure and unphased by lastminute deadlines.

• Have a good understanding of local cultures across the LATAM region.

• Must be proficient in English Portuguese & Spanish Fluency 

Additional Information :

The Team

Our Marketing team has an opportunity like no other industry: high impact work and the chance to change the future of digital security globally. Your hands will be in industryleading content created in the face of rapidly growing threats: cyberattacks. Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our industry and helping our internal teams customers and partners address the everchanging threats we all face on a daytoday basis.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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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.