Principal Technical Marketing Engineer (AI Security)

Your Career

As a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Prisma AIRS at Palo Alto Networks you will join a team responsible for driving AI security. You will work with cutting-edge technology redefining the future.

This role plays a key role in supporting our product managers marketing teams and customers by developing outbound technical communication including product best practices competitive reviews demo environments and ownership of product betas. You will perform competitive analysis perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.  This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact. 

The ideal candidate would be able to influence strategy collaborate with marketing and sales teams to execute go to market strategies act as a thought leader at the industry level evangelizing the products and product strategy both internally and externally.

Your Impact

• Develop constantly refine and execute the technical marketing plan

• Be responsible for the creation maintenance and delivery of effective technical tools whitepapers demos videos and technical training for sales customers and partners

• Lead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releases

• Lead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales customers and partners

• Be a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks speaking at seminars conferences customer briefings and with other groups within the company

• Work with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge them

• Be the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questions

• Identify Sales challenges based on any competitive situations and provide solutions 

• Document technical concepts to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possible

• Setup and maintain a competitive test lab including test harness competitive products automation environment etc.  

• Configure and test competitive products evaluate product strengths for security efficacy product features etc. 

• Work with marketing to develop collaterals with battle cards presentations and white papers

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 15 years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer for network/cybersecurity area or a DevOps/Solution Architect preferably for networking or data security products

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong presentation skills and trade show experience

• Eagerness to learn new technologies experiment with products and collaborate cross-functionally

• Strong customer advocacy skills and experience ability to work in difficult customer situations

• Work towards getting things done Fast learner with strong initiative and sense of ownership

• Experience in automation tools building dashboards etc. 

• Experience with writing and editing technical documentation and operational procedures

• Experience using Kubernetes and Python

Additional Information :

The Team

This team provides the behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information for our sellers partners and customers. Were on top of the environment we sell in and help to implement technical solutions based on our clients 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 $159000 - $255000/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

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time