Product Manager (Quantum-safe Cryptographic Inventory)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a visionary Product Manager to lead the development and global strategy for our Quantum-Safe Security application delivering Cryptography Lifecycle Management starting with Inventory and Readiness leveraging the Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) platform. As organizations face the Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL) threat of quantum computers and the looming NIST 2030/2035 mandates you will own the industrys first Closed-Loop cryptographic resilience platform. You will transform our global network footprintthe largest in the worldinto an intelligent sensor and enforcement engine that discovers cryptographic Shadow Debt and secures the digital future of the worlds most critical enterprises and governments.

This is a chance to have a profound impact enabling our customersfrom global enterprises to service providersto deploy cutting-edge security features including the latest innovations in threat prevention and Generative AI. If youre ready to tackle complex challenges and play a pivotal role in the world of cybersecurity we invite you to apply.

Your Impact

• Define Product Vision & Strategy: Establish the strategic vision for the Crypto-Resilience Enginean intelligent core that continuously analyzes and prioritizes cryptographic risks across hybrid-cloud IoT and on-prem environments. You will define the multi-year roadmap for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration aligning with global standards like NSM-10 and CNSA 2.0.

• Lead Roadmap Execution: Drive the end-to-end development and communication of the product roadmap to Federal agencies global banking institutions and internal stakeholders. You will prioritize the Visibility Journey for four core asset classes: Applications Users Infrastructure and IoT devices.

• Innovate Core Technologies: Manage the development of First-in-Class features including the Cipher Translation Proxy (a Virtual Patch for legacy systems) AI-Powered Prioritization for Crown Jewel assets and AI Canvas Visualizations for real-time executive reporting.

• Drive Strategic Growth: Champion the future of cryptographic agility transforming Palo Alto Networks from a security component provider into the end-to-end manager of a customers entire cryptography lifecycle.

• Collaborate on GTM: Partner with Product Marketing Sales and our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams to build custom integrations for complex environments (Mainframes Proprietary OT) and scale the subscription.

• Analyze Performance: Monitor and leverage product telemetry from the Strata Logging Service (SLS) to quantify risk reduction and prove the ROI of the PQC transition to board-level stakeholders.

   

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Minimum Big Data Platforms: Experience building SaaS applications that deliver great user experience on massive-scale logging and data platforms (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery or SLS)

• Minimum Classical Cryptography: SSL/TLS IPsec digital certificates (PKI) and algorithms such as RSA ECC and Diffie-Hellman.

• Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): Familiarity with NIST standards (ML-KEM ML-DSA SLH-DSA) and the computational overhead involved in hybrid key exchanges.

• Network Infrastructure: Layer 7 inspection App-ID SSL Decryption and next-generation firewall (NGFW) architectures.

• Professional Background: 3 years of Technical Architect or Product Management experience in Cybersecurity specifically within Network Security PKI or Cloud Security. Bonus if you have a documented track record of launching and scaling enterprise-grade security products to significant ARR.

  Your Experience

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Mathematics Physics or Engineering is required. An MS or MBA from a top-tier institution is strongly preferred.

• Category Creation: Ability to take a 0-to-1 concept and define a new market segment in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.

• Executive Influence: Expertise in translating highly technical cryptographic concepts into Business Risk and Financial Impact for C-level executives.

• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Leading complex projects that span Engineering Business Development (3rd-party connectors like Qualys/Splunk) and Field Teams.

• Strategic Advisory: Acting as a subject matter expert in global standards bodies (NIST NCCoE CISA).

Additional Information :

The Team

Were 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.

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 $144000/YR - $220000/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.

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