Solutions Consultant 2

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here everyone has a voice and every idea counts. If youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customers security transformation journey.

You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customers key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem cloud and security operations services that establish PANW as your customers cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact
Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions. This solutions consultant role is both atechnical advisorand ahunting focus

• Your ability to position demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs

• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical operational and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers

• Working closely with Professional Services Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions

• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos technical engagements and workshops

• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists Channel Resources Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy

• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner

• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership

• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events

• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

• Understanding of data networking and/ or modern application design and cloud architectures

• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives

• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a presales role is ideal

• Creating and delivering technical presentations workshops or technical validation engagements

• Experience in selling designing implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security SASE SaaS CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies

• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions

• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred

• Strong professional communication in English

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big 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.

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