Senior Product Manager GlobalProtect Cloud Services - palo_alto_networks : Job Details

As a Product Manager for public clouds you will work on cutting edge technologies that are defining the future of our digital life. This role primarilyfocusses on security ofapplications and data inpublic clouds (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), and related technologies such as virtual networks, serverless computing, and microservices.

As a Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in innovating new features and products that uniquely solve customer problems related to public clouds.You will beexpected todeliver product functionality forthe area of ownershipthat matches Palo Alto Networks' level of innovationfound throughout the product.You will bemostlyinvolvedwith thepubliccloud focused security offerings through all stages of the product life cycle managing strategic planning, feature selection and tactical activities. You must also be a self-starter, keen to learn and experiment with new technologies, be able to work independently and as a team player, identify sales needs and address them as needed. The job requires approximately 10-15 percent travel.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of public cloud roadmap for the VM-Series next generation virtual firewalland automation solutions tosecure public cloud deployments at scale. This includes managing the associated feature set including feature prioritization and tradeoff decision making.
• As the subject matter expert, help customers, channel partners, and system engineers with product related questions and hands-on technical training.
• Understanding key customer problems, requirements development and ensuring feature/productis buildright to solve the key problems
• Establish technical leadership and work very closely with the public cloud partners to build innovative solutions to secure workloads in public cloud environments
• Collaborating with Product Marketing to createproduct related sales and marketing materials; evangelizing the products and product strategyboth internally and externally
• Work with your Technical Marketing Engineer to help customers, channel partners, and system engineers with product related questions and hands on technical training.
• Ability to work effectively with all areas of the organization, frombusiness development,engineering to sales
• Customer engagement and relationshipdevelopment for product evangelism, and requirements gathering

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3-5years in product management or equivalent and a proven experience of taking ownership and delivering on full product life cycle.
• Must have hands-on experience withone or morepublic clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Must haveexperience with some of the public cloud features such as VPCnetworking, routing, auto-scaling, serverless computing, containersetc.
• Experience with scripting languages (Node.js or Python), templates (CFT, ARM, YAML, or Terraform), and API-based automation/orchestration is highly desired.
• Experience with private cloud environments and hypervisors including VMware vSphere/NSX, and KVM is a plus.
• Must have prior experience delivering technical product training, producing technical collaterals, and presenting to customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS/MS or equivalent experience is required.