Director of Research (Cortex)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

Are you passionate about using cutting edge data science approaches to help protect the world against cyber-threats? Do you live and breathe the cyber security world? Do you want to take part in an innovative and disruptive team that will have an impact on the lives of many customers?

You will cross-functionally lead a group of security researchers focusing on delivering security outcomes to our customers. You will lead projects, customer interaction and leadership discussions from both a research and business perspective. You will partner with other research, engineering, product and marketing leaders to make sure your impact is delivered across all possible avenues.

Your Impact

• Be the main driver for cross functional research projects requiring deep dives and high level business guidance
• Foster deep relationships with high value customers to enable them to get the best security outcomes
• Collaborate and partner up with different research, marketing, engineering and PM teams to deliver outcomes in every aspect
• Lead executive level discussions and be a part of building the roadmap and influence key decision points
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• At least 7 years technical management of a security research group
• Considerable experience in at least one security subject area
• Experience leading and mentoring managers of manager
• Knowledge of endpoint security and products
• Excellent communication skills - ability to present research results & vision in a clear and meaningful manner to executive leadership
• Ability to interact with business partners with confidence; Understanding and identifying use cases and present solutions in an articulate manner
• Ability to lead and influence without authority effectively
• Advantages:
• Experience with big data platforms (e.g GCP)
• Experience with XDR/EDR/NDR products
  

Additional Information

The Team

The Cortex & Prisma Research Group is in the frontier of stopping attackers using advanced analytics. We are a group of experienced researchers and engineers focused on building the right product for our customers and reducing the effort they need to invest to detect and prevent attacks. We always help each other and build every product as a team.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 [email protected].

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

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 [email protected].

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.