Dir, Product Management - Cortex Cloud Application Security

Company Description

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

The Cortex Cloud Application Security product is part of Palo Alto Networks’ cloud security product. And represents the shift left motion of application security for cloud applications. The group is responsible for creating a product that covers that entire Application Security persona , from the first phases of code scanning , through the pipeline scanning and through production to allow E2E view of an AppSec person journey. Our goal is to have a simple and comprehensive AppSec journey while providing first-in-class developer experience and streamline the work between all the different players.

We are looking for a Director of Product Management who can help us design, build and ship industry defining products to help application security and developers build more secure cloud applications.

You will own the strategy and execution to make security an effortless part of the coding process, focusing exclusively on the developer and DevOps persona: this include code scanners to ensure security is deeply integrated with the developer workflow and provide frictionless developer experience

If you are highly motivated, competitive, think out-of-the-box and have great innovative ideas, come join our Cloud Application Security product management group and join some of the best minds in the world to shape the future of Application Security .

Your Impact

Build and launch enterprise class products throughout the entire product lifecycle - collect customers’ feedback and hear their need, prioritize features and trade offs, write the product requirements and work closely with engineering group to deliver the roadmap

Lead core pillars within Cortex Cloud Application Security Offering and grow them to new horizons by bringing innovative and disruptive approaches, and ensure that they can be effectively launch

Working effectively with all areas of the organization in a global company, from engineering to sales

Work closely with our customer success, marketing and sales teams on supporting existing customers, identifying common user problems and taking the solutions you define to market

Understand DevOps and Application security practitioners, often being able to directly relate to and understand use cases

Feature prioritization and trade off decision making

Qualifications

Your Experience

Minimum 7 years in product management with 5 years leading high performance product management teams

Experience in managing group of product managers and designers

Minimum 3 years in product management domain expertise in application security/cloud security vendors required

A track record of delivering customer acquisition growth and optimization across key metrics

Inherent passion for cybersecurity and solving problems

Strong go to market and business analysis skills

Drive to design new, innovative and disruptive solutions

Strong desire to take ownership of new technology products and their full life cycle

Articulate and effective communication skills, both in writing and verbally

Strong desire to take ownership of new technology products and their full life cycle

Team player with a can do approach

BS/MS in Computer Science, Other engineering/technical degree or equivalent military experience required

AI Experience - an advantage

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Product Management Team helps us do just that. This team provides behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information for our systems engineers, staying on top of the environment we sell in, and helping to implement technical solutions based on our client’s feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.