Palo Alto Networks

Solutions Consultant

Palo Alto Networks$198K — $273K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of pre-sales/sales engineering experience.
  • Skilled in networking, network security, or cybersecurity-related domains.
  • Proven track record in delivering cybersecurity solutions addressing technical challenges.
  • Experience creating and delivering technical presentations and workshops.
  • Prior experience influencing stakeholders in customer-facing or internal roles.
  • Background in selling or managing solutions like Network Security, SASE, or SaaS.
  • Field sales position may require travel for in-person meetings.

Responsibilities

  • Meet and exceed sales quotas with strategic account plans targeting cross-platform solutions.
  • Understand customer needs and create high-level designs across the PANW portfolio for added business value.
  • Drive customer adoption of the Palo Alto Networks Platform and build lasting relationships to enhance productivity and security.
  • Conduct discovery sessions to clarify technical and commercial requirements of prospects and customers.
  • Collaborate closely with Professional Services and Customer Success teams to ensure seamless implementation of solutions.
  • Deliver powerful presentations and technical demos that simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
  • Lead technical validation efforts to ensure success in assigned opportunities.

Benefits

  • Robust employee benefits package including health and wellness programs.
  • Opportunities for professional development and skills enhancement.
  • Participation in industry events and Solutions Consultant community activities.
  • Promoting a collaborative work environment across departments.
  • Support for ensuring customer realization of business value from implemented solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

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.
  • Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.
  • Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.
  • 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, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences
  • Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
  • Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and 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 PANW's leadership in the cybersecurity space
  • 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

Your Experience
  • 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
  • Skilled in at least one of the following Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.
  • Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred
  • Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales 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
  • Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
  • This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
  • Proficient in English


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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$198,000.00 - $273,000.00/yr

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
NASDAQ

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