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Product Management Academy
Santa Clara, CA (candidate must relocate or be in commuting distance of HQ). The start date for this role will be
August 2025.
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!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.
Job Description
Your Career
You will join an accelerated 2-year Product Management Academy to fast-track you into an experienced and effective PM through rotational team opportunities. In this program, you will play an instrumental role in shaping the industry’s leading cybersecurity solutions.
In addition to your own creativity, you will leverage extensive interactions with customers to identify the most pressing problems they face in securing their environments. You will engage with cross-functional teams to formulate innovative solutions that further our disruption of the cybersecurity industry and fundamentally change how enterprises consume security technology. Finally, you will help ensure those solutions are well understood, adopted, and enjoyed by our customers by working with our Product Marketing, Sales and Go-To Market teams on product launch events and field enablement.
Your Impact
- Shape the future of Palo Alto Networks by defining a product strategy and roadmap that aligns with evolving market needs and customer demands
- Collaborate closely with engineering partners to ensure the successful execution of the product vision and deliver impactful results
- Drive product adoption by partnering with Product Marketing to create effective sales and marketing materials
- Foster product integration across the broader portfolio, ensuring seamless interactions and contributing to the success of our overarching company vision
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Recent or upcoming graduate with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Prior product management internship experience is a plus, though not required
- Demonstrate initiative by managing tasks independently and owning outcomes
- Ability to listen to customers, identify challenges, and solve problems using data or creative solutions
- Collaborate across functions, working with engineering, marketing, UX, and other teams to bring products from concept to launch
- Curiousity about customer needs, focused on driving innovative solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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.
Our organization and employees are committed to changing as rapidly as our industry’s threats do, and to do that, we need creative product teams to address emerging cyber threats. They provide the behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information on our products for our systems engineers, staying on top of the environment we sell in, and helping to implement product wide technical solutions based on our client’s feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.
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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $119000 - $192500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found
here.
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.
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