Solutions Consultant

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Solutions Consultant and play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure customer's key business imperatives. You will provide technical leadership and expertise, guiding customers through their security transformation journey. This role involves meeting and exceeding sales quotas, understanding customer business requirements, and driving customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. You will also conduct discovery, work with other teams to ensure successful implementation, and demonstrate strong communication skills. The position requires strong technical skills and experience in pre-sales/sales engineering, and involves travel to support in-person customer meetings.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
• Strong understanding of data networking, security architectures, and modern cloud computing environments
• 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
• Proficient in English

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Understand Key customer business requirements and have 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred

Benefits

The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus