Our MissionAt Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.
Who We AreIn order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job SummaryAt Palo Alto Networks, we're not just building products - we're revolutionizing cybersecurity. As the Principal Product Manager for Cortex Platform, you'll lead our mission to secure the world's digital transformation. If you're ready to lead the charge in revolutionizing cloud security, we want to hear from you.
Why Cortex?
- Market Leader - Join the fastest-growing cloud security platform, trusted by many customers worldwide
- Innovative Culture - Work alongside some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity, constantly pushing boundaries
- Massive Impact - Protect the world's most critical digital assets and shape the future of cloud security
- Rapid Growth - Be part of a team that's scaling at an unprecedented rate, with abundant opportunities for career advancement
Your ImpactThe Cortex Platform product group is responsible for developing core capabilities available to customers of the entire Cortex product portfolio, including XSIAM, XDR, AgentiX, and Cortex Cloud. We work directly with customers, and also collaborate with Internal teams to provide foundational capabilities for them to integrate with.
Our daily work involves tackling complex cybersecurity challenges to help customers secure their environments, all while providing a simple and intuitive user experience. We build products and features in areas such as Multi-tenant and MSSP offerings, Agentic workflows, Threat intelligence, Identity and Access Management (SBAC, RBAC etc), Case investigation, Search, Dashboarding, Reporting, Compliance and governance, Regional and Cloud Availability, Resilience, and more. We leverage AI in our development processes and integrate it directly into the products we create.
Key Responsibilities
- Defining and owning the product vision, roadmap in alignment with the overall Cortex strategy for multiple cyber security platform areas including Analytics, Search & Reporting, Platform Availability, Health & Resiliency, Shared Experiences & workflows across our product portfolio
- Conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends and customer needs, gather customer feedback, understand customer pain points, define problem statements to propose and prioritize feature development.
- Design and develop enterprise-grade features through close collaboration with partner product, research, engineering, and UX/UI design teams.
- Work closely with product enablement, marketing and sales teams to evangelize the product internally and externally, and conduct product demos and presentations to internal stakeholders and customers.
Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in cross-group, cross-functional, product management roles in cybersecurity/enterprise B2B SaaS products.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging modern AI productivity tools to accelerate prototyping, PRD creation, synthesize complex customer feedback
- A strong technical background, and building enterprise scale, high performing, and globally available SaaS products
- Product management experience within large organizations, collaborating across multiple teams, and managing product planning with multiple internal stakeholders
- Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills in English, and the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
- Self-motivated, and effective management of multiple tasks, projects, priorities, and deadlines
- Team player with a can do approach, excellent people skills, and positive mentality
- BSc/MS in Computer Science, another engineering/technical degree or equivalent military experience.
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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
