Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting the digital way of life through innovative security technologies. The Solutions Consultant 2 provides technical leadership throughout customers’ security transformation journeys, develops solution guidance, and drives value realization. The role focuses on strategic technical account planning, customer discovery, demonstrations, technical validations, cross-functional collaboration, and adoption of cybersecurity solutions.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
- Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
- 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
- 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
- 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
- This role is remote.
- Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together.
- The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
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