Full-Time Cortex Cloud District Sales Manager
Palo Alto Networks is hiring a remote Full-Time Cortex Cloud District Sales Manager. The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting San Francisco, CA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We are seeking a dynamic and experienced District Sales Manager to drive and mentor a high-performing sales team focused on our Cortex Cloud business across the region.
This leader will play a critical role in scaling our business, fostering innovation, and ensuring consistent execution of sales strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.
- Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.
- Drive strategic sales initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.
- Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (sales engineers, marketing, alliances) to support deal execution and customer success.
- Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.
Experience Required:
- 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment.
- Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling, and enterprise buying processes.
- Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP solutions is preferred.
- Established relationships with key security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs).
- Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization.
- "Whatever it takes" attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance.
Compensation: $322,000/YR - $443,500/YR (base salary + commission target).