Full-Time Solutions Consultant

Your CareerThe Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Positioning, demonstrating and creating high-level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• 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 and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• 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 our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills
• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders
• 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
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions is preferred
• Proficient in English

The Team

Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.

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 $198000 - $273000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

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