As our Solutions Consultant Director, you are the technical leader for your District Solutions Consulting team. You will work closely with the District Sales Manager and regional sales leader, along with your team, build relationships with your customers with the goal of helping them detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches. Our customers need guidance on what applications to deploy from our platform. Your guidance, expertise, and mentorship of your team will keep them ahead of the latest cyberthreats and stay on the leading edge of prevention.
As the technical leader for your assigned territory, you will guide and develop your team to define innovative technical solutions that secure customers' key business imperatives and maximize the value of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You will champion our industry leadership in on-premises, cloud, and security operations services, establishing Palo Alto Networks as the preferred cybersecurity partner for your customers. You will also nurture talent within your team and provide valuable feedback to the product management team on new feature requests and product improvements based on insights gained from your customer interaction. Your team 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.
Your Impact
Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.
Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative
Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers
50-75% travel within the region
Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.
Qualifications
Your Experience
Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Leader
Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist
Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products
Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base
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
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
Proficient in English
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.
