Channel Solutions Consultant

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 289,060 - 397,458; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Channel Systems Engineer to drive技nical collaboration with our Canadian partners.

You will enable partner sales and technical teams, build a strong services practice, and align partner activities with Palo Alto Networks' strategic goals. You will train, demonstrate, and support partner teams, travel as needed, and manage recruitment and communications to ensure joint success.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the partner community in Canada, technology trends, and competitive landscape.
• Strong communication and listening skills, including effective delivery of presentations.
• Ability to write and speak clearly and precisely, and structure information logically for digestion.
• Ability to ask questions to clarify situations before acting or making decisions.
• An understanding of how to qualify partner needs to create accord.
• Flexible and adaptable self-starter with strong relationship-building skills.
• Intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability, and positive approach.
• Experience as a SE/SC or Systems Integrator.
• Experience selling, demonstrating, installing or troubleshooting network, endpoint, cloud and application security products.
• Industry knowledge of network products and technology trends.
• Knowledge of competitive solutions and selling strategies.
• Modern datacenter and public cloud infrastructure and technology is preferred.
• Modern network threats and malware is preferred.
• Network forensics and incident response is preferred.
• Automation and orchestration tools and Endpoint security products technologies is preferred.
• Relevant industry certifications – Eg. SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions with partners and enable the partner sales and technical teams.
• Develop and manage a strong services practice with the partner to create joint value.
• Align and build relationships between the partner and Palo Alto Networks.
• Travel and own the technical relationship with channel partners to demo, train, enable, and communicate.
• Manage recruitment, enablement, training and communication objectives with partners.

Skills

Partner ecosystem Canada

Communication

Presentation skills

Questioning for clarification

Relationship building

Self-starter

Curiosity and accountability

Systems Engineering background

Security products knowledge

Cloud and datacenter familiarity

Job description

Our Mission

At 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 Are

In 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 Summary

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Your Career

As a Palo Alto Networks Channel Systems Engineer, you are a critical part of the sales team; it is your responsibility to build solutions and enable the partner, work with the partner to build a strong services practice, align and build relationships between the partner and Palo Alto Networks, and finally build joint value by demonstrating the partner’s strengths, focused around Resell, Professional Services and Managed Services.

You will represent the company as a technical advisor tasked with building excitement and support for the company with the partner’s sales and technical teams. You will travel and take ownership of the technical relationship with our channel partners to demo, train, enable, communicate with and continually engage technical partner team members by dedicatedly managing and delivering technical content and establishing relationships either onsite, online, and via telephone. You will have specific recruitment, enablement, training and communication objectives aligned with the objectives of the company.

Your Impact

• Ability to align partner needs and strategy with the value of Palo Alto Networks

• Provide product demos on all aspects of the Palo Alto Networks Platform

• Provide technical enablement and training to strategic/national partners

• Strategically position Palo Alto Networks with other technologies sold by partners

• Participate in partner business planning activities by supporting the development and execution of the partner technical business plan

• Facilitate the planning and preparation of partner Sales Engineers (SEs) in achieving Palo Alto Networks and industry certifications

• Oversee partner pre-sales activities, including competitive analysis, test plans, demos, proofs of concept, and RFPs

• Cross-communicate Palo Alto Networks and partner value propositions, especially between partner SEs and Palo Alto Networks field Solution Consultants (SCs)

• Understand and effectively present the Palo Alto Networks’ security platform

• Create, execute, and review a technical readiness plan with the CBM/regional sales team, including measurable achievements to track progress

• Provide localized technical training to partner’s pre-sales and post-sales technical resources

• Support product/service training of the partner sales teams

• Educate and promote the use of Palo Alto Networks support model and effective use of available resources

• Collaborate with the CBM/regional sales team on the development and management of the channel partner business plan and mutual action plans

• Understand and communicate the business advantages of a partnership with Palo Alto Networks

• Develop a strong understanding of Palo Alto Networks’ channel partner objectives

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong understanding of the partner community in Canada, technology trends, and competitive landscape

• Strong communication and listening skills, including effective delivery of presentations

• Ability to write and speak clearly and precisely, and structure information logically for digestion

• Ability to ask questions to clarify situations before acting or making decisions

• An understanding of how to qualify partner needs to create accord

• Flexible and adaptable self-starter with strong relationship-building skills

• Intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability, and positive approach

• Experience as a SE/SC or Systems Integrator

• Experience selling, demonstrating, installing or troubleshooting network, endpoint, cloud and application security products

• Industry knowledge of network products and technology trends

• Knowledge of competitive solutions and selling strategies

• Modern datacenter and public cloud infrastructure and technology is preferred

• Modern network threats and malware is preferred

• Network forensics and incident response is preferred

• Automation and orchestration tools and Endpoint security products technologies is preferred

• Relevant industry certifications – Eg. SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc is preferred

The Team

As part of our Systems Engineering team, you’ll support the sales team with technical expertise and guidance when establishing trust with key clients. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats.

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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 [e-mail].

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.

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$204,800.00 - $281,600.00/yr

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 [e-mail].

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.