Director of Product: Next-Gen Firewall & AI Security

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 238,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Director of Product Management for the core Network Security unit to drive vision, lifecycle expansion, and market execution for the NGFW portfolio. You will balance technical definition with market empathy, accelerating growth and guiding cross-functional programs across engineering, sales, and marketing.

You will champion AI-enabled workflows, shape architectural evolution of NGFW/PAN-OS, and lead efforts across NGFW, Prisma Access, SASE, and CDSS to create

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise networking, security, or cloud infrastructure at massive scale.
• Strong systems engineering mindset with the ability to conceptualize and deliver clean, complex system-level specifications.
• Strong business acumen with experience monetizing products and managing large customer commitments.
• Strong background partnering with Sales and Marketing to enable field teams and align roadmaps with demand.
• Exceptional ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and present data-driven insights to executives.

Responsibilities

• Drive Portfolio Growth: Pivot product strategy to capture expansion across modern data centers, campus environments, and distributed branches.
• Portfolio Optimization & Customer Success: Identify critical technological and business gaps within the NGFW portfolio and architect strategies to resolve them.
• System-Level Specifications: Translate high-level goals into rigorous system-level specifications across product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Go-To-Market Partnership: Work with GTM and PMM to develop high-conversion sales plays, pricing strategies, and launch plans.
• Competitive Landscape Mastery: Maintain a dynamic understanding of the competitive landscape to establish differentiation.
• AI Tool Integration & Workflows: Champion AI tools across product definition, telemetry synthesis, and lifecycle workflows.
• Modernize NGFW/PAN-OS: Shape architectural evolution with converged networking and robust security.
• Cross-Functional Adoption: Drive adoption across NGFW, Prisma Access, SASE, and CDSS.
• AI Data Center Fabric Security: Lead security architecture for AI data centers with scalable firewall clusters and inline threat defense.
• Sovereign & Regulated Markets: Align architectures with global regulatory mandates.
• Air-Gapped & On-Premise Infrastructures: Architect zero-touch provisioning for isolated environments.
• Ecosystem Integration & Network Evolution: Integrate adjacent capabilities to maximize ecosystem synergy.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Security architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Monetization strategy

Data-driven decision making

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Director of Product Management for the core Network Security unit to drive vision, lifecycle expansion, and market execution for the NGFW portfolio. You will balance technical definition with market empathy, accelerating growth and guiding cross-functional programs across engineering, sales, and marketing.

You will champion AI-enabled workflows, shape architectural evolution of NGFW/PAN-OS, and lead efforts across NGFW, Prisma Access, SASE, and CDSS to create