Principal PM: AI Data Security Strategy

Palo Alto Networks; California; On-site; USD 177,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Palo Alto Networks Data Security team as a Principal Product Manager to spearhead data security for AI traffic, partnering closely with the Prisma AIRS team to build the AI runtime security platform.

In this highly technical, hands-on role, you will define and own the data classification and protection engine for modern AI applications, ensuring enterprises can govern sensitive data across prompts, responses, and agent tool calls.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in CS or related engineering degree.
• 8+ years in highly technical product/engineering roles.
• Deep data security and AI architecture knowledge (DLP, DSPM, CASB, LLMs).
• Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own data security for AI traffic and integration with Prisma AIRS.
• Ensure high detection quality for AI content types (prompts, responses, context, calls).
• Prioritize features with trade-offs on coverage, false positives, and latency budgets.
• Drive market analysis, requirements, business cases, strategy and positioning.
• Engage customers for executive briefings and gather technical requirements.
• Collaborate across engineering, sales and cross-functional teams.

Skills

8+ years experience

Product management

Data security

AI architecture

Threat frameworks

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

MBA (preferred)

Tools

LLM APIs

RAG

Vector databases

Agent frameworks

Job description

Join the Palo Alto Networks Data Security team as a Principal Product Manager to spearhead data security for AI traffic, partnering closely with the Prisma AIRS team to build the AI runtime security platform.

In this highly technical, hands-on role, you will define and own the data classification and protection engine for modern AI applications, ensuring enterprises can govern sensitive data across prompts, responses, and agent tool calls.