Regional Sales Manager Local Gov - Region Ouest

Palo Alto Networks; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Regional Sales Manager to lead complex enterprise deals within a remote-capable role. You will build strategic account plans, drive revenue growth, and collaborate with internal teams to win in the cybersecurity space.

This position emphasizes channel partnerships, consultative selling, and achieving quota in a dynamic environment. Expect travel within your territory and a fast-paced, high-impact team.

Qualifications

• Experience with SaaS architectures in networking/security contexts.
• Proven ability to cultivate channel partnerships for go-to-market success.
• Lead all aspects of the sales cycle from discovery to closing in new/white-space territories.
• Knowledge of the U.S. DoW, intelligence community, or civilian agencies.
• Track record selling complex solutions to enterprise customers.
• Excellent time management with autonomy and self-direction.
• Highly competitive, fast to ramp, and consistently outsell targets.
• Proficiency in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex sales cycles and coordinate with internal teams to serve customers.
• Build relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors.
• Create and execute strategic account plans to win enterprise deployments.
• Understand competitive landscape and articulate value of Palo Alto Networks.
• Generate demand and expand your territory through programmatic efforts.
• Use customer stories to demonstrate value per account.

Skills

SaaS architectures

Channel partnerships

Sales cycle leadership

Intelligence community knowledge

Complex solutions selling

Time management

Autonomy

French

English

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!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

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

The Regional Sales Manager is a significant driver of company revenue and growth. As an experienced and dynamic sales professional, you’re responsible for leading and driving sales engagements. You’re motivated by the desire to solve critical challenges facing our customer’s secure environment, so you’re prepared to connect them with a solution for every stage of threat prevention.

You’ll be responsible for meeting and exceeding your quota by crafting and implementing strategic territory plans targeting deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Security Platform. This is a unique opportunity for a closer with a go-getter mentality to win business and market share by actively displacing competing technologies.

Palo Alto Networks is leading the charge in platformization, offering best-in-breed solutions that enable customers to build a truly zero-trust security architecture and navigate critical transformations. To ensure our sales team is equipped to guide customers, we've developed FLIGHT, an immersive onboarding program. Flight blends virtual and in-person learning at our headquarters, where new sales hires will participate in dynamic cohorts, fully dedicated to their training without customer distractions. This focused approach ensures they emerge as well-prepared sales professionals, ready to help customers leverage our comprehensive portfolio.

Your Impact

• As a Regional Sales Manager, you will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer

• Bring your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long-standing relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors

• Your focus will be to create and implement strategic account plans focused on attaining enterprise-wide deployments

• Understanding of the strategic competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position Palo Alto Networks

• Engage a programmatic approach to demand to generate, develop, and expand your territory

• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account.

• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services

• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meeting

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security context

• Experience cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers

• Have and able to lead all aspects of the sales cycle with the ability to uncover, qualifying, developing, and closing new, white-space territories and accounts

• Deep knowledge of the (U.S. DoW and/or intelligence community/or Civilian Agencies)

• Possess a successful track record selling complex-solutions

• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

• Highly competitive, ramp quickly, extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding production goals

• French and 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 [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.