Solutions Consultant - Federal Civilian

Palo Alto Networks; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 173,000 - 237,500; Full time

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FLEXBenefits Wellbeing Spending Account

Mental Health Resources

Financial Health Resources

Personalized Learning Opportunities

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Solutions Consultant to lead the charge in transforming cybersecurity for clients. This role is pivotal in understanding customer needs and delivering tailored solutions that enhance security and operational efficiency. You will engage with key stakeholders, drive technical validation efforts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation. With a commitment to ongoing learning and a supportive environment, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity while making a significant impact in the industry.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales or sales engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity solutions and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform.
• Meet and exceed sales quotas through strategic account planning.

Skills

Pre-sales/Sales Engineering

Data Networking

Security Architectures

Cloud Computing

Technical Presentations

Customer Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Certifications

Tools

Cybersecurity Solutions

SASE

Network Security

Job description

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. You 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. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Role

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.
• Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy.
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating PANW's leadership in the cybersecurity space
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
• Strong understanding of data networking, security architectures, and modern cloud computing environments
• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• 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
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
• Proficient in English
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. 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. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

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.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $173000 - $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security

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