Director, Product Management - Federal Certifications & Regulated Products (Cortex)

Palo Alto Networks•Office - USA - CA - Headquarters, CA

3d•$243,300 - $333,900

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Director of Product Management to own the Cortex product roadmap for US federal environments, including FedRAMP Moderate and High and IL-5. The role serves as Cortex’s single product-facing point of contact for federal investments and owns commercial-versus-federal parity awareness, capability availability across security boundaries, and accurate readiness and roadmap information for field teams and federal customers. The Director will drive Cortex engineering teams toward audit readiness by translating compliance and audit findings into product and engineering requirements, prioritizing remediation, and coordinating across engineering, NetSec, IT, GNS, DevOps, DevSecOps, certifications, product, and federal field teams. The Global Certifications & Regulated Products team owns authorizations and the audit relationship; this role owns preparing Cortex for those processes. The position also owns Cortex’s federal market and business view, including buyers, total addressable market, business performance across Moderate, High, and IL-5, the competitive landscape, and growth opportunities. The Director will use this information to make investment cases to leadership and represent Cortex in customer-facing discussions, while sales owns the selling motion. The company says most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.

Requirements

Director-level product management experience with security or cloud platforms.
Direct, hands-on experience personally driving federal certifications such as FedRAMP Moderate or High, IL-5, or DoD certifications.
Comfort working with auditing partners and reading audit reports.
Ability to convert audit and compliance findings, including controls, vulnerabilities, and posture gaps, into engineering requirements and drive them to completion.
Strong technical depth, including the ability to read architectures and reason about data flows, module capabilities, and integrations, and to engage credibly with technical leadership.
Proven ability to drive outcomes across many teams under sustained pressure; the role coordinates across more than 10 teams.
Strong customer-facing and field-enablement skills with senior federal stakeholders.
US citizenship, required for hands-on access to federal environments.
Ability to operate autonomously and drive cross-functional efforts in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

Own the roadmap for bringing Cortex capabilities into federal environments, sequencing which capabilities enter each boundary and when.
Serve as the Cortex federal subject-matter expert and single product-facing point of contact; maintain current, documented information about boundary inclusion, feature parity, data flows, and integration differences.
Build and maintain a Cortex module-by-environment availability map covering authorization, transacting, and parity across commercial, Moderate, High, and IL-5 environments.
Drive Cortex engineering teams toward audit readiness by translating controls, vulnerabilities, and posture gaps into product and engineering requirements, prioritizing them, and driving remediation.
Coordinate across Cortex engineering, NetSec, IT, GNS, the certifications team, and other functions to build alignment and participation.
Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps to bring capabilities into federal boundaries and keep them operating.
Equip sales and federal customers with accurate readiness, roadmap, and positioning material.
Represent Cortex in customer-facing discussions about roadmap, capabilities, and differences among Moderate, High, and IL-5 environments; sales owns the selling motion.
Own the federal market and business view for Cortex, including buyers, federal TAM, business performance across Moderate, High, and IL-5, competitive landscape, and growth opportunities.
Use federal market and business analysis to make investment cases to leadership.
Partner with peer federal product managers and the federal sales team to ensure portfolio coverage.