Senior Manager, Technical Marketing Engineer

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

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Lead and scale a high-performing TME team focused on SASE/SSE while staying hands-on as an individual contributor. You will drive technical strategy, field enablement, and customer engagement — operating at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and GTM. This role blends people leadership with deep technical execution.

Requirements

10+ years in cybersecurity — TME, Product Management, Solutions Engineering, or Engineering.
3+ years leading or mentoring technical teams in customer-facing environments.
Deep expertise in SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP, and Zero Trust architectures.
Strong networking and security fundamentals across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Proven track record building demos, labs, reference architectures, and field-ready technical content.
Excellent executive communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
Hands-on expertise using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain/LlamaIndex, and AI-native IDEs.
Experience building AI-driven demos, copilots, automation workflows, and agentic pipelines.
Strong Python and API integration skills.
Understanding of AI security risks — DLP, prompt injection, data exposure, and agentic threat vectors.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Gartner MQ, Forrester Wave, or analyst evaluation programs.
Demonstrated ability to be a Leader and Builder, comfortable mentoring a team and executing hands-on.
A systems thinker who focuses on architecture and outcomes, not just individual product features.
A storyteller who can simplify complexity and make technical concepts understandable to any audience.
A scale-minded individual who builds things that replicate, automate, and run without direct involvement.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of TMEs supporting the Prisma SASE/SSE portfolio.
Own technical product strategy across field enablement, analyst programs, and customer engagement.
Define and evangelize SASE/SSE architectures with competitive differentiation.
Influence product roadmap as the voice of the customer.
Present at EBCs, industry conferences, and strategic customer engagements.