Senior Product Manager

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

24d•$148,700 - $240,500•Hybrid

About The Position

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! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary As a Senior Product Manager, you will manage key features across our identity security products, including Palo Alto Networks Cloud Identity Engine and User-ID, to ensure robust identification, authorization, authentication, and posture management across cloud and on-premise networks. Your Career In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional engineering, field teams, and external customers to develop proactive upgrade strategies, present product solutions, and drive feature adoption. Work Location: 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite.) Your Impact Manage key features across our identity security product, including experience with: Palo Alto Networks Cloud Identity Engine and User-ID, identifying a user on a network. Oversee Authorization: Management of users, groups, devices, and attributes across on-premise and cloud directories. Oversee Authentication: NTLM, RADIUS, Kerberos, LDAP auth, SAML, OIDC, FIDO2, Passkeys. Manage Identity security: user-based risk modeling with security Risk and posture management across Identity providers, endpoints, and SaaS applications. Handle Secrets vault, Just-in-time access, Zero Trust, Non-human Identities, and continuous authorization. Present in front of internal and external audiences. Partner closely with engineering to develop proactive upgrade strategies. Develop insights into customer deployments and provide recommendations to accelerate feature adoption. Utilize strong communication skills and ability to interface cross-functionally as well as with external customers, field teams, and partners.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
3 years of experience in the Senior Product Manager, or any other related occupation, job title/position.
Designing and deploying IAMs across the following deployment architectures: Cloud Service Providers, Private and public cloud data centers, service provider data center, Large enterprise networks, Financial networks, High-performance computing (HPC).
Technology Management.
Management Writing.
Management Presentation.
Sales and Business Development.
Hands-on operational (real-world, device and appliance management).
Identity Access Management (IAM) - Microsoft Entra-ID, Okta, Active Directory, openLDAP, Ping Identity, Google Identity.
Identity standards (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, SSF), RFCs, frameworks, and architectures.

Responsibilities

Manage key features across our identity security product, including experience with: Palo Alto Networks Cloud Identity Engine and User-ID, identifying a user on a network.
Oversee Authorization: Management of users, groups, devices, and attributes across on-premise and cloud directories.
Oversee Authentication: NTLM, RADIUS, Kerberos, LDAP auth, SAML, OIDC, FIDO2, Passkeys.
Manage Identity security: user-based risk modeling with security Risk and posture management across Identity providers, endpoints, and SaaS applications.
Handle Secrets vault, Just-in-time access, Zero Trust, Non-human Identities, and continuous authorization.
Present in front of internal and external audiences.
Partner closely with engineering to develop proactive upgrade strategies.
Develop insights into customer deployments and provide recommendations to accelerate feature adoption.
Utilize strong communication skills and ability to interface cross-functionally as well as with external customers, field teams, and partners.