Solutions Consultant 1

Palo Alto Networks • Kansas City, MO

1d • $173,000 - $237,500 • Remote

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Solutions Consultant to join their team. This role is an evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, focusing on understanding customer environments, providing solution guidance, and ensuring value realization from their investment in Palo Alto Networks. The Solutions Consultant will provide technical leadership and expertise to guide customers through their security transformation journey. They will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure customer business imperatives and evangelize the company's industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services. This role is remote, with hybrid teams collaborating across geographies. The company fosters a culture of trust, accountability, and shared success.

Requirements

• 6+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Understanding key customer business requirements and positioning, demonstrating, and creating high-level designs across the entire Palo Alto Networks portfolio to create business value for customers.
• Driving customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform by building customer relationships and 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 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 conducting 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.
• Demonstrating cross-functional leadership by driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach with a cohesive strategy.
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include Palo Alto Networks and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner.
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating Palo Alto Networks' leadership in the cybersecurity space.
• Continuously investing in self to develop technical and professional skills that drive increasing contributions to customer success, 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.

Benefits

• Restricted stock units
• Bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed