Solutions Consultant - Presales

Job Summary

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 Career

The Solutions Consultant is a career that builds you into a technical partner and trusted advisor. You bring expertise, present high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions and create business value for customers. You influence the sales process through technical presentations, demos and workshops and work closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption.

Your Impact

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross‑platform solutions.
• Understand key customer business requirements and position, demonstrate, and create high level designs across the PANW portfolio, delivering business value.
• Drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform; build relationships that improve productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and flexibility to innovate.
• Conduct discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of prospects and customers.
• Work closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, influence through effective presentations and customer‑specific demos, and conduct technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences.
• Lead successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Demonstrate 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.
• Promote end‑to‑end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner.
• Understand the competitive landscape and effectively differentiate PANW’s leadership in the cybersecurity space.
• Continuously invest in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever‑increasing contributions to the success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events.
• Identify technical stakeholders and cultivate relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in pre‑sales/sales engineering.
• Skilled in at least one of the following: Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.
• Experience delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives.
• Influencing and gaining buy‑in from key stakeholders, either in a customer‑facing or internal role; prior pre‑sales experience is ideal.
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements.
• Experience 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.
• This is a field sales position where travel may be required to support in‑person customer meetings; please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
• Proficient in English and French.

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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.

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.