Principal, Netsec Product Strategy

Your CareerThe Netsec Product Strategy Principal role is critical to accomplishing our mission, working with our product and cross-functional leaders to develop effective product strategies. You will also track key industry and competitive trends and educate, shape and incubate ideas to feed the strategic planning process. Lastly, you will leverage your operational/executional mindset to facilitate the translation of Strategic plans into Strategy Deployment Initiatives. It is a highly visible role and an ideal entry point for future growth within Palo Alto Network.The successful candidate will be very clear-minded, inventive, collaborative, data driven and able to see trends before they happen. You’ll bring deep experience in interfacing with Product and Engineering teams and help develop our forward-looking product strategies with the product leaders, providing enough tension on the process to ensure a great outcome, yet collaboratively to arrive at unified proposals. Your ImpactDevelop a strong technical foundation in the products and services we currently have as the basis for defining our future directionEngage with external business and industry experts to learn and influence business strategies, constantly- remaining alert and forward-thinking about opportunities and risks in the industryIdentify top growth areas to continue to drive industry leading growth and stay ahead of the competitionWork closely with the product area and cross-functional leaders on specific product strategy initiatives to define where we want to go and how we get thereUnderstand customer challenges and problems that need to be solved, and how our approach will be best/ uniquely positioned to  solve those problemsSupport and help drive business analysis on existing products to identify strengths and opportunitiesLeverage clarity in thought to effectively structure and communicate our strategies and plans to get approval from exec-staff on a path forwardServe as a close advisor to the Product Leadership team to ensure progress in critical areas