Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Your CareerAs a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Prisma AIRS at Palo Alto Networks, you will join a team responsible for driving AI security. You will work with cutting-edge technology, redefining the future.This role plays a key role in supporting our product managers, marketing teams, and customers by developing outbound technical communication, including product best practices, competitive reviews, demo environments, and ownership of product betas. You will perform competitive analysis, perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.  This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact. The ideal candidate would be able to influence strategy, collaborate with marketing and sales teams to execute go to market strategies, act as a thought leader at the industry level, evangelizing the products and product strategy both internally and externally.Your ImpactDevelop, constantly refine, and execute the technical marketing planBe responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of effective technical tools, whitepapers, demos, videos and technical training for sales, customers, and partnersLead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releasesLead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales, customers, and partnersBe a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks, speaking at seminars, conferences, customer briefings, and with other groups within the companyWork with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge themBe the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questionsIdentify Sales challenges based on any competitive situations and provide solutions Document technical concepts to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possibleSetup and maintain a competitive test lab including test harness, competitive products, automation environment, etc.  Configure and test competitive products, evaluate product strengths for security efficacy, product features, etc. Work with marketing to develop collaterals with battle cards, presentations, and white papers