Sr Solutions Consultant

Overview

Be among the first 25 applicants. This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Description
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.

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions. You define your impact by:
• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Understands key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers
• Drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Build customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate
• Conduct discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your 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, influencing 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 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

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• 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…