Palo Alto Networks
Director of Product Management (NGFW)
$238K–$327K
Santa Clara, United States of America · No · Director · Full-time · Posted May 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads strategy, product evolution, and market execution for Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewall portfolio, including AI data center security and integrated networking capabilities.
What you'll do
- Drive NGFW portfolio strategy, growth, adoption, and architectural evolution across data centers, campuses, branches, and related product lines.
- Define system-level product specifications and partner with engineering, sales, marketing, and product teams on launches, pricing, and customer outcomes.
- Lead AI tool adoption in product workflows and develop security architecture for AI data centers, regulated markets, and isolated on-premise environments.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise networking, security, or cloud infrastructure at massive scale.
- Strong systems engineering ability to develop complex system-level specifications.
- Business acumen in monetization, financial outcomes, and large customer commitments.
- Experience partnering with Sales and Marketing, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and presenting data-driven insights to executives.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with modern product development lifecycles and AI tools for product definition, telemetry synthesis, and workflow optimization.
- Experience building and scaling Product-Led Growth motions.
Pay
$238,300.00 - $327,025.00/yr (USD, annual base salary for non-sales roles or base salary + commission target for sales/commissioned roles; posting does not specify which applies)
Tools
NGFW, PAN-OS, Prisma Access, SASE, CDSS, AI
AI focus
Champion AI tools for product definition, telemetry synthesis, and lifecycle workflows; develop AI data center security architecture, including inline AI threat defense and model data sanitization.
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