Palo Alto Networks
Principal Product Manager – AI Agents for Branch Network Operations
$177K–$286K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of product management experience in networking, network security, or IT infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Build and bring to market AI agents in Strata Cloud Manager that automate branch network troubleshooting, security checks, configuration health, and software upgrade recommendations across NGFW and SASE products.
What you'll do
- Own product strategy, roadmap, specifications, prototypes, and user experience; validate needs with customers and work with engineering to ship.
- Set agent safety, approval, and rollback rules; track product outcomes and use them to guide development.
- Define packaging and pricing, support enterprise sales and partner/MSP enablement, and coordinate across product and business teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of product management experience in networking, network security, or IT infrastructure.
- Experience shipping management, monitoring, or troubleshooting products; experience building products using AI, machine learning, or large language models.
- Strong networking fundamentals and understanding of branch security, including firewalls, SASE, SD-WAN, and identity-based access.
- Experience with product strategy and go-to-market through direct enterprise sales and partners; ability to write specs and build prototypes.
Nice to have
- SaaS experience; AI-agent experience is a strong plus.
- Experience in wired switching, enterprise Wi-Fi, cloud-managed networking, AIOps, or multi-tenant/MSP platforms; relevant certifications or a Master's degree/MBA.
Pay
$176,800.00 - $286,000.00/yr (base salary)
Tools
Strata Cloud Manager, NGFW, SASE, SD-WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs
AI focus
Build AI agents to troubleshoot branch networks, check security posture and configuration health, and recommend software upgrades; define agent behavior, data use, approval and safety rules, and outcome measures.
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