Solutions Consultant

Job Summary

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.

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Understanding key customer business requirements and having the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.
• Driving customer adoption of the Palo Alto Networks Platform by building relationships that help customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of prospects and customers.
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducting technical engagements and workshops that are clear, impactful and simplify complex ideas for various audiences.
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Demonstrating cross‑functional leadership by driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one‑team approach with a cohesive strategy.
• Promoting end‑to‑end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to help customers realize business value sooner.
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating PANW’s leadership in the cybersecurity space.
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever‑increasing contributions to customer success while actively participating in the Solutions Consultant community and industry events.
• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap.

• 6+ years experience in pre‑sales/sales engineering.
• Skilled in at least one of the following:
  Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.
• Experience 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 pre‑sales experience is ideal.
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements.
• Experience selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following:
  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 with complex sales involving long sales processes, multiple buying centers, and multi‑product solutions is preferred.
• This is a field sales position where travel may be required to support in‑person customer meetings. Please discuss specifics with the recruiter.
• Proficient in English.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting…