Director Of Technical Marketing Engineer

** Our Mission*
* At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

** Who We Are*
* In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

** Job Summary*
* ** The Team*
* Engineering - Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions.

We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

** Job Summary*
* As a Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our employees. You will work with cutting-edge technology, redefining the future of network security. You will perform competitive analysis, perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.

This person will be a Cloud / Multi-Cloud Security SME who can bridge deep technical expertise with strong storytelling. The ideal candidate should be comfortable building labs in the cloud/Hyperscaler environments, able to think out of the box to build strong customer demos for multiple use cases, deploying firewall and security architectures, troubleshooting complex networking issues, owning the product betas  and enabling field teams.

This role requires a strong foundation in firewall architectures in the cloud,  cloud networking, routing fabric, automation, and technical communication.

This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact.

** Key Responsibilities*
* + Develop, constantly refine, and execute the technical marketing plan

+ Be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of effective technical tools, whitepapers, demos, videos and technical training for sales, customers, and partners.

+ Lead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releases.

+ Lead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales, customers, and partners

+ Be a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks, speaking at seminars, conferences, customer briefings, and with other groups within the company

+ Work with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge them.

+ Be the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questions

+ Identify 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…