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Who do we work with?
  • Field sellers
  • Pre-sales/ sales engineers
  • Sales leadership
What does it cost?

It costs nothing to join our network! We charge employers when they hire people through Crux

What is your matching process?

We allow everyone in our network to build a profile on Crux for free. This includes the opportunity to take various assessments proactively, and build in depth profiles on experience and career aspirations. When candidates are a strong fit for a role we are representing, we utilize in depth interviews and reference checks to round out perspective and match people with opportunities that are the right fit for them.

How much experience do I need to have in cybersecurity?

If you are looking to break into cybersecurity sales, you are welcome to join the platform and contribute to the community. However, we only place experienced sales talent with a track record in this industry

Recent Jobs

Managing Director Americas Head of Information Security
BNP Paribas
State
New Jersey
Remote Elig.
On-site
Seniority
Executive
Domain
Cross-domain/ leadership
Salary ($K)
290.00
-
Not disclosed
350
Chief Information Security Officer
Trupanion
State
Washington
Remote Elig.
Hybrid
Seniority
Executive
Domain
Cross-domain/ leadership
Salary ($K)
200.00
-
Not disclosed
250
Deputy CISO
New Relic
State
Oregon
Remote Elig.
Hybrid
Seniority
Executive
Domain
Cross-domain/ leadership
Salary ($K)
202.00
-
Not disclosed
252
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On-site
State
Connecticut
Remote Elig.
On-site
Not disclosed
Seniority
Experienced
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
198
-
273
Not disclosed
198

Job Description

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant for SOC Transformation you will be the expert for our Cortex portfolio, a Next-Gen AI-powered security operations platform. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. You evangelize our industry leading solutions in Security Intelligence and Automation, XDR, Attack Surface Management, SOAR and Incident Response that establish Palo Alto Networks as a customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

  • Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area
  • Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
  • As the main technical point of contact for Cortex, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
  • Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
  • Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities
  • Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area
  • Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
  • Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
  • Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions
  • Help our customers build and develop further their services around Cortex solutions
  • Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
  • Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
  • Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance
  • Implement organizational policies & help others adopt
  • Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in Security Operations or pre-sales/sales engineering within SIEM, SOAR, SOC, and/or XDR/EDR environments
  • Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
  • Solid understanding of Security Operations Center processes
  • Advanced knowledge of SIEM and/or SOAR solutions

Preferred Qualifications

  • IBM Qradar design, deployment, and/or pre-sales experience highly desirable
  • Scripting experience is a plus - Python preferred

The Team

Our Domain Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

Compensation Disclosure

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 base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $198,000/yr to $273,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email�9protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Hybrid
State
Texas
Remote Elig.
Hybrid
Not disclosed
Seniority
Experienced
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
98
-
159
Not disclosed
98

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

  • Ensure customers are maximizing their return on investment by owning the customer’s on-boarding, adoption, satisfaction and advocacy across a portfolio of customers
  • Provide high touch/white glove customer outreach immediately post close to shepherd customers through the on-boarding process
  • Drive adoption- ensure customer applies the offering hours in a timely manner
  • Ensure customer is measurably satisfied with the service they are receiving
  • Informing customers of refresh needs and options
  • Proactively identify up-sell and renewal opportunities and grow revenue
  • Facilitate portfolio renewals
  • Develop a trusted advisor relationship with customer stakeholders, executive sponsors and partners to drive cybersecurity solution adoption to ensure they are leveraging the solution to achieve full business value
  • Be the first line of defense in solving customer support requests, and coordinating and prioritizing timely resolutions with consulting teams and become a Subject Matter expert over time
  • Ensure continual communication with customers on Unit 42 messaging, current and offerings updates, events, main points of contact within Unit 42, and touchpoint for all feedback from our customer
  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of typical business challenges faced by customers and common objectives to appropriately map services and associated business benefits to address their needs
  • Serve as a customer advocate in influencing service and product roadmap and improvements
  • Partner closely with sales and consulting teams to develop and apply these processes - Must be able to build trust and influence
  • Manage performance metrics CSAT, Renewal rate, Upsell / Cross-sell lead identification, Reference-ability, Renewal likelihood, Adoption, Consumption, Customer Engagement
  • Capture and nurture CISO and execute relationships to influence the recurring strategic spend

Required Qualifications

  • Experience building out new programs and initiatives within an ever evolving organization
  • Strong consulting and project management skills, with proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers, including the ability to interact with client teams at various levels of technical and non-technical depth
  • Proven track record of managing customer escalations, balancing customer expectations, and negotiating successful resolutions
  • Highly data-driven with a commitment to following process
  • Excited about driving and tracking a consistent engagement process with all customers in your portfolio
  • Team player with the highest level of integrity, who will innovate to continue improving the way we serve our customers
  • Desire to partner and work cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, and Consulting teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience with a Cybersecurity or enterprise software company highly desired
  • Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
  • Knowledge of the latest customer success techniques and technologies.
  • Willingness to work nights and weekends as needed
  • Tableau a plus
  • Flexibility for travel

Additional Information

The Team

Our Customer Success team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission.

Compensation Disclosure

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 base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $98,000 - $158,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [HR email].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Hybrid
State
California
Remote Elig.
Hybrid
Not disclosed
Seniority
Experienced
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
158
-
255
Not disclosed
158

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

  • Increase number of engagements referred to Unit 42 from insurance carriers and expand presence
  • Establish new and deepen existing relationships with key stakeholders at insurance carriers
  • Develop and curate thought leadership relevant to this market to further establish Unit 42 as a market leader
  • Perform Quarterly Business Reviews and/or cyber threat landscape briefings with partner carriers
  • Partner with Unit 42 Consulting and Palo Alto Networks go-to-market teams to develop and leverage resources to engage and activate new and existing partners
  • Develop tailored value propositions and per-partner agreements to support increased activation and demand

Your Experience

  • Substantial professional experience in cybersecurity advisory and consultative sales
  • Experience working with insurance carriers, law firms, and in-house counsel supporting incident response, risk management and digital forensic services engagements.
  • Understanding and experience working with insurance claims management and panel placements
  • Established industry relationships with key decision-makers across all levels of partner and prospect insurance carriers
  • Experience in working collaboratively to represent a portfolio of services to stakeholders within an insurance firm and their clients
  • Understanding of cybersecurity regulations and the important role lawyers and insurance carriers play in incident response
  • Highly effective relationship/partner development skills
  • Demonstrated success in developing and implementing go-to-market strategies, processes, and performance metrics
  • Proven analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of go-to-market programs and strategies, and the ability to pivot, or double-down to drive greater levels of success
  • Ability to travel up to 30%

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, and risk management to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients’ security posture.

Compensation Disclosure

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 base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $158000/yr - $255000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected]

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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