Technical Product Marketing Manager, Cortex Cloud

Job Description

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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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Technical Marketing Manager for our Cortex Cloud platform, you’ll be the hands-on technical expert who brings our Cloud Security products to life—transforming powerful capabilities into clear, compelling experiences for customers, partners, and internal teams. Whether you're building immersive demos, crafting technical content, or leading live workshops, you’ll serve as the essential link between product, marketing, and the field.

In this role, you’ll create and deliver high-impact outbound technical assets—including demo videos, technical blog posts, solution guides, and hands-on workshop content designed to educate, engage, and inspire. You’ll present at industry conferences, customer webinars, and internal events, translating product innovation into real-world use cases.

You’ll also partner closely with product management to identify technical gaps, evaluate competitors, and provide feedback that shapes the roadmap. Your work will empower field teams, influence buying decisions, and help customers realize the full value of our Cloud Security portfolio. This is a high-visibility, customer-facing role with direct impact on product adoption, market differentiation, and overall business success.

Your Impact

Create and execute a technical marketing plan for Cortex Cloud

Develop and deliver compelling technical demos, videos, and walkthroughs that showcase Cortex Cloud’s capabilities in real-world scenarios

Create hands-on content such as capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges, technical workshops, and lab exercises for customer events and field enablement.

Write deep-dive technical blog posts, tutorials, and how-to guides to explain features, use cases, and integrations.

Present product overviews, best practices, product demos, and threat research in virtual webinars and at in-person events, seminars, and executive briefings.

Serve as a technical SME for Cortex Cloud, working closely with product management to influence roadmap and feature prioritization.

Support pre-sales and customer success teams with technical enablement content and field-facing tools.

Collaborate with marketing to ensure technical accuracy across product messaging, campaigns, and field assets.

Qualifications

Your Experience

3+ years of experience in a technical marketing, product management, product marketing, or sales engineering role, ideally in cybersecurity

Strong understanding of cloud security, (e.g. CNAPP, CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, CDR, etc.) and application security.

Bachelor’s degree required, technical degree or equivalent education is desirable

Comfortable with creating and delivering presentations in a range of environments, from industry conferences to customer briefings

Experience building and delivering technical demos, videos, and workshops

Excellent technical writing skills—able to explain complex topics clearly and concisely to technical audiences

Confident speaker with experience presenting to both technical and business stakeholders

Strong understanding of the competitive landscape for CNAPP, CDR and application security solutions.

Demonstrates strong initiative, a results-oriented mindset, and ability to ramp up quickly.

Additional Information

The Team

Our Marketing team has an opportunity like no other industry : high impact work and the chance to change the future of digital security, globally. Your hands will be in industry-leading content created in the face of rapidly growing threats : cyberattacks. Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our industry, and helping our internal teams, customers, and partners address the ever-changing threats we all face on a day-to-day basis.

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 $131000 - $212500 / 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   accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.