Principal Product Manager (IDIRA, Data & AI/ML Platform)

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

Your Career

As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape the future of identity security by leading data-intensive and AI-driven solutions across the organization. You will drive research and product initiatives to automate processes, address evolving threats, and protect critical digital assets.

Your Impact

• Identify Opportunities: Collect, prioritize, and communicate product requirements. Define product features, manage the product roadmap, and clearly articulate future releases and strategic direction.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with R&D, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Security Researchers, Legal, Sales, Professional Services, and Product Marketing to ensure alignment between product vision and execution.
• Customer Engagement: Drive product success by actively engaging with internal stakeholders and enterprise customers, communicating roadmap updates, gathering feedback, and ensuring high satisfaction.
• Research and Strategy: Conduct continuous product and market research to identify key opportunities, drive incremental improvements, and inform strategic product and business decisions.
• Lead Data-Intensive Platform Initiatives: Drive end-to-end ownership of data-driven solutions that enable multiple products, leveraging advanced AI/ML capabilities to deliver impactful cybersecurity outcomes.
• Stay Ahead of Industry Trends: Continuously evaluate emerging AI/ML and Data trends and technologies, ensuring the product evolves to meet both current and future customer needs.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years in product management
• Experience with leading Data products or AI/ML solutions, working with complex data & analytics solutions. A must.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional collaboration in large global organizations
• Strong technical background, with the ability to understand complex systems
• Strong understanding of how product’s use cases affect data modeling, infrastructure, and analytics and the ability to prioritize product features based on business objectives and ROI.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills (mainly in English)
• Strong analytical skills to drive data-informed decisions
• Fast learner, adaptable to dynamic environments
• Strong problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in information security – an advantage
• BSc in computer-science/engineering, or 3-5 years hands-on experience in software development – an advantage

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.