Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Firewalls (Contract)

Role Description

This role is a contract assignment at Palo Alto Networks. Contractors will not be employed by Palo Alto Networks but through our trusted staffing partners.  

• Duration: 6 months
• Location: Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)

Your Career

As a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloud Firewalls, you will shape the go-to-market strategy for Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-native firewall services that secure traffic across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud. Our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls have led the industry for over 11 years. This role will be pivotal in defining how Cloud Firewalls and Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks’ AI Security Platform, together secure the next generation of cloud and AI applications and infrastructure.

You’ll work cross-functionally with Product Management, GTM, and Cloud Alliance teams to create narratives, content, and launches that connect innovation with customer outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Develop messaging and positioning that differentiate Cloud NGFW in multi-cloud and AI-driven environments.
• Translate complex cloud and AI security capabilities into clear, outcome-oriented narratives for CISOs, cloud architects, and platform teams.
• Creating impactful product marketing content, including datasheets, whitepapers, blogs, and presentations
• Define and execute launch and campaign strategies to elevate awareness across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent GTM execution, sales enablement, and content alignment.

Your Impact

• You will work closely with Product Management to build a shared market and product vision, value proposition, and messaging that resonates with our target buyer personas forming the foundation for all your product marketing activities
• You will act as the primary thought leader for the products you support externally, including speaking engagements and content development
• You will be able to simplify product capabilities into compelling messages and tools that resonate with customers
• You will play a crucial role in creating powerful product marketing content, including datasheets, whitepapers, blogs, and presentations
• You will educate and excite our Sales, GTM, and field marketing teams on our products' customer and business value

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience in product marketing, with demonstrated expertise in cloud or security, or AI-driven cybersecurity.
• Experience leading company and solution-wide product launches and releases – from crafting messaging, content, and initiatives to tracking progress and measuring results
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to simplify highly technical topics for executive and technical audiences.

Compensation

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location.  For candidates who receive an offer, this is the pay range that Magnit (the staffing agency) reasonably expects to pay for this position: $115/hour to $120/hour. Please note that the compensation information in this posting reflects the hourly wage only and does not include benefits.  Magnit offers Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K. Magnit is not able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa for this position.     

Information about Palo Alto Networks

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

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

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.