Senior Certification Manager

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch product managers to expand the team. As a certifications manager of global certifications at Palo Alto Networks, you will play an instrumental role in attaining many certifications across our product line. Certifications are of high value as they enable our products to be sold into many key markets around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all activities related to the product certifications, as well as individually contributing much of the content required to obtain these certifications. Key Responsibilities: Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Engineering and other stakeholders to develop certification strategies and execute in a timely manner, ensuring alignment of certification strategies and execution plans to business and product imperatives Own and drive all aspects of certification projects from start to finish with an eye for detail and accuracy Understand complex technical security architectures (including cloud architecture) and apply that to certification and compliance projects as needed Effectively communicate with all invested areas of the organization and management stakeholders, from engineering to sales Develop a solid technical understanding of the product line to speak fluently with consultants, certification agencies, and more to achieve certifications with a few additional resources as possible Perform basic product testing and certifications documentation development to ensure success during the certification process