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Palo Alto Networks

Firewall and cloud security provider

Enterprise Sales Enablement Lead

Full-Time
$151.7k - $245.3k/yr+ Restricted stock units + Bonus
Senior
Austin, TX, USA+2 moreMore locations: Santa Clara, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA
Remote
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Eight or more years of experience designing and delivering commercial sales capability programs focused on applied selling skills and measurable performance improvement.
  • Experience integrating generative artificial intelligence tools into sales workflows, learning programs, or coaching experiences to improve seller preparation, practice, productivity, and deal execution.
  • Prior experience as both a quota-carrying enterprise or commercial seller responsible for closing complex deals and a frontline sales leader accountable for revenue, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy.
  • Proven ability to facilitate high-stakes sessions for senior sales professionals and influence frontline sales directors and vice presidents.
  • Demonstrated success coaching sellers through live opportunities and translating field experience into practical, segment-specific learning spanning new business development representatives to customer expansion.
  • Deep working knowledge of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Value Selling, Challenger, or Command of the Message, with the ability to teach and apply them in real sales situations.
Responsibilities
  • Lead immersive, high-impact workshops, both virtual and in person, that coach sellers through live opportunities and strengthen value selling, executive engagement, discovery, negotiation, and MEDDPICC execution.
  • Integrate modern artificial intelligence tools and generative learning platforms into the curriculum to scale practice, streamline deal preparation, and drive measurable improvements in field efficiency and productivity for business development representative, commercial, and closing roles.
  • Design, build, and optimize specialized learning tracks and continuous professional development programs focused on complex deal strategy, advanced negotiation, competitive differentiation, renewal optimization, and buyer persona mastery for enterprise sales professionals.
  • Partner with sales leadership to align learning with go-to-market priorities and connect it directly to live opportunities, pipeline reviews, expansion targets, and forecast accuracy.
  • Measure business impact by evaluating behavioral change, tool adoption, opportunity quality, and sales performance outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with complex enterprise sales cycles in software as a service or cybersecurity.
  • Experience helping sales organizations navigate significant go-to-market transformations, including artificial intelligence adoption or platform-based selling.

About the company

Palo Alto Networks provides hardware, software, and subscription-based security solutions to protect organizations from cyber threats. Its products include network firewalls (Strata), cloud security (Prisma Cloud), and AI-powered security operations (Cortex), which work together to secure on-premises and cloud environments, manage identity and access, and detect threats. The company differentiates itself by offering an integrated, end-to-end security stack that combines hardware, software licenses, and ongoing services across enterprises, SMBs, and government clients. Its goal is to deliver comprehensive protection for networks, data, and applications as organizations move between data centers and cloud environments.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • September 2026: Fiscal 2026 revenue reached $11.48 billion, up 24% year over year.
  • September 2026: Prisma AIRS passed $100 million ARR within four quarters, PANW's fastest launch.
  • September 2026: NVIDIA and Semtech partnerships expand PANW into agent safety and industrial edge security.

What critics are saying

  • February 2026: CyberArk deal costs cut fiscal 2026 profit guidance and pressured margins.
  • June 2026: MeetingTV sued PANW over Koi's alleged AI-hallucinated threat report.
  • February 2026: PANW's securities-fraud case reached the Supreme Court, extending legal distraction.

What makes Palo Alto Networks unique

  • September 2026: PANW sells firewall, cloud, and SOC tools through one platformized stack.
  • September 2026: Prisma AIRS, XSIAM, and Idira cover AI governance, detection, and identity.
  • September 2026: CyberArk and Chronosphere acquisitions deepen identity and observability across customer workflows.

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 1st, 2026
Palo Alto Networks extends AI firewall into Nvidia's agent safety stack amid integration questions

Semtech Corporation has integrated its AirLink secure edge 5G/LTE routers with Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls and Zero Touch PKI to simplify secure connectivity across edge deployments. Separately, Palo Alto Networks launched Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, embedding advanced AI models into exposure management services. The company is also extending its AI firewall and agent identity tools into Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform. Prisma AIRS' AI Runtime firewall will run on BlueField chips, with identity controls integrated into Nvidia's OpenShell. Palo Alto Networks' investment case centres on whether AI-focused offerings like Prisma AIRS and XSIAM can sustain annual recurring revenue growth. The company projects $18.5 billion revenue and $2.6 billion earnings by 2029, requiring 17.3% yearly revenue growth.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 23rd, 2026
Palo Alto Networks launches AI-powered penetration testing subscription, shares rise 3.5%

Palo Alto Networks launched a worldwide annual subscription for continuous AI-powered security testing through its Unit 42 division. Shares rose 3.45% to $387.485 on Wednesday morning. The service uses AI models from Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5, OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber, and open-weight models to test applications, APIs, cloud systems, code, and networks. It identifies weaknesses, assesses exploitation risk, and recommends fixes and virtual patches. The shares trade 66.17% above the $233.18 GF Value shown for 23 September. Annual contracts could stabilise Unit 42's revenue, though AI model usage and specialist work carry costs. Renewals, customer results, and margins will determine whether the launch justifies the current valuation.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 23rd, 2026
Palo Alto Networks launches AI-powered continuous security testing service

Palo Alto Networks has launched Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a cybersecurity service that uses AI to identify vulnerabilities and provide remediation guidance through continuous testing. The service integrates Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber models through a proprietary multi-model system. It provides continuous vulnerability testing across web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, source code repositories and network assets. The company invested $17 million in research and development over six months of internal testing and more than 100 customer engagements. During internal deployment, the system identified a year's worth of security exposures within three weeks. In customer assessments, exposures were identified in all cases, with 37% classified as high or critical severity. More than two-thirds of exposures discovered in third-party applications had no known CVE designation. The service is available worldwide through annual subscriptions with pricing varying by AI model selected.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 23rd, 2026
Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS hits $100M ARR in four quarters, fastest product launch in company history

Palo Alto Networks' AI security platform, Prisma AIRS, has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. The milestone was reached within four quarters of general availability, making it the fastest-scaling product in the company's history. Prisma AIRS now serves over 800 customers and was included in most of the company's largest fourth-quarter transactions. The platform secures different stages of enterprise AI use, covering machine identities, AI agent monitoring, and real-time security controls. In the fourth quarter, Palo Alto Networks closed a $53 million platformisation deal with a global payments platform, which included a high-seven-figure commitment to Prisma AIRS. For fiscal 2027, the company expects Network & AI Security revenues to grow at a low-double-digit rate.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 14th, 2026
Palo Alto Networks reports 34.4% revenue growth to $3.41B, leads cybersecurity peers in Q2

Palo Alto Networks reported Q2 revenues of $3.41 billion, up 34.4% year on year, exceeding analyst expectations by 1.7%. The cybersecurity company's EPS guidance for next quarter and full-year both beat analyst expectations. Despite posting strong results, the stock has declined 8.7% since reporting and currently trades at $330.65. Analysts suggest investor expectations may have been higher than Wall Street's published projections. Among the nine cybersecurity stocks tracked, Palo Alto Networks achieved the highest guidance raise, fastest revenue growth, and highest full-year guidance raise. As a group, the sector's Q2 revenues beat consensus estimates by 1.7%, though cybersecurity stocks have collectively declined an average of 1.7% since earnings results.