Senior Hardware Product Manager – Enterprise Networking & Security Hardware (NetSec)

Santa Clara, California, United States of America Product Engineering Ref ID: JR-023858 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 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 Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Hardware Product Manager, to define and drive the evolution of our enterprise NGFW hardware portfolio. As a Hardware Product Manager within the Network Security (NetSec) organization at Palo Alto Networks, a core imperative of your role is to champion and guarantee platform excellence across our physical hardware portfolio. Your leadership will directly influence the ability of our largest global Enterprise customers to achieve their strategic technical and operational objectives through the deployment of our cutting-edge hardware. This role requires a high degree of readiness to jump into ambiguity, driving physical platforms across Security, Routing, Switching and SD-WAN appliances from early architecture to full commercial scale. You will pioneer new hardware operational models while maintaining rigorous Palo Alto Networks engineering oversight, spearheading cross-functional teams across Engineering, Technical Marketing (TME), Supply Chain, Operations/S&OP, Finance, IT, Customer Support, and GTM teams. You are the ultimate owner of the hardware experience, ensuring our platforms lead the industry in performance, reliability, COGS optimization, and ease of deployment. Your Impact Drive physical platform strategy across Switching, Routing, SD-WAN, and Security Appliances, defining hardware specifications, ASIC/FPGA/CPU requirement…

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