Senior Product Manager, Branch NGFW – Layer 2 Switching

Location: Hybrid at the headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States; onsite 3 days per week and remote 2 days per week.

Salary: $153,000–$247,500 annual base salary.

Company

Palo Alto Networks describes its mission as protecting digital life through cybersecurity innovation, with a focus on collaboration, execution, integrity, inclusion, and AI-enabled product development.

What you will do

• Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, and requirements for Layer 2 switching capabilities across enterprise campus, edge, and data center environments.
• Own the switch lifecycle experience, including onboarding, provisioning, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, observability, management, and decommissioning.
• Define Zero-Touch Provisioning, cloud-managed enrollment, guided setup, and configuration workflows across CLI, APIs, and graphical interfaces.
• Drive product requirements for VLANs, 802.1Q trunking, STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP, LLDP, MAC learning, multicast snooping, QoS, and related switching functionality.
• Define operational dashboards covering network topology, link health, port utilization, VLAN state, MAC/ARP tables, and device health, while partnering on telemetry and management capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering, UX, technical marketing, sales engineering, customers, partners, and field teams to define requirements, launch products, measure KPIs, and improve networking workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in product management, technical product management, technical marketing, engineering leadership, or a related technical role.
• 3+ years of experience working with networking, switching infrastructure, network management, or related platform products.
• Strong working knowledge of Layer 2 networking fundamentals, including VLANs, 802.1Q trunking, STP variants, LACP, LLDP, MAC learning, and multicast behavior.
• Experience with enterprise switching architectures and network operations.
• Experience defining or managing infrastructure configuration through CLI, REST APIs, YANG-based APIs, or graphical management interfaces.
• Experience working with engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver complex networking or infrastructure products.
• Experience conducting customer discovery and translating customer pain points into prioritized product requirements and roadmap decisions.
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative data to inform product strategy and decisions, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills for communication with engineering, customers, sales, and executive stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-managed networking or switching platforms.
• Experience with Arista CloudVision, Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Meraki, Juniper Mist, or comparable enterprise networking solutions.
• Experience with EVPN/VxLAN or other data-center and overlay networking technologies.
• Familiarity with gNMI, OpenConfig, sFlow, or SNMP.
• Experience with network automation and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Experience designing or managing network topology, device health, port utilization, or operational observability experiences.
• Experience taking networking or infrastructure products from concept through launch and adoption.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers, partners, sales engineering, or technical support organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid headquarters arrangement with three onsite days and two remote days per week.
• Employee benefits are available, with compensation potentially including restricted stock units and a bonus.
• Work is centered on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and solving real-world cybersecurity problems.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
• The position does not offer immigration or work visa sponsorship.