Senior Manager, India Product Marketing and Communication

Company Description

Our Mission

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

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

We’re looking for a senior communicator to lead product executive, internal, and site communications supporting our India site leadership and strategy. This self-driven communications lead will act as the principal communications advisor to the executive leadership team in India, and partner closely with HR people partners, regional communications and recruiting teams.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for executive communications for the Product SVP and General Manager of our India offices, internal communications for a large R&D organization, and external engagements with community partners including universities and local trade associations. This includes creating internal and external communications strategies, internal employee engagement program plans, and supporting external partner outreach for a variety of mediums. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently, thrive in ambiguity, support an organization that is constantly innovating, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders. 

You are passionate about technology and innovation and the people behind them. You enjoy turning complex and technical products and features into compelling (and understandable!) stories to engage a variety of audiences, both internally and externally. You are excited about managing projects that help connect employees, customers and the larger community to exciting cybersecurity innovations and engineering excellence being led by our teams in India. As part of the Global Communications team, you’ll be a key point of contact for our India site, ensuring the right narratives are told across multiple channels. 

Your Impact

• Serve as the principal communications advisor to the SVP, Product and General Manager of our country presence in India
• Establish and execute executive and internal communications plans and narratives that engage multiple audiences (employees, customers, partners and beyond), and connect them to the company strategy and product vision
• Ensure organizational initiatives, changes and projects are successfully communicated to employees and stakeholders - Ensure messages are consistent across all media and departments of the organization
• Plan, edit, and develop content for a variety of channels and audiences -Internal events, the intranet, Slack, newsletters 
• Externally-facing blogs, customer presentations, keynotes, social media posts Partner-facing emails, newsletters, events
• Plan and execute on internal and external engagement programs that highlight our country-level innovations and engineering excellence, establish our company as a great place to work, and showcase our investment in the community through partnerships with trade organizations and universities
• Manage executive’s external presence, in conjunction with the JAPAC PR and social teams, including social media strategy and media and analyst engagements
• Establish ongoing metrics - measure everything to ensure success, and pivot early and often 
• Collaboration with cross functional teams across our India sites as well as communications counterparts in APAC and the US - Develop tools, templates and best practices to scale communications efforts across India sites

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8 plus years communications experience, in cybersecurity preferred - internal and executive communications background is essential - project management experience is a plus
• Highly organized and self-motivated individual who will oversee timely, first-rate execution
• Excellent english written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey business strategies and complex technologies to audiences in compelling ways; Kannada language understanding a plus 
• Strong team player and creative thinker 
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior leaders
• Ability to work under pressure to adhere to tight, last-minute deadlines
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity 

Additional Information

The Team

We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo. Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our pioneering Security Operating Platform emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Our Security Operating Platform is built for automation. It is easy to operate, with capabilities that work together, so customers can prevent successful cyberattacks. They can use analytics to automate routine tasks so they can focus on what matters. We are known for continuously delivering innovations.

Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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