Senior Staff Product Owner

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

Job Summary

We are looking for a passionate, self-driven, energetic, and technical Senior Product Owner (PO) to join our R&D development team, with a focus on our SaaS platform group. In this role, you will bridge the gap between market requirements from Product Management and the technical solutions implemented in our products. You will translate product requirements into actionable tasks for the development team-considering non-functional requirements (NFRs), customer needs, service health, and more-while aiming to deliver best-of-breed products. Using comprehensive business and technical knowledge, you will own the developed solution and guide the entire development process, from planning through testing to successful release. You will work closely with Development Teams, Product Management, Professional Services, Technical Writers, and R&D management, serving as the central focal point for internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Analyze product business requirements and produce functional designs for CyberArk SaaS solutions, ensuring alignment with overall product capabilities.

Own the product backlog: Deconstruct large features into smaller, prioritized pieces that compose a releasable product, while continuously validating and reviewing backlog value for prioritization and completeness.

Review and refine business requirements, incorporating deep knowledge of the product, its customer use cases, SaaS architectures, and cloud environments to support continuous improvement.

Serve as the central focal point for all parties inside and outside R&D on how the product works, its capabilities, and the impact of changes; raise connections across R&D groups and other departments through sessions, demos, and collaborative reviews.

Utilize expertise in cloud environments and deployments to own the service technical roadmap, ensuring it supports CyberArk's broader SaaS business roadmap.

Lead large, high-visibility projects involving multiple development teams, explaining requirements, answering functional questions, and driving proactive collaboration.

Ensure, in partnership with line managers, that ongoing deliveries are presented on time and produce valuable content that meets customer needs.

Foster innovation by thinking out of the box to enhance product solutions and address complex challenges at the OS level.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Analytical mindset with the ability to manage details while maintaining a big-picture view; organized and formal in communication to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.

Proven technical skills and self-learning ability to deeply understand technologies, challenges, SaaS architectures, solutions, and functional/technical aspects of complex systems.

5-8 years of experience in the software industry, including 2+ years working with SaaS solutions or cloud environments.

2+ years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, or similar role, with experience creating, managing, and writing functional designs for large-scale solutions.

Excellent communication, presentation, planning, and visualization skills; diplomatic and pragmatic in working with diverse stakeholders to drive optimal results.

Proactive, highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic, goal-oriented approach, and a nature for learning and continuous improvement.

Innovator by nature, capable of out-of-the-box thinking to deliver cutting-edge products.

Proven Agile experience and management skills.

B.Tech/BE or BSc in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent with 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development.

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience in pre-sales or post-sales roles.

Experience in information security or privileged access management.

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.