Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

Product Designer

• Drive the design vision: Lead and execute the design strategy for major product initiatives, setting a new standard for design and user experience at Cortex. You are relentless about crafting a delightful, industry-leading experience.
• Elevate product quality and UX flow: Proactively identify and resolve complex user experience issues, focusing on streamlining core workflows and improving overall product usability and polish.
• Design system ownership (Figma focus): Fully own the design system and component library within Figma, including specification, documentation, and governance, ensuring designers and engineers have scalable, reusable patterns. You’ll work closely with other designers consuming components and engineering teams implementing them.
• Strategic Prototyping and Testing: Design, plan, and execute high-fidelity prototypes and user testing to validate concepts and inform design direction across the product management and engineering teams.
• End-to-End Feature Delivery: Own the design process from concept development, through wireframing, high-fidelity mockups, and final handoff. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure features meet a high bar for user experience.
• Maintain exceptional craft: Maintain an unwavering attention to detail to ensure product consistency, completeness, and a professional, polished user experience.

Lead Product Designer

Backend Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
• Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones
• Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
• Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
• Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
• Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Product Manager

• Develop a deep understanding of our product (from features to functionality), team structure, and processes.
• Own key product initiatives and align with leadership on strategic priorities
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and gather customer feedback to influence future product decisions
• Build relationships with and collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and scope product features and enhancements
• Consistently educate and update teams on product progress and revisions to take them along with you
• Define and track key product metrics and use data-driven insights to drive product decisions and optimizations

Principal Product Manager

Performance Marketing

• Own Cortex's demand generation strategy end-to-end, from awareness through lead conversion
• Build and execute multi-channel campaigns across paid search, paid social (LinkedIn, Reddit), SEO/SEM, content syndication, webinars, and emerging channels
• Design and run rapid experiments to discover what channels, messages, and tactics drive the highest quality pipeline
• Partner with Product Marketing to translate product messaging into high-converting campaigns that resonate with engineering leaders
• Collaborate with Sales and GTM Ops to optimize lead scoring, routing, and handoff processes that maximize conversion rates
• Manage demand generation budget and prove ROI across all channels with clear attribution and performance metrics
• Build reporting frameworks to track key metrics: traffic, MQLs, SQLs, pipeline contribution, CAC, and conversion rates by channel
• Work with our content and design teams to develop assets that support demand generation programs
• Stay ahead of industry trends and competitive tactics in the developer tools space
• Scale the demand generation function as we grow, potentially building a team over time

Lead Product Designer

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Principal Product Manager

Director of Demand Generation