District Sales Manager – SLED

Palo Alto Networks

. Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities .

Posted 4/3/2026full-timeRemote • Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities
Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings
Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure
Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities
Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team
In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems
Drive and oversee team selling opportunities
Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks
Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships
Successfully influences others through change management
Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry
Experience with channel and partner sales models
Proven leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment.
Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results
Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.
Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues
Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally; ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals.
You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SaaS-based architecturessales pipeline managementforecast accuracyrevenue generationchannel sales modelspartner sales modelstechnical knowledgechange managementclient escalation management

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentcommunicationinfluencingcollaborationrelationship developmentcoachingmentoringexecution focusentrepreneurial mindset