Intern - Content Marketing
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.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.
Your Career
As a Content Marketing Intern, you will have the opportunity to help define the network security market and work closely with key stakeholders across the company to fuel awareness and demand for Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall solutions.
You will assist in the editorial direction, production, execution, and measurement of content, working closely with our product marketing and demand generation teams. You will gain experience developing and testing content strategies, fine tune your editorial craftsmanship skills, and learn about the growing cybersecurity industry. You will work cross-functionally across a large marketing organization that includes product marketing, campaigns, field marketing, creative services, web/digital and marketing operations teams.
Our global internship program trains the next generation of cybersecurity talent across a range of specializations, from threat intelligence to information security, engineering, and marketing. Interns and recent graduates can learn about the network security industry from leading thinkers, grow their professional networks, and be part of a career-defining experience.
Our Summer Internship Program from May-August or June-September 2021 provides you with:
- 1:1 mentorship
- Meaningful, hands-on enterprise content marketing experience
- Fun and engaging events that inspire your intellectual curiosity
- The opportunity to expand your knowledge and work on challenging projects
- Connections to other recent grads, and employees across the company as well as our leaders
Your Impact
- Develop, implement, and track the performance of an editorial strategy and roadmap for security content
- Write, edit, produce, publish and promote industry-leading content
- Efficiently manage internal and external agencies, vendors, creative teams and copywriters
- Establish goals and clearly defined metrics of success to measure the quality of content, audience growth, engagement and content reach
- Work collaboratively with communications, security research teams, product marketing
- Own, maintain and enforce editorial guidelines
- Understand and grow our earned, paid, shared and owned security content strategy
- Stay up to date on security content landscape to make content strategy recommendations
Your Experience
- Experience in and passion for security and technical content
- Excellent editorial, communications and project management skills as well as exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of team members across different functions
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Driven, self-motivated, and always looking for ways to improve on our current marketing efforts
- Able to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Requirements – To apply, you must be pursuing a 4-year Undergraduate Degree with a GPA of 3.0 or above, a 2-year Master’s Degree or a Doctorate degree and returning to school in the fall. You must have the authorization to work within the United States. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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.