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Job Description:

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Finance, Economics or a closely related field plus three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

Three years of experience in each of the following:

• Experience in strategy consulting, banking, and or corporate strategy

• Experience in financial services technology and or e-commerce

• World class strategic and analytical thinking, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize multiple sources of information (quantitative and qualitative) to solve complex problems in a structured, data-driven way

• Experience in providing strategic advice to complex global organizations

Salary:$126,173.00-175,000.00per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As the, you will be the, including full-time employees and/or assigned personnel. You will be responsible for driving leadership over the professional services business and providing strategic and operational oversight to the Senior Managers and regional delivery leaders who report to this role. You will be instrumental in defining thenecessary to scale technical services delivery across key U.S. Federal, State, and Local accounts. This role is highly integrated with the Service Sales, Product Sales, and other Support teams, focusing on building strong, trusted customer relationships and ensuring successful outcomes.

Your Impact

• Set the strategic vision and direction for all post-sales technical service delivery in the US Public Sector, ensuring consistent and high-quality execution for Palo Alto Networks’ NetSec Products.

• Act as the single point of accountability for technical services, interfacing with GCS, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Partner teams to ensure alignment and delivery of business outcomes.

• Serve as the Executive Sponsor for strategic US Public Sector accounts, engaging with executive-level customer stakeholders (e.g., CIOs, CISOs) to provide value reviews and resolve high-stakes escalated issues.

• Build and develop a high-performing team of technical professionals through hiring the best talent in the industry, mentoring/coaching, and performance management in line with the defined capability requirements for the team.

• Drive and achieve the following business and operational objectives:

  • Maintain consistently high utilization of PS consultants through optimal planning and backlog management.

  • Design and maintain the best resource mix across FTEs and contractors, maximizing quality and agility.

  • Reduce Time to Value (TTV) by accelerating deployment and adoption timelines.

  • Contribute to Service Sales Growth by enabling scalable, value-driven technical offerings.

  • Achieve global target service margin ratios through delivery efficiency and cost control.

  • Build and sustain strong, strategic relationships with subcontractors and delivery partners.

  • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction (CSAT) through proactive support and continuous improvement.

• Drive continuous improvement across the delivery of Netsec Professional Services and Customer Success Engineering, through the use of Automation and AI to drive efficiency, quality, and scale.

• Standardize and continuously optimize the NetSec operating rhythm and delivery practices to improve service health.

• Represent US Public Sector region at a global level, sharing customer insights, local challenges, and opportunities for regional impact.

• A significant portion of your impact is external: collaborating with the sales leadership team, product, portfolio, and support teams, where you will act as the Professional Services liaison to enable client success. You will build strong customer relationships and be the point of contact for successfully handling customer escalations to maintain high customer satisfaction.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in technical services, professional services, customer success, support or related functions within a high-growth SaaS/cloud enterprise environment.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing regional teams, including direct and matrixed reporting lines.
• Demonstrated success in managing performance against KPIs related to deployment, adoption, margin, utilization, and CSAT.
• Strong foundational understanding of Internet security concepts and products, with a demonstrated knowledge of NGFW and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture and its components.
• Demonstrated experience running a profitable Professional Services or Customer Success business , including achieving revenue/margin targets, managing backlog, health and optimizing project closure rates.

• Skilled in key business systems, including:

  • Experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools (e.g., Clarizen, Certina, Kantata) for tracking metrics like utilization, time-off, and backlog.
  • Experience with Sales Management tools (e.g., Salesforce) for revenue forecasting and pipeline review.
  • Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Tableau) for reporting on key operational metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage critical customer escalations effectively and ensure prompt resolution for high-profile clients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical knowledge to non-technical individuals and leadership.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field (CS, IS, EE, CE, IT, etc.) or commensurate experience.
• US Government DoD Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP and/or PMP are highly desirable.
• Background in cybersecurity or enterprise IT preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25%+ domestically to customer sites and internal business meetings.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $230000 - $268000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

1. Strategic Partner to the CPO

• Partner with the CPO to develop, evolve, and operationalize the multi-year People Strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation objectives.

• Act as a connector and integrator across all People sub-functions, including Talent, Total Rewards, DEI, Learning, HR Tech, and Places, bringing cohesion and clarity to the collective strategy.

• Support the PLT in setting and prioritizing strategic initiatives that enable scale, impact, and transformation.

2. Strategic Planning & KPI Governance

• Lead the People Team’s strategic planning and goal-setting process, ensuring tight alignment with company-level OKRs.

• Develop and maintain a People Strategy Dashboard that tracks performance against key enterprise and People metrics, including leadership confidence, engagement, performance differentiation, and efficiency.

• Drive accountability by ensuring the PLT measures what matters, reports outcomes consistently, and uses data to guide decision-making.

3. Transformation Design & Strategic Governance

• Structure and frame People-related transformation initiatives

• Provide strategic scaffolding and governance models for initiatives led across the People function, ensuring alignment, sequencing, and clarity of ownership.

• Serve as the strategic interface between the People Team and Corp Strategy and or other Transformation Offices to ensure synchronization of priorities.

4. Executive and Board Communications

• Lead the creation of executive and Board-facing communications that articulate the People Strategy and progress against key priorities.

• Develop clear, data-driven narratives and materials for Board updates, executive off-sites, and quarterly business reviews, reflecting the strategic maturity of the People function.

• Translate analytics and insights into concise, compelling stories that demonstrate organizational impact, transformation outcomes, and future priorities.

5. Research, Benchmarking & Strategic Insight

• Conduct market and best-practice research across high-growth and technology peers to inform the evolution of Palo Alto Networks’ People Strategy.

• Act as the internal strategist who anticipates talent and organizational needs based on external trends and internal data.

Your Experience

• 8–12 years of experience in People Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Management Consulting, ideally within a high-growth or technology environment.

• Demonstrated success in strategy development, organizational design, and enterprise planning at scale.

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; able to integrate data, insight, and storytelling into actionable strategies.

• Exceptional communication and presentation capability, with experience preparing materials for senior executives and Boards of Directors.

• Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• High learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $218,600 - $299,925/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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

Strategic Initiatives and Process Engineering Managerrole reports to the head of CMDO Strategic Initiatives Executive and will be responsiblemanaging the assessment, development, execution, and oversight of process improvement and transformation initiatives to achieve CMDO short and long-term strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Solves complex problems and delivers on business initiatives and processes by applying subject matter expertise and technical knowledge of the business

• Performs analytics, assessments, and/or interpretation of data and/or information to identify business opportunities, derive insights, and measure outcomes

• Understands, builds, improves and/or executes business initiatives and/or processes, while partnering with stakeholders and partners

• Engages with key stakeholders, partners, and business leadership to deliver on business objectives

• Develops strategic and tactical plans to drive progress towards business goals and objectives

• Strong ability to communicate with executives, business leaders, and technical teams to ensure alignment and transparency across initiatives

Required Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of experience in Process Engineering, Business Analytics and Project Management & Support

• Transform complex information and data into clear, concise and visually engaging slides. Strong data visualization and design, and storytelling abilities.

• Engineers solutions to complex problems in support of performance plan objectives to resolve issues and risks, optimize efficiency, reduce variability, and improve controls, effectiveness, quality, and sustainability

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity. Ability to read and understand complex matters, anticipate risks and summarize key information.

• Ability to overcome obstacles and solve problems quickly and efficiently. Self-starter with excellent anticipation skills; problem solving; follow up

• Experience developing content that enables C-suite leadership alignment and decision making

• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally and feel comfortable delivering insights and recommendations to senior management

• Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines and quality standards

• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills

• Demonstrated dependability and sense of urgency. Comfortable working with people at all organizational levels

• Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a deadline driven environment

• Ability to navigate in a highly-matrixed environment

• Comfortable taking initiative and being resourceful/entrepreneurial

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing direct reports and cross-functional teams

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

• Familiarity with JIRA

Skills:

• Business Acumen

• Critical Thinking

• Result Orientation

• Analytical Thinking

• Collaboration

• Oral Communications

• Python

• PySpark