Palo Alto Senior HR Transformation Manager 

United States, California 

271079189

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Your Career

As a Senior Manager of HR Transformation, you will play a key role in shaping how our organization approaches HR to ensure we are well-positioned to deliver effectively as the company scales. You will lead and execute HR transformation projects that integrate digital solutions, process optimization, and automation. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, you will drive initiatives to improve our HR functions, enhancing both business performance and employee satisfaction. You will serve as a program and change management lead for these initiatives, ensuring plans are executed effectively and change is managed thoughtfully. With a strong focus on leveraging technology, you will contribute to defining the technology strategy and priorities for the People team, supporting the HR Technology Product Manager role. This high-visibility role requires strategic thinking, expertise in HR transformation, strong stakeholder relationships, and effective project delivery.

Your Impact

• Contribute to shaping the future of the People function at Palo Alto Networks, working alongside the People Leadership Team and partners in IT, Finance, and across the business
• Ensure the People team's work aligns with and drives business impact, maximizing value for the company and employees

Your Experience

• Change Management: Proven ability to motivate and enable systemic, lasting, and high-impact change
• Project Management: Skilled at translating strategic initiatives into tangible plans with clear owners, milestones, and success measures, keeping complex, interrelated initiatives on track
• Curiosity and Detail Orientation: Quickly learn new areas, gathering context to build well-orchestrated plans and enable decision-making, while knowing when to dive into details or move forward without perfect information
• Adaptability: Embrace structured project plans while being equally excited to adapt quickly based on lessons learned and business dynamics
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills to distill complex ideas into plain language that motivates action, adapting your style based on the audience
• Stakeholder Management: Work effectively with stakeholders at all levels, adapting your approach as needed, equally comfortable presenting to executives or working side-by-side with teams
• Builder Mindset: Comfortable prototyping new approaches and ways of working, taking the first step to start new or complex initiatives, and handing them off as needed
• Scalability: Understand when to be scrappy to get something done or started, and when to turn it into a scalable, repeatable approach that works across a large organization
• Outcome Orientation: Relentless focus on outcomes, setting clear goals, measuring progress, adapting as needed, and openly sharing successes and misses as opportunities to learn and drive progress
• Generalist Perspective: Understand how components fit together, with enough knowledge of the core business and People function areas to orchestrate initiatives across teams

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 $148,000 - $235,500/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.