Palo Alto Senior Director Global Compensation 

United States, California 

822404167

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

Your Impact

• Bring expertise across compensation focus areas, including broad based compensation, annual incentive design, equity compensation and executive compensation.

• Innovate and respond quickly to changing business and market realities and demonstrate openness and flexibility to business needs and client requests

• Lead with internal and market insights to drive compensation solutions with business. This involves providing strong project leadership and a laser sharp focus on driving key outcomes

• Build, mentor and lead a world class team of compensation professionals.

• Design and lead all of our cyclical compensation programs ensuring that outcomes reinforce our pay for performance philosophy and are delivered in an objectively fair and consistent manner.

• Be a trusted advisor to business leaders and People Business Partners, on all aspects of compensation decision making.

• Manage all communications with the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, preparing materials and analysis, partnering with external independent consultants to deliver on Compensation Committee meetings, programs, and projects;

• Design Palo Alto Networks’ annual equity program including budget, guidelines and grant process.

Your Experience

• BS degree or equivalent practical experience, MS degree or MBA preferred

• 15+ years of progressive compensation experience in a technology organization

• Intellectual horsepower combined with the ability to listen, understand, analyze, synthesize and propose solutions

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with a strong executive presence

• Superior influencing, organizational and analytical capability to create and drive data-driven solutions

• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, hyper-growth environment as well as strong attention to detail and exceptional problem-solving skills

• A highly collaborative and team-oriented approach to leading and driving results

• Effective listener and persuasive communicator able to influence actions and outcome

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 $243,000 - $334,000/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.