Palo Alto Senior Director Account Health Management EMEA 

United Kingdom, England, London 

913578585

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

Team Leadership & Development:

• Manage and mentor a team of Service Delivery Leaders and Customer Success Managers
• Foster team cohesiveness, focusing on employee morale and development initiatives to promote internal retention
• Set team goals aligned with overall organizational objectives, and provide regular performance feedback to direct reports
• Build a growth mindset-oriented culture that promotes diversity, continuous improvement, a sense of urgency, and customer outcomes
• Inspire and attract top talent to your team

Account Health Management & Customer Outcomes:

• Lead the Account Health Team to drive customer engagement and excellence for top-tier customers in the region
• Act as a single accountable post-sales leader for customer outcomes, partner execution, and day-to-day post-sales execution and operations in your geography
• Accountable for executive engagement, account health, and risk mitigation
• Oversee customer planning, deployment, account-level reviews, and escalations
• Maintain executive relationships and act as an escalation point to ensure stakeholder alignment and provide proactive, prescriptive advice for outstanding Customer Success
• Handle all escalations, executive engagement, and at-risk account interventions
• Drive success metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to effectively manage Customer Account Health Managers and their teams
• Track and report on customer success metrics, including net promoter score, customer satisfaction, service level agreements, and value realization

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Business Leadership:

• Lead the communication channel into the business, manage business change, and drive process improvements
• Partner with Sales teams to develop success plans, assess customer health, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure renewals
• Engage with Professional Services for implementations and extended expertise deployments
• Partner with Sales and Product field leaders to drive adoption and retention
• Engage and coordinate customer delivery across Palo Alto Networks teams, including Product Management, Engineering, and Support
• Build strong cross-functional interlocks and operating cadences with Sales, Product, and Technical Consulting teams in your area
• Ensure consistent application of global playbooks per product
• Provide field feedback and interlock with Product/Engineering
• Align with Support, which is globally owned but locally deployed

Your Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in a high-growth SaaS/Cloud Enterprise Organization or similar, including at least 5+ years in a leadership capacity
• Demonstrated experience leading global direct/indirect teams of 10+ in customer success, professional services, and/or support organizations
• Proven track record of managing quantified metrics and execution programs to deliver exceptional results and customer satisfaction
• Extensive customer-facing experience in senior roles, including the ability to effectively communicate and influence C-level executives and various levels of technical and non-technical depth within client teams
• Expertise in managing customer escalations, balancing customer expectations, and negotiating successful resolutions
• Experience leading teams to deliver large technology programs to strategic customers, with expertise in 2+ of the following areas: Network Security, Cloud Security, Product Development, Security Operations, or DevSecOps
• Proven ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed and fast-growing organization, building strong working relationships across multiple functions and mediating conflict
• A strategic mindset with P&L/Run the Business experience, capable of scaling operations, and strong operational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with a track record of driving transformational improvements
• Thought leadership and the ability to anticipate and quickly adapt to changing customer and company needs
• Proven ability to develop customer relationships, understand their businesses, and develop a shared vision for accelerating their business success
• STEM Bachelor’s Degree required or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred
• Client-focused program management expertise preferred
• Skilled in customer success software (e.g., Gainsight, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Clarizen, Jira) preferred
• Travel: Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and on-sites, with a potential for up to 30% travel
• Fluent English. Any additional European language will be a plus

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus on providing the best customer support in the industry.

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