Sr IT Program Manager - NPI

Company Description

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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

This position is responsible for managing technical projects for enterprise, partner, and customer facing services. A successful candidate for this role will have strong Program management and organization skills to complement their technical skills. You will work with technical engineers to lead complex Enterprise projects, with a focus on Enterprise. The role will engage with a wide range of Internal stakeholders to support our Enterprise initiatives, which require specific controls and guidelines to remain compliant. You will understand and document their needs and will play the role of Enterprise Program Manager to projects, manage the sprints and overall release of business capabilities to production.

Your Impact

• Build relationships with various Product Managers to understand their Product Roadmaps - Plan and execute on dependent work from our team
• Track developer progress, against user stories, develop burn down charts to assess sprint velocity and manage the overall release
• Oversee multiple software development projects on a variety of platforms that will require collaboration with the software engineering teams and business stakeholders
• Full project ownership, including the understanding of scope, planning resource needs with inputs from other stakeholders, and uncovering dependencies
• Facilitate and manage technical projects, develop and track project milestones
• Define and manage project schedules, dependencies, deliverables and responsibilities
• Manage product and project quality by being a gatekeeper for prioritization and addressing root causes
• Continuously identify and close process gaps to improve developer productivity
• Estimate work efforts and manage competing priorities
• Provide leadership to the cross-functional teams by helping define clear, realistic goals - clears barriers to team progress and manages the resolution/mitigation of project risks and issues
• Lead regular stakeholder reviews - communicate and present status and issues effectively to all levels of the organization, both verbally and in writing

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8 years of Technical Project Management experience for complex Enterprise projects
• Excellent knowledge of Agile SCRUM process with at least 8 years of experience as a Enterprise Program Manager and SCRUM master managing Enterprise project implementations
• Excellent Business Analyst skills, with demonstrated ability to effectively collect requirements, organize data and build processes to support Enterprise initiatives
• Knowledge of some of the business processes for quoting, sales, fulfillment or support would be a plus
• Owning and driving change management to build strong relationships and gain adoption
• Experience overseeing and developing large matrix project management resources and teams
• Proven expertise in Scrum, SDLC, change and project management methodologies, concepts, practices, procedures and standards
• Technical Program Management experience in an Agile environment
• Ability to take high level ambiguous information and turn it into solidified detailed plans that drive results
• Strong written and verbal communication, with ability to communicate to executives, managers and engineers
• Understand the challenges of working in distributed environment with multiple teams working on different problems
• Publish Metrics and reports to accurately track progress of projects
• PMP and SCRUM certification is strongly preferred
• Bachelor's degree in CS or MIS or equivalent military experience required
• Bay area candidates must be in office 3 days/ Week

Additional Information

The Team

You will be part of the Enterprise Strategy & PMO, a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects. This is a great opportunity to join the Enterprise PMO team in Enterprise Portfolio & PMO transformation journey to build a world class portfolio and program management practice. The successful candidate will provide hands-on leadership in executing the Portfolio & PMO transformation roadmap.

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 $152,000 - $251,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that 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

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.

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

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