Senior Program Manager - People Team

Job Description

As a People Team Project Manager, you will provide leadership for complex projects that impact all of Palo Alto Networks. It’s no small role – it requires critical attention to detail, complex systems strategy, and pulling large programs together with cross-functional teams. This rolewill deliver results, enabling teams to execute against a defined set of deliverables.

The ideal candidate will partner with Program Managers, COE’s and the business to shape and execute our key programs, thriving in a fast-paced, high growth environment within a highly collaborative and execution-oriented setup. At its core, you know that Project Management isn’t about tracking dates and timing, it’s about making things happen, the right way. It’s about being a strategic, helpful partner to accomplish shared goals.

• Provide strong project management capabilities, operate in a developing project management environment and work with cross-functional teams and partners to deliver effective business processes and deliver world-class employee experiences

• Lead key people projects, collaborate with program managers, People stakeholders to ensure alignment of programs goals to business objectives and our values, development of program work-plan with workstreams, owners, milestones, KPIs, key dependencies

• Development and definition of processes and systems requirements to deliver multi-year cross-functional strategic initiatives

• Build strategic partnerships with key internal stakeholders and external partners, vendors, consultants to deliver on program goals

• Use cross-functional knowledge and stakeholder perspectives and seek to understand issues, trends that may influence the business and the projects around them

• Bring a People consultative mindset and deliver programs for the function across a breath of capabilities (recruitment, compensation, benefits, systems, operations, programs/processes, and on-boarding/engagement)

• Partner with the broader set of People Business Partners to design and deliver programs that align to the business strategies and advance the people priorities

• Track the progress of our key milestones and plans, and help to develop executive proposals and analysis

• Assess the impact of our projects on the employee experience, and work with internal and external partners to identify ways to simplify and reduce friction in our platforms and communications

• Partner with systems and operations teams as needed to help drive implementations, track timelines, and ensure stakeholder & strategy alignment

• Work closely with the CPO to ensure all programs and projects are linked, time scale for maximum impact and that interdependencies are managed with care

Qualifications

• Experience developing a project management methodology in an environment that doesn’t have a lot of experience with formal Project Management

• Ability to work across multiple People (HR) functions (staffing, learning & development, operations, communications, etc.) and experience collaborating with all business functions (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Legal, etc.)

• Ability to effectively work in a matrixed environment, to bring structure and focus to the team while being agile in a time of constant change

• Demonstrated excellence in communicating and influencing executive leadership with succinct written presentation and thoughtful verbal communications.

• Comfort navigating a demanding, exciting and unpredictable environment

• Excellent judgment and critical thinking skills, with a solution orientation

• Experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams and influencing executives

• Exemplify strong initiative and showcase your ability to work independently with limited direction, but with access to coaching to help you succeed

• Bring excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to lead and track multiple complex projects at the same time

• Excellent judgment and critical thinking skills, and the ability to translate conceptual ideas to tangible results

• Strong negotiator and influencer of mindset and behavior without positional authority – inspires others to act

• No knowledge of people programs required you could just work in any function today

Additional Information

Our People team at Palo Alto Networks works throughout the organization to enableyou guessed it, people. We’re one team – driven to one mission statement. Each piece matters, and within the people team, you are focused on enabling our teams to resolve the world’s most challenging cybersecurity threats. You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects – centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world.

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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 [emailprotected]

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