Remote Strategic Execution & Alignment Leader

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 154,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a high-impact individual contributor to serve as a primary navigator and force-multiplier for our leadership team. This role reports directly to a Sr.

Director of NAM Technical Services, and functions as the central nervous system for their organization. This role serves as a strategic intermediary and integrator—ensuring that the right work is prioritized, properly resourced, executed to standard by the appropriate owners, and meets quality standards before

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in strategic leadership, enterprise program governance, or executive advisory roles within software or cybersecurity organizations.
• 5+ years of Customer Delivery & Process Integration experience.
• Proven success enabling and governing complex, cross-functional initiatives in post-sales or services environments.
• Deep familiarity with SaaS business models and cloud-native security platforms, familiarity in industry leading data platforms is required.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to interpret and challenge P&L, utilization, and margin data.

Responsibilities

• Vision-to-Action Orchestration - Translate high-level roadmaps from the Strategy Team into coordinated, cross-team execution plans, ensuring clarity of ownership, sequencing, dependencies, and success criteria—without directly executing the work.
• Strategic Prioritization & Governance - Partner closely with Strategy to facilitate prioritization decisions, arbitrate trade-offs, and ensure initiatives are appropriately sponsored, staffed, and tracked by accountable owners.
• AI Readiness & Methodology Enablement - Serve as the focal point for GTS-wide transformation from traditional service models to AI-augmented delivery methodologies by aligning stakeholders, validating readiness plans, and approving structural changes proposed by execution teams.
• Change Management Oversight - Develop and approve change narratives, transformation plans, and milestone plans while ensuring execution is carried out by the appropriate functional leaders.
• Operating Model Stewardship - Define, monitor, and report on internal operating models (e.g., COE, executive reporting, escalation frameworks, quarterly enablement programs, QBR, LRP), ensuring standards are followed and outcomes meet leadership expectations.
• Fiscal Alignment Interface - Act as the liaison between Finance, and Business Units ("Speedboats") to ensure fiscal plans, assumptions, and decisions are aligned—without directly managing budgets or transactions.
• Performance Visibility & Assurance - Ensure accurate, consistent global and theater-level reporting on utilization, bookings, revenue, margin, expenses, and headcount by validating inputs and approving outputs from functional owners.
• Resource Optimization Oversight - Coordinate with the Resource Management Office (RMO) and Enablement teams to ensure capabilities, skills, and project health decisions are made effectively, escalating risks and misalignment as needed.
• Reporting Modernization - Collaborate on specific initiatives to guide the evolution of performance reporting (predictive analytics, AI-driven forecasting), ensuring methodologies are sound and outputs are executive-ready.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive advisory

Program governance

Cross-functional collaboration

SaaS / cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Information Systems

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a high-impact individual contributor to serve as a primary navigator and force-multiplier for our leadership team. This role reports directly to a Sr.

Director of NAM Technical Services, and functions as the central nervous system for their organization. This role serves as a strategic intermediary and integrator—ensuring that the right work is prioritized, properly resourced, executed to standard by the appropriate owners, and meets quality standards before