Senior People Business Partner - R&D

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

In this role you will be an integral part of the Network Security people tea team providing expertise in people and organizations to anticipate challenges, diagnose problems, prescribe actions  and lead programs that have a direct impact to the success of the organization.  In this unique role, you will work to ensure effective people strategies and plans across engineer and product organizations. 

We are seeking an individual that is passionate about enabling organizations to  more effectively achieve their business objectives and creating a workplace environment that’s a magnet for the industry’s best and brightest. You should be an innovative HR  professional who is energized by coaching employees and  leaders, and creating teams that work together and win together. You should be comfortable working with any level of employee or manager, understand business strategy, have a knack at  reading a situation, navigating sensitivities and finding creative solutions to people issues. 

Your Impact 

• Partner with our Senior Executives in NetSec to bring together and influence a leadership team to design people strategies and build programs that scale the organization, build high performing teams, and develop best in class leaders 
• Consult with leaders to execute on the people strategies and initiatives in the NetSec organization
• Partner should bring people team best practices and should have experience creating and execution from prior assignments 
• Leverage people analytics and people trained instincts to anticipate issues or opportunities and bring data driven insights with solutions that positively advance imperative business initiatives
• Protect our unique culture and ensure Palo Alto Networks continues to be one of the best places to work
• Team up with some of the Valley’s best functional HR leaders to design and deliver market competitive compensation and benefits practices, leading-edge leadership programs, and modern workforce technology systems
• Lead people practices that foster innovation and collaboration within one of  the world’s most advanced technology organizations working together to fight cyber attacks threatening our way of life in the digital age

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent or equivalent military experience required and 7+ years of progressive HR/People experience in a technology organization or technology related business, preferably with a multinational company
• Experience executing people team strategies by analyzing organizational needs and setting goals to make a positive impact on the business - ability to set priorities, stay focused, and manage time in a fast paced environment 
• Ability to establish strong relationships at all levels and across functions within the organization
• Track record of effectively coaching leaders and advising action in sensitive or ambiguous  situations, including employee relations, performance management, or organizational diagnostics
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to organize and analyze data and a love for driving people programs from data insights
• Effective listener and persuasive communicator able to influence actions and outcomes
• Strong track record o