Senior HR Transformation Manager

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

As a Senior Manager of HR Transformation, you will play a key role in shaping how our organization approaches HR to ensure we are well-positioned to deliver effectively as the company scales. You will lead and execute HR transformation projects that integrate digital solutions, process optimization, and automation. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, you will drive initiatives to improve our HR functions, enhancing both business performance and employee satisfaction. You will serve as a program and change management lead for these initiatives, ensuring plans are executed effectively and change is managed thoughtfully. With a strong focus on leveraging technology, you will contribute to defining the technology strategy and priorities for the People team, supporting the HR Technology Product Manager role. This high-visibility role requires strategic thinking, expertise in HR transformation, strong stakeholder relationships, and effective project delivery.

Your Impact

• Contribute to shaping the future of the People function at Palo Alto Networks, working alongside the People Leadership Team and partners in IT, Finance, and across the business
• Ensure the People team's work aligns with and drives business impact, maximizing value for the company and employees

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Change Management: Proven ability to motivate and enable systemic, lasting, and high-impact change
• Project Management: Skilled at translating strategic initiatives into tangible plans with clear owners, milestones, and success measures, keeping complex, interrelated initiatives on track
• Curiosity and Detail Orientation: Quickly learn new areas, gathering context to build well-orchestrated plans and enable decision-making, while knowing when to dive into details or move forward without perfect information
• Adaptability: Embrace structured project plans while being equally excited to adapt quickly based on lessons learned and business dynamics
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills to distill complex ideas into plain language that motivates action, adapting your style based on the audience
• Stakeholder Management: Work effectively with stakeholders at all levels, adapting your approach as needed, equally comfortable presenting to executives or working side-by-side with teams
• Builder Mindset: Comfortable prototyping new approaches and ways of working, taking the first step to start new or complex initiatives, and handing them off as needed
• Scalability: Understand when to be scrappy to get something done or started, and when to turn it into a scalable, repeatable approach that works across a large organization
• Outcome Orientation: Relentless focus on outcomes, setting clear goals, measuring progress, adapting as needed, and openly sharing successes and misses as opportunities to learn and drive progress
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