Continuous Learning Program Lead

Company Description

*** NOTE: This is an office-based role which can be located in either Santa Clara, CA (Headquarters) or Plano, TX. ***

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.

Job Description

Your Career

As the Continuous Learning Program Lead you will help drive our high-performance culture by creating and maintaining a highly produced, continuous, scalable and innovative enablement program, as part of the Global Enablement Catalog. You will act as the “executive producer” of your program and collaborate with cross functional teams, stakeholders and SMEs to internally market, communicate, deliver and measure effectiveness of your program. You will also be responsible for helping to support various enablement activities including facilitating live or virtual instructor led sessions and supporting other special projects as assigned. If you love to command a room of sales professionals, this role offers the opportunity to rethink and reinvent traditional enablement, and help develop our global sellers and leaders.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact 

• Design and drive continuous global enablement programs, leading a cross functional team from design and delivery to consumption and measurement
• Develop and facilitate engaging content in a wide variety of modalities from in person and virtual based sessions to support global enablement programs and the global sales team
• Partner with instructional design team to develop training and change management materials for newly delivered applications and or capabilities
• Develop assessments to measure the effectiveness of the curriculum and learner performance, integrate results into new and existing course curriculum
• Take active role in building and creating physical or digital content including but not limited to assessments, training materials, presentations, participant guides, role play scenarios and manager coaching guides
• Incorporate diverse array of concepts, methodologies, gamification strategies, learning tools & practices adhering to adult learning principles & practices
• Leverage evaluation tools & data to assess the effectiveness of training programs and develop and develop new approaches for improving content and design
• Ongoing support of sales new hire onboarding program, including creation of a self-driven training curriculum along with continuing education needs by role
• Provide 1:1 coaching and development to Sales Reps and Sales Leaders where needed

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of relevant professional experience in sales, enablement, adult education or training for B2B software sales, and/ or 10+ years of sales facilitation experience
• Video Production / graphic design experience a plus 
• Experience with Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite / Cloud (Photoshop, Premiere Pro)
• BA/BS degree or equivalent educational background preferred or equivalent military experience required

Additional traits and capabilities that we value in this role include

• Demonstrated ability to engage and educate an audience through various modalities
• A proven ability in the design, development and delivery of impactful enablement programs
• Forward thinking, high energy, positive, self motivated and able to relate will with global and diverse pop