People Analytics, Business Partner

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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 and our organisation as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving 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.

Job Description

Your Career

The People Analytics team partners with the business and people leadership to guide decisions that enhance the careers and lives of our people. In this journey we strive to deliver insights, connecting people, performance to business outcomes focusing on recruiting, employee engagement, organization health, and workforce planning. 

As a People Analytics Business Partner, you'll be a highly valued thought partner for stakeholders within the People organization and the business; an expert problem solver utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods to get things done. You will be detail-oriented, diligent, analytical and curious. You’ll be someone who wonders "What if?", then seeks out the solution. You’ll commit to helping implement and measure the effectiveness of the solutions in real time, iterating as needed.

You will play a pivotal role in guiding the organization to think through how to better attract, retain, develop and motivate talent as the organization continues to grow. Your knowledge of People data, along with deep business context, will enable you to shape and deliver deep insights guiding the People organization and Business Leaders to make thoughtful people decisions.

Your Impact

• Empower leaders with actionable insights to guide business decisions and elevate organizational performance
• Collaborate with cross functional teams within People organization to highlight workforce issues and leverage quantitative and qualitative data to provide recommendations
• Build robust analyses and dashboards to track the progress of functional people initiatives and identify opportunities for improvement
• Leverage data mining and machine learning techniques to build models, unify data sources and datasets from across the talent development lifecycle to test hypothesis, enhance our understanding of employee behaviors 
• Present to a wide range of audiences (technical and non-technical) predictive and prescriptive analyses, explaining the insights and the key business drivers and making recommendations with trade-offs & implications 

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Proven record (5+ years) of using exceptional People Analytics skills to consult to business leaders and influence organizational decisions that ensure teams execute at scale
• Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Social Science, I/O Psychology, Finance, Computer Science, or another field that uses quantitative analysis or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required 
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into actionable and meaningful insights, highlighting connections between strategy and outcomes
• 3+ years of experience using data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, QlikSense, or other BI tools)
• 3+ years of experience managing and analyzing structured and unstructured data 
• 2+ years of experience using data transformation/scripting tools (e.g. Alteryx, SQL, R, Python)
• Experience applying statistical methods (e.g., correlations, regressions, A/B testing, GLM, decision tree, random forest, etc)
• Experience with databases, such as Hive, SAP, Redshift, Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with HRIS (e.g. Workday), survey platforms (e.g. Qualtrics), a plus
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and thriving in a fast pace highly matrixed environment
• Excellent communications skills and solutions - capable of interacting at all levels of the business- client service-oriented with an emphasis on creativity and diligence
• Ability to work collaboratively - both interpersonally and by leveraging collaborative tools
• You enjoy shaping ideas and