Principal Technical Program Manager (NGFW)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your well-being support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principal Technical Program Manager to join our exciting, fast growing company. This dynamic individual will be the liaison between Software Engineering and Product Management with a focus on high quality, on-time successful releases. This position reports to the VP Operations and is based at our headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

Your Impact

• Drive and manage the development of AI/ML systems and subsystems from concept to launch
• Provide program management leadership for cloud management services and products
• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of large cross-functional initiatives
• Drive overall alignment of one source of truth for project status through dashboard improvements
• Be the expert on release life cycle processes and champion process best practices, metrics and high quality standards with your delivery team
• Work with Product and Engineering stakeholders to identify & manage program/project dependencies & come up with an execution plan
• Provide clear, concise, transparent, and insightful status reporting to the team, executives, and a diverse set of stakeholders
• Lead efforts to resolve key project dependencies and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning
• Understand the systems in their program space, the limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural decisions

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Career level years relevant experience in managing cloud software applications, products and services
• Experience AI, ML, Co- Pilot Program Management
• Knowledge and working experience on Enterprise Agile processes and tools (such as Jira Portfolio or Jira Structure)
• Experienced in driving large cross-functional programs
• Ability to resolve conflicts and drive issues to resolution and escalate when necessary
• Understands and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty
• An expert in communicating and collaborating with cross-functional team members to achieve goals - contributes positively to the team and organization
• Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Proficient with applications, tools, and methodologies used to organize, manage, report progress, and deliver programs and projects
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• A proven track record of being highly productive
• Ability to successfully work across multiple levels of an organization
• Highly organized, detail oriented and able to manage multiple priorities concurrently

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empo