Senior People Business Partner - G & A

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 wellbeing 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

In this role you will be an integral part of the 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 IT, Finance, Operations and Legal. 

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 leaders to bring together and influence a single leadership team to design people strategies and build programs that scale the organization, build high performing teams, and develop best in class leaders 
• Partner with a team of People Business Partners who partner with leaders to execute on the people strategies and initiatives of the product and other cross functional areas
• Leverage people analytics and trained instincts to anticipate issues or  opportunities and bring data driven solutions that move the needle
• 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 comp 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 to life in the digital age

Qualifications

Your Experience

• A Bachelors’ degree or equivalent or equivalent military experience required and 5+ years of progressive HR/People  experience in a technology organization technology related businesses, preferably with 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 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 of bringing a one team, diversity valued and fun required attitude to a thriving people team

Additional Information

The Team

Our People team works throughout the organization to enable ... you guessed it: people. We’re