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 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

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced Manager, Focused Services. The role is responsible for leading our Customer Success Managers (CSM), ensuring they have the support and tools to perform their job tasks at a high level, and helping each CSM to grow within the role. They will assist as an issue escalation point for the CSMs, act as a communication channel into the business, and manage business change.

Your Impact

• Interview, hire, train and mentor a team of technical account managers

• Maintain strong sense of cohesiveness within your team, focusing on employee morale and employee development initiatives for internal retention

• Set team goals in-line with overall organizational goals. Also set specific goals for direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance

• Provide leadership, guidance and support for account related issues

• Provide effective advice and counsel on strategic communications issues and exercise effective judgment

• Improve processes for efficiency, organization, and customer satisfaction purposes

• Collaborate closely with various internal partners (including engineering, account management, product management, IT, and manufacturing) to resolve issues and grow the business

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BA/BS in computer science or equivalent (MBA a plus)

• 10+ years experience in client facing technical support and/or professional services within the high tech industry preferred

• 2-5 years of people management experience

• Superior project management skills

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage escalations of complex problems, prioritize a demanding workload, delegate appropriately, and deliver results under pressure

• Proven leadership skills including: effective oral and written communication, performance management, issue/conflict resolution, negotiation, motivating others, forecasting and planning

• Willingness and ability to travel (occasionally at short notice)

Specialized Knowledge and Skills (Preferred):

• Technical experience in the Network Security Industry

• Experience as a network administrator (or equivalent) in an NT or Unix environment

• Knowledge of Network Security (Routers, Switches, firewalls, VPN routers - Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet, Cisco)

• Background in networking, LAN, and WAN technologies

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Additional Information

The Team

Our Customer Success team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. 

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus on providing the best customer support in the industry. 
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We’re a fast-growing, immensely successful organization because of our people and products (built and supported by our people). We work the frontlines against cyberthreats and attacks, protecting everyday transactions in the digital environment. It means we’re good at scaling quickly to new threats, get fulfillment from resolving new problems, and think about things just plain differently.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work 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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer, the starting salary (includes on-target earnings = base + on target incentives for sales roles) is expected to be between $112,400/yr to $165,300/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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