Sr Supv, Identity Security Customer Success

Our Mission

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In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

The Customer Success (CS) Team Lead for the Central US region plays a critical role in delivering our next phase of growth for Idira, Palo Alto Networks' Identity Security Platform , across both external and internal customers.

Externally, you will work with a strategic portfolio of enterprise accounts, ensuring they adopt and realize recurring value from the full range of Idira solutions (spanning human, machine, and agentic identity security across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments). You will collaborate closely with CISOs, Directors/Managers of Security, Security Engineers, Security Architects, and Dev Ops teams to implement best-in-class Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance, and Secrets Management.

The end results are elevated customer satisfaction, measurable security maturity, increased retention, and the expansion of the Idira platform footprint.

As a regional change agent, you will bring best practices and technical innovation to both internal and external stakeholders. In this Team Lead role,
50% of your time will focus on direct strategic customer engagements , and 50% will be spent assisting the CS Manager, Central US to mentor team members and partner with the regional sales organization to scale a world-class Customer Success program.

• Onboarding & Training: Lead and coordinate onboarding programs, ongoing product knowledge enablement (covering all Idira capabilities ), and peer shadowing opportunities.

• Operational Mentorship: Serve as the initial point of contact for team questions, assist with account challenges, and provide direct feedback on customer communication and engagement best practices.

• Management Support: Partner with the CS Manager, Central US to fulfill supervisory tasks, streamline team workflows, and drive regional operational efficiency.

• Professional Development: Act as a dedicated mentor to help team members build core skills and advance their professional growth.

• Value Road mapping & Success Planning: Work with clients to establish outcome-based success plans, define critical goals, and execute multi-year identity security value roadmaps.

• Executive Alignment: Establish a regular cadence (Weekly, Monthly, QBRs) with client leaders to review executive dashboards, program status, and identity health metrics.

• Trusted Advisory: Position yourself as a strategic advisor, driving continued platform adoption and helping customers mature their zero-trust and privilege security frameworks.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the broader Palo Alto Networks Account Team (Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Training, and Enablement) to identify expansion opportunities across organizational functions.

• Voice of the Customer: Advocate internally for customer needs, relaying critical feature feedback and operational…