Execution & Alignment Leader

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

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.

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a high-impact individual contributor to serve as a primary navigator and force-multiplier for our leadership team. This role reports directly to a Sr. Director of NAM Technical Services, and functions as the central nervous system for their organization. This role serves as a strategic intermediary and integrator—ensuring that the right work is prioritized, properly resourced, executed to standard by the appropriate owners, and meets quality standards before reaching leadership.

The role operates through influence, governance, and alignment across a highly matrixed global organization.

• Vision-to-Action Orchestration - Translate high-level roadmaps from the Strategy Team into coordinated, cross-team execution plans, ensuring clarity of ownership, sequencing, dependencies, and success criteria—without directly executing the work.
• Strategic Prioritization & Governance - Partner closely with Strategy to facilitate prioritization decisions, arbitrate trade-offs, and ensure initiatives are appropriately sponsored, staffed, and tracked by accountable owners.
• AI Readiness & Methodology Enablement - Serve as the focal point for GTS-wide transformation from traditional service models to AI-augmented delivery methodologies by aligning stakeholders, validating readiness plans, and approving structural changes proposed by execution teams.
• Change Management Oversight - Develop and approve change narratives, transformation plans, and milestone plans while ensuring execution is carried out by the appropriate functional leaders.
• Operating Model Stewardship - Define, monitor, and report on internal operating models (e.g., COE, executive reporting, escalation frameworks, quarterly enablement programs, Q , LRP), ensuring standards are followed and outcomes meet leadership expectations.

• Fiscal Alignment Interface - Act as the liaison between Finance, and Business Units ("Speedboats") to ensure fiscal plans, assumptions, and decisions are aligned—without directly managing budgets or transactions.
• Performance Visibility & Assurance - Ensure accurate, consistent global and theater-level reporting on utilization, bookings, revenue, margin, expenses, and headcount by validating inputs and approving outputs from functional owners.
• Resource Optimization Oversight - Coordinate with the Resource Management Office (RMO) and Enablement teams to ensure capabilities, skills, and…