Director, People Strategy

Your Career

As the Director People Strategy you will serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the Chief People Officer and the People Leadership Team (PLT).

This role is at the center of how our People organization plans measures and communicates its impact. Youll architect the frameworks that translate our People vision into actionable strategies clear metrics and compelling Board-level narratives.

Your Impact

1. Strategic Partner to the CPO

Partner with the CPO to develop evolve and operationalize the multi-year People Strategy ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation objectives.

Act as a connector and integrator across all People sub-functions including Talent Total Rewards DEI Learning HR Tech and Places  bringing cohesion and clarity to the collective strategy.

Support the PLT in setting and prioritizing strategic initiatives that enable scale impact and transformation.

2. Strategic Planning & KPI Governance

Lead the People Teams strategic planning and goal-setting process ensuring tight alignment with company-level OKRs.

Develop and maintain a People Strategy Dashboard that tracks performance against key enterprise and People metrics including leadership confidence engagement performance differentiation and efficiency.

Drive accountability by ensuring the PLT measures what matters reports outcomes consistently and uses data to guide decision-making.

3. Transformation Design & Strategic Governance

Structure and frame People-related transformation initiatives

Provide strategic scaffolding and governance models for initiatives led across the People function ensuring alignment sequencing and clarity of ownership.

Serve as the strategic interface between the People Team and Corp Strategy and or other Transformation Offices to ensure synchronization of priorities.

4. Executive and Board Communications

Lead the creation of executive and Board-facing communications that articulate the People Strategy and progress against key priorities.

Develop clear data-driven narratives and materials for Board updates executive off-sites and quarterly business reviews reflecting the strategic maturity of the People function.

Translate analytics and insights into concise compelling stories that demonstrate organizational impact transformation outcomes and future priorities.

5. Research Benchmarking & Strategic Insight

Conduct market and best-practice research across high-growth and technology peers to inform the evolution of Palo Alto Networks People Strategy.

Act as the internal strategist who anticipates talent and organizational needs based on external trends and internal data.

Qualifications : Your Experience

812 years of experience in People Strategy Corporate Strategy or Management Consulting ideally within a high-growth or technology environment.

Demonstrated success in strategy development organizational design and enterprise planning at scale.

Strong analytical and conceptual skills; able to integrate data insight and storytelling into actionable strategies.

Exceptional communication and presentation capability with experience preparing materials for senior executives and Boards of Directors.

Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional senior stakeholders without direct authority.

High learning agility intellectual curiosity and comfort operating in fast-moving high-ambiguity environments.

Additional Information :

The Team

The People Team at Palo Alto Networks enables the company to transform scale and perform. We connect purpose performance and productivity through strategic insight and disciplined design.

Youll join a team that acts as the strategic architect of the companys future translating people insights into business outcomes and ensuring every transformation starts with talent culture and leadership.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales / commissioned roles) is expected to be between $218600 - $299925 / YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple : we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating 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   .

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No.  Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Business Development,Marketing,Pricing,Analysis Skills,Research Experience,Project Management,Research & Development,Strategic Planning,Financial Modeling,Leadership Experience,Management Consulting,Analytics

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1