Manager, Consulting Services

Manager, Consulting Services

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.

Your Career

As a Manager, Consulting Services, you will lead a distributed team of highly experienced customer-facing consultants and engineers to deliver trusted expertise and drive customer outcomes. You will be instrumental in guiding your team to deliver cutting-edge security solutions while ensuring exceptional service quality, all while aligning with our Professional Services organization's strategic business objectives. This pivotal role demands close collaboration with our sales teams and fostering trusted customer relationships that drive successful security outcomes. You'll also champion continuous service improvement and collaborate with peer services teams to significantly enhance our clients' cybersecurity posture.

This is a highly influential position that blends strategic thought leadership, creative problem-solving, and technical credibility to make a tangible difference.

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary liaison for Professional Services, ensuring service delivery exceeds customer expectations through proactive feedback management and corrective actions
• Champion a customer-first approach across Global Customer Services teams to improve engagement and satisfaction
• Ensure your team deeply understands customer technical needs and builds lasting, trusted relationships
• Partner with Sales to provide strategic input during customer negotiations and ensure smooth collaboration throughout the customer lifecycle
• Drive accurate resource planning and staffing to meet project milestones and quarterly business targets
• Participate in Quarterly Service Reviews (QSRs), sharing insights and gathering client feedback.
• Provide clear, timely updates on key activities, escalations, and issues to customers and internal teams
• Build strong partner relationships focused on aligned goals and shared customer success
• Oversee team utilization, revenue forecasting, and approvals for timesheets and expenses
• Contribute to the strategic alignment of Professional Services offerings
• Lead team operations including hiring, career development, mentorship, and training

Your Experience

The Team

Our Professional Services team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients post-sale. Our dedication to our customers doesn't stop once they sign it evolves. As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You'll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won't wait for them to be raised, you'll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

Our Commitment We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple : we can't 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.