Senior Project Manager Professional Services

Your Career

The Professional Services Senior Project Manager will lead large services projects as part of the delivery cycle  including handling all deployment resources and ensuring all deliverables are met and delivered on time and under budget. The Project Manager will drive customer deployment projects including program and process initiatives and partner with IT on systems and infrastructure processes. These engagements are typically more than 30 days of total effort and include various products. Senior Project Managers will carry a project load of about 20 projects totaling $1.52M in revenue. 

Your Impact

• Determine project partners and team structure/organization partners including technical and business resources

• In conjunction with project partners help ensure the definition of project scope requirements and deliverables

• Develop project timeline and landmarks using appropriate tools and techniques

• Build and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

• Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities and tasks

• Run daytoday operational aspects of a project and scope

• Work on services operational projects that target new services IP delivery partner communications scheduling etc.

• Review deliverables prepared by team before passing to the client

• Effectively apply Palo Alto Networks Project Management methodology and implement project standards

• Minimize our exposure and risk on all projects

• Ensure project documents are complete current and stored appropriately

• Track and report team hours and expenses on a weekly basis

• Provide Executive Dashboards on overall project/project status

• Mentor project managers and project coordinators

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• BS in Computer Science MIS Business or equivalent education/training/experience or equivalent military experience required

• 8 years of related work experience or leading complex projects is preferred

• Analyze project profitability revenue margins bill rates and utilization

• Strong proficiency with project management software such as Microsoft Project SmartSheets and Asana

• Good presentation skills including written oral presentation

• Good organizational skills including tool utilization (spreadsheets project management tools mind maps) information collection attention to detail and prioritization

• Strong interpersonal skills including appreciation and the ability to elicit collaboration from a wide variety of sources including upper management clients and other departments

• Flexible to shifting priorities demands and timelines able to promptly and expertly react to project adjustments and alterations

• Experience managing large scale (Global) deployments with multiple projects teams and resources

• Project Management Institute PMP(r) certification or equivalent a plus

• Experience with Googles G Suite (Drive Docs Sheets and Slides) is a plus

Additional Information :

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 after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesnt stop once they sign it just evolves. Our professional services team provides behindthescenes support to meet our customers needs. As threats and technology evolve we stay in step to accomplish our mission. Youll 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 youll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

Were a fastgrowing 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 were good at scaling quickly to new threats get fulfillment from resolving new problems and think about things just plain differently.

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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $120000 $165000/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.