Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy and Operations
Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy and Operations
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Job Description
Your Career
In this role youll have the opportunity to drive real impact at the intersection of finance technology and strategy. Youll partner directly with senior product and engineering leaders and finance leaders to influence key decisions around our cloud hosting and product strategy and help shape how we think about financial efficiency at scale.
This position is ideal for someone with a technical background looking to transition from a top-tier consulting environment into a high-growth tech company or for someone who has experience in partnering with product finance or FinOps that is ready to own strategic finance initiatives across a critical business area. You will build deep expertise in cloud technologies gain visibility with executive leadership and help evolve how financial insights drive product and operational decisions.
If youre passionate about problem solving thrive in cross-functional settings and want to build a career at the cutting edge of FinOps and cloud strategythis is your chance.
This is an in office role in our HQ Santa Clara CA.
Your Impact
- Strategic Thought Leadership: Be the thought partner to Cortex one of our product platforms on cloud hosting strategy cost optimization and enabling business growth
- Data-Driven Insights: Develop and monitor critical success metrics providing actionable insights that empower product and cross-functional teams to drive key business decisions
- Cloud FinOps Excellence: Define and lead Cloud FinOps initiatives bringing industry best practices and mobilizing cross-functional teams to jointly deliver on our priorities
- End-to-End Initiative Ownership: Lead high-impact strategic initiatives including managing complex negotiations with Cloud Service Providers to secure favorable terms and optimize long-term value
- Financial forecasting and planning: Drive alignment with all the Cortex teams and be responsible for Monthly Business Reviews Monthly Forecast Annual Planning and Long-Range Planning
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- Bachelors or Advanced Degree in Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience) or equivalent military experience required
- 8 years of experience of management consulting finance (especially product finance) or business analytics ideally within the technology sector
- A collaborative results-driven team player with a no stone unturned approach and resilience to overcome challenges
- Strong analytical skills to synthesize data and drive actionable executive decisions
- Proven ability to work effectively with global teams across different time zones communicate financial concepts and foster cross-department collaboration
- Ability to understand cloud hosting products and engage with engineers product managers and technical teams
- Proactive high-performance attitude with the ability to meet tight deadlines and tackle new challenges
- Ability to drive decisions and outcomes using data without formal authority
- Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to lead and clearly communicate complex ideas
- Proficient in building dynamic integrated financial models with strong attention to detail and experience working with large datasets
- Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Preferred (Not Required): Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and basic SQL for data extraction
Additional Information :
The Team
Cloud infrastructure is a critical strategic component to our cloud delivered security offerings. The Cloud Finance team manages cloud spend across the whole PANW portfolio and across Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). We directly manage relationships with our CSPs and drive procurement optimizations via rate negotiations and committed/reserved usage discounts. Working alongside a tight-knit cross-functional group with Cloud Center of Excellence and Data teams we build tooling and dashboards to provide teams with visibility into usage optimization opportunities and cloud unit economics enabling teams to make the best strategic business decisions and providing Executive Staff with insightful proactive recommendations to drive both topline growth and bottom-line efficiency across all Cloud hosted products within the Company.
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.
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 $140000/YR - $226500/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
Employment Type
Full-time
