Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting the digital way of life. They are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead enterprise customer migrations and manage complex onboarding projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementations.
Responsibilities
- Drive Enterprise Migrations: Lead the execution of large-scale customer onboarding and implementation projects, managing complex cross-organizational dependencies from kickoff to go-live
- Scope & Plan Frameworks: Partner with client technical leads to gather requirements and asset scope. Lead internal discovery with Solution Architects and Implementation Engineers to map out tailored migration paths
- Deconstruct Complex Projects: Break down technical initiatives into clear milestones. Proactively identify risks, track dependencies, and resolve bottlenecks before they impact timelines
- Communicate with Impact: Translate technical goals, migration project status, and risks into clear narratives for stakeholders at every level, comfortably pivoting from deep-tech engineering syncs to customer executive briefings
- Scale & Streamline: Analyze delivery metrics and onboarding data to identify friction points, eliminate manual workflows, and continuously scale migration velocity
- Build the Migration Playbook: Build, refine, and own standardized customer migration workstream templates and engagement frameworks to institutionalize knowledge
- Forecast & Manage Portfolio Health: Maintain a macro-view of all active customer implementations; track resource capacity against the onboarding pipeline to prevent burnout and delivery delays
- Champion TPM Best Practices: Mentor junior team members and institutionalize project management standards, modern tooling architectures (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana), and agile methodologies across the Customer Success organization
Skills
- 6+ years of experience working within technical domains or organizations, maintaining a deep technical foundation (such as a background or strong literacy in Software Engineering or DevOps)
- 4+ years of experience specifically as a Technical Program Manager, with a proven track record of orchestrating complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Direct experience in customer-facing technical functions (e.g., Professional Services, Technical Consulting), confidently guiding enterprise clients through high-stakes platform transitions
- Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and influence senior engineering and executive leadership, both internally and externally, without direct authority
- An analytical approach to delivery; proficient in tracking metrics, forecasting project lifecycles, and building data-backed delivery tools (e.g., capacity models, workflow automations)
- Familiarity with the observability and monitoring landscape, including open-source standards (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, M3)
Benefits
- Restricted stock units
- A bonus
- A description of our employee benefits may be found here
- Reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability
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