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About the Role

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a professional to oversee and evolve Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Referral, CYBERFORCE, and Rewards Incentives Programs. This role focuses on driving partner engagement, profitability, and measurable partner and customer value, while optimizing workflows with AI and ensuring incentive structures align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and evolve the Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Referral, CYBERFORCE and Rewards Incentives Programs to drive partner engagement, profitability, and measurable partner and customer value.
• Model personal AI fluency in daily tasks while systematically elevating team capabilities from individual productivity to collaborative AI-driven execution, with a vision for agentic workflows to drive operational efficiency and scale program capacity.
• Ensure program incentives, rewards, and recognition structures are aligned with broader partner program strategy, business objectives tied to RUNN, and measurable partner/customer value.
• Lead ecosystem integration for mergers and acquisitions, serving as the primary lead for large integration tracks, such as CyberArk/ Idira, to ensure business continuity.
• Partner with analytics and operations teams to leverage data-driven insights that improve decision-making, identify operational risks, and inform program enhancements.
• Manage cross-functional steering committee to facilitate discussion that ensure key stakeholders provide guidance for operationalizing and accelerating delivery of successful initiatives.
• Own the multi-year strategic ecosystem program roadmap by liaising with Ecosystems Strategy to translate corporate goals into an operational framework that connects to and aligns all partner programs.
• Focus upstream to connect with Product teams and serve as the lead integration point into Ecosystems Programs to ensure ecosystem needs are built into the NPI process.

Requirements

• 8 + years of experience in partner programs, channel operations, sales programs, or related business operations roles within enterprise technology, SaaS, or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage automation, analytics, and modern AI productivity technologies to improve personal and team operational scalability and efficiency.
• Proven track record designing, building, and launching programs addressing various indirect routes to market.
• Experience in data analytics or consulting a plus.

Skills

• Strategic Agility: Ability to link program design to long-term business outcomes and partner profitability.
• Operational Rigor: A "systems-thinker" who can use modern AI tools to drive consistency and predictability into programs and processes and build scalable, durable solutions.
• Communication: Exceptional executive-level verbal and written communication skills. Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning VP-level leaders across functions.
• Analytical Mindset: High comfort level with data integrity, reporting logic, and financial reconciliation.
• Flexibility: Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with competing priorities.

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Remote
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years

Education Level

• BA/BS degree or higher in Business Administration or similar field or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

• $194,000.00 - $266,500.00/yr

Benefits

• Restricted stock units
• Bonus

About the Company

• At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life.
• We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking.
• In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry.
• We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have.
• We are part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.