Manager, Customer Experience

Our Mission

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. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

We are looking for a Manager within our Customer Success Engineering team. You will be responsible for managing a team of Customer Success Engineers (CSE) who enable customer success with our award-winning PANW portfolio. In this high growth business, scaling, optimization, dynamic spirit, and sustained performance are the essentials.

• Customer escalation management, triage, prioritize issues, negotiate customer priorities, and manage expectations
• Develop strong relationships with our sales team, customers, partners and internal teams (TAC, Product Management, Engineering)
• Build and lead a team of Customer Success Engineers
• Drive performance metrics - CSAT, renewal rate, upsell/cross-sell identification, reference-ability, adoption, consumption, and customer engagement
• Ensure customers are maximizing their return on investment by implementing and operationalizing Palo Alto Networks solutions to achieve their objectives
• Assist customers in implementing custom integrations and workflows into their SOC
• Directly support customer requests, coordinate, and prioritize timely resolutions
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of business challenges faced by customers and common objectives to appropriately map features and associated business benefits to address their needs
• Serve as a customer advocate in influencing product roadmap and improvements
• Ensure that engineers have the resources and processes necessary to confirm success and sustained performance through release cycles
• Deliver guidance and direction to the team supporting goals and objectives, maximize engineer opportunity to exceed targets
• Directly provide appropriate technical and soft skills training along with mentoring
• Ensure that consistent and standard onboarding training programs are used and delivered effectively
• Set team and individual goals in-line with overall organizational goals

• 8+ years of experience in Customer Success Engineering, Services Delivery, Professional Services, or Consulting
• 3+ years of experience in people management role
• Strong consulting and project management skills, with shown results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers, including the ability to work well with client teams at different levels of technical and non-technical depth
• Technical experience in networking or cyber security Industries
• Public cloud experience is a plus
• Consistent success working with customer escalations - assessing and communicating customer expectations and negotiating resolutions
• Must be able to travel up to 30%