Marketing Operations Program Manager

Company Description
**Our Mission**

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish - but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for the better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and our way of working to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

**Job Description**:
**About this Role**

As Marketing Operations Program Manager on the Strategy, Growth & Operations team you will be responsible for managing multiple concurrent, high visibility projects using agile methods in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will work closely with marketing leadership and x-functional teams as a strategic lever in driving more effective project execution and leading workstreams to achieve a high level of performance and quality.

You will have the unique opportunity to consult and advise program managers across the marketing org and create an agile program management community. You will share best practices that will be leveraged to improve overall team efficiency and effectiveness.

In addition, you will establish and own the operating rhythm for the Strategy, Growth & Operations team and will be responsible for improving project status visibility, creating efficiencies and driving alignment.

**Your Impact**
- Architect, accelerate progress, and complete strategic, complex projects
- Define project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value.
- Organize into workstreams and lead project status and working meetings.
- Manage risks and issues, remove roadblocks and correct deviations from plans.
- Hold teams accountable for their commitments.
- Boost team efficiency and reduce redundant work by leveraging your agile program management skills, establish best practices and accelerate adoption
- Achieve scalability and establish consistent processes to enable more efficient execution across the organization
- Innovate and test new program management trends to improve processes
- Improve alignment and project visibility. Establish and own the operating rhythm for the Strategy, Growth and Operations organization
- Empower our regions and improve the alignment and scalability with our regional marketing teams

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field required
- Expertise in both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit the project and business environment
- 5+ years of experience as a Marketing Project Manager, PMP preferred
- Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies
- A proven track record of successfully managing large, complex projects in a fast paced environment using Agile methodologies and Project Management tools such as Jira
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands; Comfortable with ambiguity
- Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and technical teams at all levels
- Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view
- Deadline-driven, organized, and able to adapt to the rapid business and organizational demands that result from a high-growth environment
- Strong EQ - effective interpersonal skills to build working relationships and accomplish work goals; Strong ability to help people feel valued, appreciated and included in discussions

Additional Information
**Your Team**

Being in marketing at Palo Alto Networks means that you will be in the midst of the changes impacting our cybersecurity industry, helping our internal teams, customers, and partners address the ever-changing threats we all face daily. Making, doing, building, and rebuilding, leading initiatives that have never been done before. We solve real problems with new ideas, striving tirelessly for simplicity.

We are disruptors; we challenge entrenched beliefs and look to the future of what’s possible. We like our work to answer big questions and drive the business ahead. How do we enable more productivity and strengthen our ability to scale? How d