[Remote] Dir, Identity Security Customer Success

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is dedicated to protecting digital lives and is seeking a strategic leader for their Global Customer Success Engineering organization. This role involves leading a team of Customer Success Engineers to ensure clients maximize value from Identity Security solutions and proactively manage customer health to prevent churn.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and execute the global Customer Success Engineering strategy aligned with PANW IDIRA's customer retention and growth objectives
• Lead and scale a global organization of technical Customer Success Engineers supporting enterprise and strategic customers across all regions
• Build proactive engagement frameworks that ensure customers continuously realize value from IDIRA solutions throughout their lifecycle
• Establish operational models that identify technical adoption blockers early and accelerate customer time-to-value and product consumption
• Develop scalable best practices, playbooks, and standardized operating procedures to optimize customer technical engagement globally
• Build a proactive customer health monitoring framework that identifies technical risks, declining adoption trends, and early churn indicators across the customer base
• Lead technical intervention strategies for high-value strategic accounts where customer outcomes or retention are at risk
• Ensure rapid escalation management and executive-level visibility for customers experiencing technical challenges that may impact renewal or expansion opportunities
• Partner closely with Customer Success Managers and Renewals teams to proactively address risk factors before they impact customer retention
• Establish predictive processes and operational discipline around identifying and responding to customer churn triggers
• Serve as the executive leader responsible for the technical success and well-being of PANW's most strategic global customers
• Ensure customers adopt best practices that maximize product utilization, operational efficiency, and long-term business value
• Guide customers through complex technical adoption journeys and help remove barriers preventing successful product usage
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor on architecture, deployment optimization, and operational excellence
• Drive customer confidence through consistent delivery of technical expertise and measurable business outcomes
• Partner closely with Product Management, Support, Engineering, Professional Services, and Customer Success teams to improve the overall customer experience
• Act as the voice of the customer by bringing field feedback into product roadmap discussions and influencing product improvement priorities
• Collaborate with Renewals and Account teams to ensure technical customer health directly supports retention and expansion opportunities
• Build strong executive relationships across internal stakeholders to drive alignment around customer success priorities
• Lead global operational consistency while balancing regional customer needs and priorities
• Define and monitor key customer success engineering performance metrics, including product adoption, customer health indicators, retention risk signals, consumption trends, and technical engagement effectiveness
• Implement data-driven operational improvements that improve customer outcomes and reduce preventable churn risk
• Establish reporting mechanisms that provide executive leadership visibility into customer technical health across strategic accounts
• Continuously improve team effectiveness through automation, process optimization, and operational scalability

Skills

• 12+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Engineering, Professional Services, or Enterprise Support organizations, with at least 5+ years in leadership roles
• Proven experience leading global technical customer-facing organizations supporting enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity customers
• Strong understanding of customer success methodologies, subscription business models, retention strategies, and customer lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience building proactive customer health monitoring programs and identifying early churn risk indicators
• Experience managing technical escalations and working directly with strategic enterprise customers in high-impact environments
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success organizations
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance technical leadership with customer retention and commercial objectives
• Exceptional communication, leadership, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving global environment with high visibility and executive exposure
• Willingness to travel as needed

Benefits

• The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
• A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
• 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 [email protected].

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