Sr Technical Program Manager II ( NetSec)
About The Position
Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to lead key initiatives across its Network Security Portfolio, including AI Security, Next-Gen Firewalls, and Cloud-Delivered Security Services. The role owns multiple complex engineering programs from inception through release, resolving dependencies and cross-organizational challenges while ensuring complete product development and delivery across engineering, product lifecycle management, support, and operations. The position serves as a subject matter expert and strategic partner across product areas, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and technical decisions, including architectural trade-offs. It also drives process improvements across the NetSec organization by defining product-development planning processes, selecting program-management tools, and implementing dashboards and KPIs for program progress, product quality, and operational efficiency. The Senior Technical Program Manager will act as an AI innovator and catalyst for the NetSec TPM organization. This includes introducing AI workflow tools and agent-development platforms, mentoring TPM teams, and establishing organization-wide productivity and time-savings metrics. The role requires strong technical program leadership, deep security-domain knowledge, strategic judgment, and excellent communication and executive-presentation skills.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of technical program management experience leading large-scale software, cloud security, AI platform, or firewall engineering programs.
- Demonstrated track record of owning multiple high-complexity programs simultaneously across collaborating product divisions.
- Deep technical understanding of AI Security, Cloud-Delivered Security Services, Next-Gen Firewalls, and distributed security architectures.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and multiple priorities; highly adaptable, organized, and detail-oriented.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, strategic mindset, and results-oriented approach.
- Demonstrated leadership in AI adoption, with hands-on experience using tools such as Gemini, NotebookLM, ADK, Anton, or custom AI agent workflows.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, including ability to negotiate architectural trade-offs and present to executive leadership.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
Responsibilities
- Own multiple complex engineering programs from inception through release.
- Identify dependencies, resolve inter-organizational ambiguities, and address cross-product challenges.
- Ensure end-to-end completeness in product development and delivery across engineering, PLM, support, and operations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned product areas and influence peers across teams and organizations.
- Present strategic process decisions to executive leadership.
- Influence technical design and decision-making by evaluating business use cases, system details, and cross-functional trade-offs.
- Drive process change across the NetSec organization.
- Define product-development planning processes, select program-management tools, and implement metrics dashboards and KPIs.
- Lead AI integration and adoption within the NetSec TPM organization.
- Introduce AI workflow tools and agent-development platforms, mentor TPM teams on AI workflows, and establish productivity and time-savings metrics.
Benefits
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
