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Director, Customer Success Engineering, Netsec

Palo Alto Networks

Arlington, Texas

Job description

Overview

As Director of Customer Success for our Network Security business (NGFW/SASE), you own the post-sale customer journey and lead a high-performing team of engineers to ensure enterprise clients realize value from converged security platforms. You'll translate complex SASE/NGFW concepts into business outcomes amid digital transformation, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and threat prevention challenges. You drive adoption, time-to-value, and retention while shaping product feedback with cross-functional partners. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution in a remote, globally dispersed team.

Compensation / Benefits
  • remote work
  • bonus
  • restricted stock units
Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the SASE and NGFW Customer Success strategy with focus on Time-to-Value, adoption depth, and Net Retention
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a dual-focus team of SASE and NGFW Customer Success Engineers
  • Develop lifecycle playbooks from implementation to executive reviews and renewals across cloud-native and hybrid deployments
  • Establish KPIs (Churn, NPS/CSAT, Health Scores, Expansion Pipeline) and drive data-informed improvements
  • Partner with Product/Engineering to deliver the voice of the customer and influence roadmaps
  • Collaborate with Sales to ensure seamless hand-offs and aligned account growth strategies
  • Serve as executive sponsor for accounts and manage at-risk scenarios with cross-functional support
  • Champion shift from hardware-centric networks to modern hybrid architectures with cloud-native SASE models
Key requirements
  • 10+ years in Customer Success or Professional Services in SaaS or cybersecurity
  • 5+ years in people leadership
  • AI-first strategic mindset to scale CS operations
  • Deep understanding of SASE components (SD-WAN, CASB, ZTNA) and NGFW technologies
  • Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise networking
  • Experience managing a large complex enterprise portfolio with adoption, health, retention, and escalations
  • Exceptional communication skills to translate security concepts for non-technical stakeholders
  • Data-driven and focused on customer outcomes and continuous improvement
  • strong communication
  • leadership and people development
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • SASE (SD-WAN, CASB, ZTNA)
  • Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) technologies
  • cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

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