Sr Dir, Customer Success

Palo Alto Networks is committed to protecting our digital way of life through innovation and collaboration. The Sr. Director of Account Health Management will lead the Account Health Team, focusing on driving customer engagement and excellence for strategic customers, while managing and mentoring the team to ensure customer success and value realization from Palo Alto Networks products.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a team of Service Delivery Leaders and Customer Success Managers
• Foster team cohesiveness, focusing on employee morale and development initiatives to promote internal retention
• Set team goals aligned with overall organizational objectives, and provide regular performance feedback to direct reports
• Build a growth mindset-oriented culture that promotes diversity, continuous improvement, a sense of urgency, and customer outcomes
• Inspire and attract top talent to your team
• Lead the Account Health Team to drive customer engagement and excellence for top-tier customers in the region
• Act as a single accountable post-sales leader for customer outcomes, partner execution, and day-to-day post-sales execution and operations in your geography
• Accountable for executive engagement, account health, and risk mitigation
• Oversee customer planning, deployment, account-level reviews, and escalations
• Maintain executive relationships and act as an escalation point to ensure stakeholder alignment and provide proactive, prescriptive advice for outstanding Customer Success
• Handle all escalations, executive engagement, and at-risk account interventions
• Drive success metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to effectively manage Customer Account Health Managers and their teams
• Track and report on customer success metrics, including net promoter score, customer satisfaction, service level agreements, and value realization
• Lead the communication channel into the business, manage business change, and drive process improvements
• Partner with Sales teams to develop success plans, assess customer health, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure renewals
• Engage with Professional Services for implementations and extended expertise deployments
• Partner with Sales and Product field leaders to drive adoption and retention
• Engage and coordinate customer delivery across Palo Alto Networks teams, including Product Management, Engineering, and Support
• Build strong cross-functional interlocks and operating cadences with Sales, Product, and Technical Consulting teams in your area
• Ensure consistent application of global playbooks per product
• Provide field feedback and interlock with Product/Engineering
• Align with Support, which is globally owned but locally deployed