Lead, AI Strategy and Transformation

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is expanding its strategy organization and seeking a Lead Strategy for our AI strategy & transformation team.

The Strategy & Transformation team covers CEO-led initiatives ranging from AI to drive efficiency and effectiveness, margin improvement and central GTM initiatives. In the short-term, this role will focus on designing & deploying AI at Scale for better Sales and Marketing initiatives and may expand to additional use-cases. The role is beyond strategy and goes deep into execution to own and drive business outcomes.

As a key leader, you will collaborate with top executives and cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Enablement, Documentation, IT) to tackle mission-critical business challenges and contribute to our industry-leading growth. This role offers a supportive, dynamic, and meritocratic environment that values innovation, learning, and teamwork. In this role, your contributions will directly impact our strategic success and drive innovation in the constantly evolving security landscape.

Your Impact

• Push the thinking on “art of the possible” future
• Own and drive impactful business outcomes
• Drive transformative change with AI in the organization, wearing multiple hats (strategy, product & program management, execution) to do what it takes to “move the needle”
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather insights, co-create deliverables, and drive execution to achieve business goals
• Manage matrix teams and provide coaching & mentoring to team members
• Structure and analyze complex business problems, develop hypotheses, experiment with AI and present data-driven recommendations
• Develop high-quality deliverables for exec-level consumption, including business cases and roadmap/execution plans
• Support strategy and business planning processes while fostering strategic capabilities across the organization

Your Experience

• 4+ years relevant work experience post-MBA with at least 2 years in management consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, etc.), private equity or top-tier tech strategy or “bizops” functions (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc).
• MBA graduate from a top-tier B- school or similar academic credentials or “direct promote” in Consulting or equivalent military experience required
• Experience with AI/Gen-AI transformations and B2B GTM is a significant plus
• Expertise in the Enterprise technology industry is a must, knowledge of cybersecurity industry is a plus but not required
• Experience in building relationships and leading through influence
• Experience managing projects and large-scale transformations
• Effective verbal and written communication ability and comfort with both business and technical discussions with senior audiences
• Great teammate, willing to passionately roll up their sleeves and work cross-functionally to get things done
• Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments with minimal supervision

The Team

Our Strategy and Transformation team is a focused team that works on our most critical business challenges to drive and support our industry-leading growth. Your efforts will directly impact the overall strategy and success of a world-leading cybersecurity business. You will collaborate on complex business and technology problems that are top-of-mind for our executives.