Director Quality Operations

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few

Your Career

We're looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented Quality Execution Manager to help drive alignment, clarity, and execution across our Quality Engineering group. 

In this role, you'll work closely with QA leadership and managers to streamline operational workflows, eliminate friction, and ensure teams are well-positioned to deliver high-quality releases — quickly and consistently.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role that blends strategic thinking with strong execution and coordination. Rather than managing people directly, you'll be orchestrating the processes, initiatives, and communication that keep our Quality organization running smoothly and effectively.

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Your Impact

• Drive operational excellence across the QA organization by building and maintaining efficient, scalable processes
• Partner with QA leaders to turn priorities into action — aligning teams, timelines, and deliverables
• Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leadership to ensure quality is built into every stage of the development lifecycle
• Coordinate with other QA teams across the company to share best practices, align on standards, and support cross-product initiatives
• Improve visibility and accountability across QA efforts and cross-functional project
• Bring structure and clarity to complex initiatives, ensuring progress stays on track even in fast-moving or ambiguous environments

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in QA management, QA architect, technical program management, or operational roles within R&D
• Proven experience managing or leading quality engineering teams or groups.
• A strong sense of ownership and bias for action — you get things done
• Highly organized, structured, and comfortable managing multiple moving parts
• Excellent communicator, clear, proactive, and collaborative
• Able to influence without authority and build trust across teams
• Background in quality engineering, automation, or release coordination.

The Team

We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo. Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our pioneering Security Operating Platform emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Our Security Operating Platform is built for automation. It is easy to operate, with capabilities that work together, so customers can prevent successful cyberattacks. They can use analytics to automate routine tasks, so they can focus on what matters. We are known for continuously delivering innovations; and with Application Framework, we extend that to an open ecosystem of developers that benefit from our customers' existing investment in data, sensors, and enforcement points.

Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.