Chronosphere - Customer Success Architect

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

• Build trusted relationships across all levels of customer organizations, from technical end users to business executives.
• Build, maintain, and execute strategic account plans for your customers
• Lead strategic engagements such as 1:many customer enablement, executive business reviews, and new customer onboardings.
• Serve as the primary advisor across technical initiatives and strategic business outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate risks within your customer portfolio.
• Navigate the Chronosphere ecosystem to remove obstacles, drive adoption, and maximize customer value.
• Act as the voice of the customer to influence product development and customer success strategies.
• Drive adoption of Chronosphere’s platform and features, delivering measurable value and communicating ROI.
• Deliver strategic insights to help customers achieve their business goals.
• Contribute to the evolution of Chronosphere's Customer Success playbooks and best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical, customer-facing roles like Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Professional Services.
• Managed a portfolio of large, complex customers with $1M+ ARR, driving strategic initiatives and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Experience partnering with technical stakeholders (Dev Ops, Engineering, CTO/CIO) and know how to tailor your communication across audiences.
• You think like a strategist, not just an order-taker: you're comfortable owning account strategy, influencing executive conversations, and proactively driving adoption and expansion.
• Strong skills in project management, executive communication, discovery, stakeholder management, and value-based storytelling.
• Hands-on knowledge of observability, monitoring, and cloud-native environments, and you're excited by technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and distributed systems.
• Curiosity, a growth mindset, and a drive to turn ambiguity into opportunity.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.

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