Remote Technology Director Jobs
Remote Technology Director jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed engineering organizations, and established companies building out location-independent technology teams. Sectors seeing the most remote demand include software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise SaaS, with employers like Gartner, Parexel, and Concept Plus actively hiring. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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!
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.Job Summary
Director, Field Technology Office and Advisory (Idira)
In this role, you will work side-by-side with Idira (CyberArk) customers, prospects, partners, and market opinion leaders as a Director in the Identity Field Technology office, a team that is responsible for leading, in definition and practice, our global Technical Sales strategy and setting the direction of how sellers take Palo Alto Networks’ identity solutions and translate them to a winning technical GTM. The scope of this extends to every technology that Idira offers into the realms of holistic identity security with a special focus on securing modern environments and influencing customer executives to rethink common PAM/IAM/IGA constructs and to move toward platformization.
This will have you partnering with our domain consultants, sales teams, solutions, marketing, product management, channel partners, and regional sales leaders to construct compelling solution offerings and to make Idira’s thought leadership position, and the deep technical concepts behind it, stronger and more approachable.
This will also have you spending the majority of your time in direct interactions with customer and prospect leaders to inspire confidence in PANW’s market leadership, concentrated in and around the US West with the opportunity to make a global impact.
This team builds strategies for accelerating technical pre-sales activity and sets the technical presentation standards for the customer facing technical or outcomes discussions (i.e., how to technically speak about Idira offerings).
You will act as a visionary and industry expert being at the intersection of business and technology and can apply your successful track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market that are applicable to various sub verticals in the industry, across global customers and partners.
Likewise, you will be the technical voice of the customer—bringing customer insights directly to the product, solutions, and engineering teams to provide real-world experience into product development and competitive differentiation.
What you bring:
- You’re a dynamic presenter with a penchant for ‘talking at the right level’—being empathetic with your audience to understand their challenges, motivations, and technical level when crafting guidance. This will be applied across C-level and technical audiences—internal and external.
- You are based in or around the US West. You love to combine strategy with execution, and you play for your teammates
- - leading our technical GTM by example.
- You’re a well-rounded technologist at heart with a passion for how technology (not just ours) is ever-changing and has the power to create a positive impact.
- You have deep experience in identity and access management, privileged access management, and machine identity security and have built/executed programs that cross all of these domains with large organizations.
- You are geo-savvy, creative, and most comfortable engaging in activities that when successful, bring great benefit to other teams.
- You are inquisitive and never stop learning. Every trend, every meeting, every enablement, and every engagement is an opportunity to help our technical go-to-market become stronger.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Have direct involvement with our most strategic customers and partners, building trusted relationships with technical stakeholders/leaders, participate in product and solution briefings, and lead co-innovation projects.
- Be the voice of the customer identifying industry trends, functional requirements and technical gaps to partner with product management for prioritization.
- Drive repeatability by creating specific technical selling assets (concept slides, executive briefing materials, use cases, demonstration guidance, GTM play concepts and solutions)
- Collaborate with our business transformation and solution specialist go-to-market teams to prioritize industry-specific capabilities and drive Palo Alto Networks’ winning strategy vision into the market.
- Collaborate with pre-sales leadership, GTM leadership, and the enablement and excellence teams in scaling the winning motion by enabling and activating the SE team and business teams.
- Identify, recruit and map potential ISV partners and marketplace providers to target reference architecture, data sets and use cases.
- Enable the technical sales team on industry trends and solution offerings.
- Lead EBC technical and roadmap/vision discussions
- Collaborate with the technical community to provide feedback and impact on future product development.
- Contribute and participate in industry marketing activities such as webinars, conferences, blogs etc.
Qualifications
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.
$239,000.00 - $278,750.00/yrOur 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.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!
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.Job Summary
Director, Field Technology Office and Advisory (Idira)
In this role, you will work side-by-side with Idira (CyberArk) customers, prospects, partners, and market opinion leaders as a Director in the Identity Field Technology office, a team that is responsible for leading, in definition and practice, our global Technical Sales strategy and setting the direction of how sellers take Palo Alto Networks’ identity solutions and translate them to a winning technical GTM. The scope of this extends to every technology that Idira offers into the realms of holistic identity security with a special focus on securing modern environments and influencing customer executives to rethink common PAM/IAM/IGA constructs and to move toward platformization.
This will have you partnering with our domain consultants, sales teams, solutions, marketing, product management, channel partners, and regional sales leaders to construct compelling solution offerings and to make Idira’s thought leadership position, and the deep technical concepts behind it, stronger and more approachable.
This will also have you spending the majority of your time in direct interactions with customer and prospect leaders to inspire confidence in PANW’s market leadership, concentrated in and around the US West with the opportunity to make a global impact.
This team builds strategies for accelerating technical pre-sales activity and sets the technical presentation standards for the customer facing technical or outcomes discussions (i.e., how to technically speak about Idira offerings).
You will act as a visionary and industry expert being at the intersection of business and technology and can apply your successful track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market that are applicable to various sub verticals in the industry, across global customers and partners.
Likewise, you will be the technical voice of the customer—bringing customer insights directly to the product, solutions, and engineering teams to provide real-world experience into product development and competitive differentiation.
What you bring:
- You’re a dynamic presenter with a penchant for ‘talking at the right level’—being empathetic with your audience to understand their challenges, motivations, and technical level when crafting guidance. This will be applied across C-level and technical audiences—internal and external.
- You are based in or around the US West. You love to combine strategy with execution, and you play for your teammates
- - leading our technical GTM by example.
- You’re a well-rounded technologist at heart with a passion for how technology (not just ours) is ever-changing and has the power to create a positive impact.
- You have deep experience in identity and access management, privileged access management, and machine identity security and have built/executed programs that cross all of these domains with large organizations.
- You are geo-savvy, creative, and most comfortable engaging in activities that when successful, bring great benefit to other teams.
- You are inquisitive and never stop learning. Every trend, every meeting, every enablement, and every engagement is an opportunity to help our technical go-to-market become stronger.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Have direct involvement with our most strategic customers and partners, building trusted relationships with technical stakeholders/leaders, participate in product and solution briefings, and lead co-innovation projects.
- Be the voice of the customer identifying industry trends, functional requirements and technical gaps to partner with product management for prioritization.
- Drive repeatability by creating specific technical selling assets (concept slides, executive briefing materials, use cases, demonstration guidance, GTM play concepts and solutions)
- Collaborate with our business transformation and solution specialist go-to-market teams to prioritize industry-specific capabilities and drive Palo Alto Networks’ winning strategy vision into the market.
- Collaborate with pre-sales leadership, GTM leadership, and the enablement and excellence teams in scaling the winning motion by enabling and activating the SE team and business teams.
- Identify, recruit and map potential ISV partners and marketplace providers to target reference architecture, data sets and use cases.
- Enable the technical sales team on industry trends and solution offerings.
- Lead EBC technical and roadmap/vision discussions
- Collaborate with the technical community to provide feedback and impact on future product development.
- Contribute and participate in industry marketing activities such as webinars, conferences, blogs etc.
Qualifications
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.
$239,000.00 - $278,750.00/yrOur 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.See All 50 Remote Technology Director Jobs
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Insurance
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote technology director jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive technology leadership experience, including direct team management
- Proven experience overseeing enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, or large-scale software delivery
- Strong background in budgeting, vendor management, and technology roadmap planning
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk management practices
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related engineering field
- Relevant certifications such as PMP, ITIL, AWS Solutions Architect, or CISSP
Tips for Your Remote Technology Director Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote technology director openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through mixed location results.
Lead your resume with remote leadership proof
Call out distributed team sizes, async tools you've used (Confluence, Linear, Notion), and outcomes you drove without in-person oversight. Remote employers need to see that you've already succeeded in a location-independent environment.
Build a written communication portfolio
Remote technology director candidates who can share examples of architecture decision records, engineering roadmaps, or technical strategy documents give hiring managers concrete evidence of the async leadership skills the role demands.
Prepare for remote-specific interview formats
Expect async take-home exercises, video panel interviews across time zones, and written case studies alongside live technical discussions. Practice explaining technical trade-offs clearly in writing, since remote hiring teams often evaluate candidates partly on their documentation quality.
Remote Technology Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote technology director job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed teams, which hire technology directors who can lead without in-person presence. Remote employers screen heavily for written communication, async decision-making, and the ability to set technical direction independently. Candidates who show experience managing remote engineers, driving cross-functional projects through documentation, and maintaining visibility across distributed stakeholders stand out.
Which companies hire remote technology directors?
Remote technology director roles are posted by Gartner, Parexel, and Concept Plus and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first software companies, distributed fintech firms, and healthcare technology organizations are among the most active employers of technology directors in fully remote settings.
Can you get a remote technology director job with no experience?
Yes, but remote technology director roles at the entry level are harder to land because employers expect you to operate with minimal oversight from day one. Smaller remote-first startups and early-stage distributed teams are more open to candidates who haven't held the exact title before. Showing a portfolio of technical leadership, shipped projects, and written engineering documentation can substitute for years in a director seat.
Do you need a degree for remote technology director jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring technology directors weigh demonstrated technical leadership, a history of shipping and scaling systems, and the ability to manage distributed engineering teams far more heavily than a diploma. Many remote-first companies list a degree as preferred rather than required, and strong results in previous roles consistently override formal credentials.
Which industries hire the most remote technology directors?
Remote technology director roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Insurance, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams and need technology directors who can provide technical direction and leadership without a centralized office.
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