Principal Product Manager

Zscaler; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zscaler in San Jose, CA seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead the Zero Trust Cloud product line. You will shape the strategy, own the roadmap, and partner with engineering, sales, and marketing to deliver secure, scalable cloud-security solutions.

You will gather customer feedback worldwide, analyze market trends, and drive cross-functional initiatives to accelerate adoption and ensure go-to-market success.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with a track record in security products for public clouds.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI and Zero Trust related concepts.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management translating customer needs into product requirements.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and applying them in product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product roadmap for Zero Trust Cloud offerings.
• Deliver an intuitive administrator experience simplifying security operations with data-driven insights.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations across engineering, sales, and marketing to bring products to market.
• Engage with global customers to gather feedback, identify opportunities, and analyze competition.
• Build strategic public cloud partnerships to accelerate adoption and leadership.

Skills

7+ years product management

Public cloud platforms: AWS/Azure/GCP/

Zero Trust Networking

Public Cloud Networking

IAM, DLP

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML awareness

Job description

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise , we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world's largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate -we're focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession , collaboration, ownership, and accountability.

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you're enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you're driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that's helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

Role

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Product Management team. This is a hybrid role based in our San Jose, CA office, reporting to the Director, Product Management. We built the Zscaler architecture from the ground up as a platform that could extend to new features and services. Our Product Management team takes hold of this massive opportunity to deliver our customers a growing portfolio of never-before-seen capabilities in threat prevention, visibility, scalability, and business enablement. Join us to make your mark on the planning and product roadmap at the forefront of the world's cloud security leader.

What you'll do (Role Expectations)

• Define and execute the product roadmap for the Zero Trust Cloud product line, addressing critical customer priorities for public cloud security
• Deliver an intuitive administrator experience that simplifies complex security operations with actionable, data-driven insights
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional collaborations across engineering, sales, and marketing to successfully drive products from concept to market delivery
• Engage with global customers to gather feedback, identify market opportunities, analyze competition, and anticipate emerging trends in public cloud security
• Build strategic public cloud partnerships to align innovation with go-to-market strategies, driving accelerated adoption and market leadership

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback-knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
• You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 7+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of defining, launching, and scaling successful security products for public cloud environments.
• In-depth, hands-on expertise with major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Strong foundation in Zero Trust Networking, Public Cloud Networking, Multi-Cloud Governance, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Threat Protection, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
• Exceptional collaboration and stakeholder management skills with experience translating complex customer needs into well-defined product requirements.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain.

**What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred