Senior Creative Director

Zscaler; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Time off plans for vacation and sick

Parental leave

Retirement options

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler is seeking a visionary Senior Creative Director to lead global brand transformation from its San Jose HQ. You will translate business strategy into high-impact creative experiences and build a world-class, multidisciplinary team across design, video, and UX/UI.

You will partner with senior leaders, drive brand storytelling across digital, web, and physical touchpoints, and establish scalable brand systems that elevate market leadership and trust in enterprise SaaS.

Qualifications

• Executive presence and ability to influence senior leadership
• Strategic mindset translating business strategy into brand initiatives
• Proven experience leading and scaling integrated creative teams
• Strong portfolio of relevant brand work
• Experience in enterprise B2B SaaS or technical categories

Responsibilities

• Drive global visual brand evolution and creative direction across touchpoints
• Build, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary global creative team
• Translate complex business priorities into clear creative briefs and roadmaps
• Orchestrate brand storytelling across digital platforms, web experiences, and physical touchpoints
• Establish holistic brand systems and guidelines for campaigns and experiences

Skills

Executive presence

Influence senior leadership

Cross‑functional collaboration

Brand strategy

Leadership of creative teams

Job description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.

We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler.

Role

We are looking for a Senior Creative Director t to join our team. This is a hybrid role based out of our global headquarters in San Jose, CA, reporting to the VP, Brand Marketing in the Brand Marketing department. We are seeking a visionary Senior Creative Director to serve as a strategic creative partner to senior leadership and lead our global brand transformation. Reporting directly to the VP, Brand Marketing, this role will drive the overarching creative vision, translate business and brand strategy into high-impact global experiences, and lead a world-class creative organization. You will serve as a key partner across teams, scaling our brand story and visual identity to elevate our market leadership, inspire customer trust, and cultivate a culture of creative excellence.

What You’ll Do (Role Expectations)

• Drive the global visual brand evolution and creative direction across all touchpoints, ensuring cohesion, differentiation, and narrative excellence
• Build, scale, and mentor a high-performing, multidisciplinary global creative team spanning design, art direction, video, and UX/UI
• Serve as a trusted partner to senior executives, translating complex business priorities into clear creative briefs and strategic roadmaps
• Orchestrate brand-led storytelling across digital platforms, web experiences, and physical environment touchpoints
• Establish holistic brand systems, guidelines, and visual frameworks to guide global campaigns, digital platforms, and experiential touchpoints

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action, operating with integrity and navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a trusted collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, embracing our challenge culture with candor, clarity, and respect to earn trust and elevate collective performance.
• You champion simplicity. You excel at distilling complex problems and strategic concepts into clear, actionable plans and precise communications that bring focus to every interaction.
• You think at scale. You connect day-to-day creative work to the broader corporate mission, building global solutions, frameworks, and teams that support long-term growth.
• You lead with integrity. You hold yourself and others to high standards of accountability, building trust through consistent, transparent action and steady leadership through complexity.

What We’re Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

• You are relentlessly curious. The AI threat landscape moves faster than any analyst report. New attack techniques, new tools, new buyer anxieties — you stay ahead of all of it, form your own point of view, and bring that perspective to everything you build
• Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and cross-functional partners
• Strategic, growth-oriented mindset with a track record of translating business strategy into compelling brand initiatives
• Proven experience leading and scaling integrated creative teams, with a passion for inspiring high-performing talent and driving standout work in enterprise B2B SaaS or technical categories.
• Strong portfolio of relevant work

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Proven track record of leading large scale, end-to-end brand transformation or repositioning in an enterprise B2B SaaS environment
• Strong leadership skills
• Hands-on experience implementing generative AI design tools to accelerate content production workflows across global creative teams

Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range

$203,000—$290,000 USD

At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.

Benefits

Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!

Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here.

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

Pay Transparency

Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.

Reasonable Support

Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.