Principal Product Manager-Sovereign Cloud

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 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.

About the Role

This is a hybrid role, based in San Jose, CA. You will lead strategy, roadmap execution, and adoption for Sovereign Cloud initiatives across a complex enterprise product portfolio. This is a high-visibility role where you will drive critical projects to scale our Sovereign Cloud offerings, ensuring our Zero Trust Exchange remains the global leader in cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product roadmap for Zscaler Sovereign Solutions, addressing critical customer and partner priorities
• 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, prioritize investments, analyze competition, and anticipate emerging trends
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and align teams on strategy, sequencing, and execution tradeoffs

Success Profile

• You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable building the path as you walk it, viewing dynamic environments as an opportunity to build something meaningful.
• You act like an owner, bringing a strong bias for action, deep integrity, and the agility to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a dedicated problem-solver who is energized by complex challenges and focused on delivering high-impact solutions.
• You are a high-trust collaborator who builds team success through transparent communication, mutual respect, and constructive candor.
• You operate with urgency, balancing speed and quality to deliver high-impact results quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
• 10+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of defining, launching, and scaling successful security products for cloud environments
• Deep technical expertise in network security and protocols including proxies, firewalls, TLS, PKI, and HTTP/S
• Proven experience with cloud-native services at hyper-scalers or major SaaS providers
• Exceptional collaboration and stakeholder management skills with experience translating complex customer needs into well-defined product requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical background or industry experience in Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Technical Product Management
• Proven ability to balance long-term platform strategy with near-term engineering delivery needs and influence without direct authority
• Enterprise networking and Zscaler expertise, including a deep understanding of global transit architectures, underlays, and networking technologies combined with direct, hands-on experience with Zscaler products (ZIA, ZPA, or ZDX)

Pay

Base Pay Range: $171,500—$245,000 USD

Benefits

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