About the company
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 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and launch a comprehensive, modern talent architecture, intelligence and mechanisms purpose-built for an AI-native, hyper-growth enterprise, rather than constrained by traditional talent management practices, including our talent philosophy, operating principles, performance indicators, processes, and tools across talent intelligence, career architecture, mobility, talent reviews and succession integrated with Zscaler’s performance and development ecosystem
- Partner with People Strategy & Operations/People Science to translate workforce data into actionable talent intelligence to build dynamic profiles based on inferred, self-declared, and peer/manager-declared skills, moving beyond static job descriptions to map true organizational capability. Uncover emergent skillsets both internally and externally to proactively design development plans to meet future talent needs
- In partnership with TA, HRBPs and People Technology, conceptualize and deploy an internal talent marketplace that dynamically matches employees' self-declared career interests and evolving skills with Zscaler's business needs and strategic initiatives
- Provide talent and capability intelligence that informs enterprise and functional workforce planning, succession and development strategies
- Partner across People Success to translate talent insights into leadership, learning, performance, career and team interventions that build priority capabilities and strengthen the talent pipeline
Requirements
- 10+ years of high-impact experience in Talent Strategy, or Organizational Development, with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity (Director level or equivalent)
- Proven track record of disruption: Demonstrated experience reimagining legacy talent practices and replacing them with simpler, agile, technology-enabled approaches centered on skills and mobility
- Expertise in Talent Tech & AI: Deep understanding of internal talent marketplaces, skills-ontology platforms, and talent intelligence tools. A strong appetite for utilizing AI to infer skills and drive workforce planning
- Strategic execution: Ability to operate with the strategic foresight of an executive advisor while remaining deeply involved in the daily craft of program building (a true player-coach)
- Agility & Ownership: An "impact over activity" mindset, coupled with high diplomatic acumen and the ability to thrive in a matrixed, hyper-growth environment
Conditions
- Location: Santa Clara, California, USA