Sr. Partner Business Manager

About this role

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 an experienced Senior Partner Business Manager to join our Partner & Alliances team. This is a remote role located in the Ohio Valley is reporting to the Sr. Director, Partner & Alliances. You’ll drive a secure, cloud-enabled digital future by building and executing structured business plans for partner alliances to further cement Zscaler’s position as the world leader in cloud security. You will act as a strategic catalyst, leveraging executive relationships and internal collaboration to deliver on regional revenue goals.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Build, own, and execute a structured business plan for partner alliances across your region, jointly defining a strategic focus account list

• Enable: Deliver sales enablement to a room full of partner sellers. Walk them through buying personas, the competitive landscape, and why Zscaler etc.

• Align: Execute joint account planning (interlocks) between Zscaler AEs and Partner AEs to map out a sales cycle. Define how we present our joint message to the economic buyer and hold each other accountable to the actions agreed on in the interlock

• Engage: Execute customer-facing events where we provide channel marketing funds to a partner in exchange for them leveraging their relationships to bring customers to an event with Zscaler AEs and executives.

• Accelerate pipeline with a set of alliances to ensure we deliver on the Zscaler revenue goals for the region

• Build and maintain executive relationships within the alliance's business organization, including their Security, Network, Cloud, and Digital Workplace practices

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