Sr People Business Partner — AI-Powered People Strategy, Global BP Team & Corporate Functions

Zscaler · Santa Clara, California, USA

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $150,500 – $215,000
  • Posted 2026-11-09
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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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 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.

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

Most HR teams are talking about AI. At Zscaler, we're building with it — and we want someone who'll help lead that build, not just adopt it.

As Senior People Business Partner, you'll sit inside our People Business Partner Leadership team with a mandate few PBP roles offer: co-design how our entire global PBP function operates, then put your own designs into practice with the leaders you support across Finance, Legal, Biz Dev, and People & Culture. This isn't a "use the new tool we bought" role — you'll help decide which agentic workflows, automations, and data products the function builds next, pilot them yourself, and scale what works across 30+ global PBPs supporting 9000 executives, managers and employees globally. This is a hybrid role, based out of our Santa Clara, CA HQ.

If you're the person on your current team who's already experimenting with AI before anyone asks you to, who gets more energized by "how do we 10x this" than "how do we maintain this," this is built for you.

How You’ll Make an Impact (Role Expectations)

• Architect Scalable Solutions: you'll design and pilot our first agentic workflow for performance across the organization, ensuring People Business Partners and managers are taking actionable steps to drive intended talent outcomes.

• Design and roll out other AI-augmented practices and global frameworks, such as Organizational Health scorecards and People Plans that empower People Business Partners enterprise-wide to spend less time on administration and more time driving strategic impact.

• Empower & Coach Leaders: Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders and people managers, enabling data-led coaching on performance management, career progression frameworks, and high-performing team dynamics.

• Drive Strategic People Programs: Lead end-to-end execution for key People & Culture initiatives—including bi-annual performance and compensation planning cycles, engagement surveys, and talent reviews—tailored for global impact.

• Turn Workforce Data into Action: Analyze key workforce metrics (attrition, hiring trends, mobility, team engagement) to uncover actionable insights and proactively solve organizational challenges before they arise.

• Champion Culture & Resolution: Partner with People Relations and business leaders as a trusted, neutral advocate to resolve complex employee relations matters with empathy, fairness, and absolute discretion.

• Optimize the Employee Journey: Pinpoint friction points across employee lifecycles and streamline operational workflows, elevating the overall employee and manager experience.

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 creative and curious 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)

• AI & Tech Fluency:

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