- Location
- Tokyo, JPN
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- APJ Field Sales
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
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.
We’re looking for a Transformation Architect - Major who brings technical depth, business acumen, and a relentless curiosity about how our major customers operate. This is a role for someone who takes pride in exceptional work, earns trust quickly, and helps customers turn complex challenges into clear digital transformation strategies.
In this role, you will lead customer engagements that uncover business challenges, assess current-state architecture, and guide our critical healthcare customers toward a differentiated future-state design built on Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange to help them securely modernize and achieve their digital transformation goals.
You’ll facilitate interactive whiteboard sessions and strategic workshops, combining deep technical expertise with strong business acumen to help our customers plan and accelerate their Zero Trust transformation. Your work will shape high-level architectures, transformation roadmaps, and design strategies that are critical to supporting both the success of our customers and our West Healthcare Sales Team.
What You’ll do:
- Lead cross-functional workshops to uncover business priorities, technical challenges, and current-state architecture
- Guide customers through Zero Trust digital transformation aligned to business goals
- Identify pain points, drivers for change, and decision criteria
- Translate customer requirements into architectures, use cases, and solution designs
- Lead clearly articulated strategic architecture discussions with both executive and technical stakeholders
- Differentiate Zscaler through technical vision and architecture leadership
- Create high-level Zero Trust architectures and transformation roadmaps
- Assess existing environments and deliver actionable future-state recommendations, including High-Level Design documentation
- Influence and mentor teammates across the organization
Who You Are:
- Curious and Customer-Obsessed: You have a relentless curiosity in understanding how our customers operate, the challenges they face, and the barriers to success.
- Proud of your work: Drive high-quality execution with a strong standard for clarity, rigor, and meaningful business results. You move with urgency and focus on results that matter
- Comfortable with ambiguity: Create structure from ambiguity and confidently lead complex initiatives from concept to action.
- Collaborative and high-trust: Build trusted cross-functional partnerships through candid communication, strong collaboration, and a focus on the best outcome.
- Focused Communicator: Communicate complex ideas simply to any audience and act with urgency to turn business and technical challenges into clear, practical results.
Minimum Qualifications
- Native level Japanese language ability
- 10+ years of experience in networking and cybersecurity
- Advanced degree or equivalent technical experience, supported by relevant industry certifications
- Deep knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and related laws, regulations, and best practices
- Strong understanding of networking and security environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated technical depth and credibility through advanced industry certifications in networking, cybersecurity, or network architecture (e.g., CCIE, JNCIE, CISSP, or equivalent).
- Experience in a customer-facing technical leadership or evangelist role
- Cloud expertise or experience in adjacent technical domains
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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.
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. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link.
Pay Transparency
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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.
