Senior Product Marketing Manager - AI Protect

Role

We are looking for a Sr. Product Marketing Manager – AI Protect to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in San Jose reporting to the VP Product Marketing – AI Security in the Marketing department. Enterprise security teams are navigating a two-front AI challenge: employees are adopting AI tools faster than security teams can track creating data exposure risks and shadow AI sprawl — while adversaries are weaponizing AI to launch faster harder-to-detect attacks. AI Protect is Zscaler's answer to both. As the Sr. PMM for AI Protect you will own the go-to-market strategy positioning and field enablement for one of Zscaler's most strategically important and competitively active product lines — taking a sharp differentiated story to market and equipping the global sales organization to win.

This role is for someone who combines competitive sharpness with genuine customer obsession — someone who understands how security teams think what keeps them up at night and how to build the tools that give sellers an unfair advantage.

What You'll Do (Role Expectations)

• Own Marketing Strategy and Execution: Drive positioning messaging and cross-functional launch execution for AI Protect; partner closely with Product Management to translate roadmap investments into compelling market narratives.
• Develop Impactful Messaging: Create highly differentiated messaging across AI Protect’s core pillars: securing employee AI adoption (shadow AI AI DLP GenAI visibility) and defending against AI-powered threats (adversarial AI AI-driven attacks).
• Build Deep Persona Understanding: Establish a profound grasp of the multi-persona buying center—including Data Security owners SecOps teams Risk/Compliance officers and CISOs—and develop tailored content for each.
• Lead Competitive Intelligence: Monitor the competitive landscape synthesize actionable insights and actively enable the field to confidently differentiate Zscaler's offerings and win deals.
• Drive Sales Enablement Programs: Build robust field tools—including battlecards objection handlers and targeted sales plays—that equip account teams to navigate complex buying cycles and accelerate revenue.

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You are relentlessly curious. The AI threat landscape moves faster than any analyst report. New attack techniques new tools new buyer anxieties — you stay ahead of all of it form your own point of view and bring that perspective to everything you build.
• You have the courage to be bold. You write competitive content with conviction. You take positions others hedge around and make sharp arguable claims — then back them up — because that's what earns the attention of buyers who've heard every security vendor's story before.
• You care deeply. Whether it's a battlecard or a keynote narrative you hold yourself to a standard of excellence. You believe precision builds trust — with buyers sellers and your team — and that sloppy work is the fastest way to lose credibility in a competitive market.
• You thrive in ambiguity and act like an owner — moving between strategy and execution with urgency and integrity and holding yourself accountable to outcomes not just outputs.
• You are a high-trust collaborator. Ambitious for the team not just yourself. You build trust through candor clarity and a genuine commitment to shared outcomes.

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5+ Years of Specialized Marketing Experience: Requires 5+ years of experience in product marketing competitive intelligence or technical marketing for enterprise security cloud or SaaS paired with a BS/MS in a STEM Marketing or a related field.  
• Security & AI Domain Acumen: Broad familiarity with core enterprise security domains—including data security cloud security security operations and threat detection—combined with a foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies to effectively position AI-driven solutions.  
• Contested Market Positioning: Proven ability to develop sharp highly differentiated messaging and competitive positioning for B2B security products across technical and leadership buying personas in active contested markets.  
• Impactful Sales Enablement: Demonstrated experience building robust sales enablement programs and field tools—such as battlecards targeted sales plays and persona-specific assets—that drive measurable field impact.  
• Elite Communication Skills: Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills that display absolute precision on the page and complete confidence on the stage.  

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in marketing or competitive positioning for data security CASB SSE or AI security — with familiarity across vendors such as Netskope Palo Alto CrowdStrike or Microsoft
• Familiarity with AI data security AI aseet discovery AI access security or AI runtime security — and the ability to connect these capabilities to real security operations and data governance challenges
• A track record of building field enablement content that sales teams actually use — sharp credible and built around how buyers think and buy

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What We Do

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users devices and applications in any location.

Why Work With Us

Our impact comes from how we work—every day in every decision as one team. Our values and leadership principles are more than words; they're our operating system. They fuel a culture of execution where trust transparency and accountability help us deliver meaningful results for our customers colleagues and our company. www.zscaler.com/culture

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