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Zscaler

Secures workforce access to apps and the internet

Head of Talent Agility

Learning & DevelopmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSanta Clara, CA, USA$175k - $250kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of high-impact experience in Talent Strategy or Organizational Development, including at least 5 years in a leadership capacity at Director level or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated experience reimagining legacy talent practices and replacing them with simpler, agile, technology-enabled approaches centered on skills and mobility.
  • Deep understanding of internal talent marketplaces, skills-ontology platforms, and talent intelligence tools, and a strong appetite for using artificial intelligence to infer skills and drive workforce planning.
  • Ability to operate as a strategic executive advisor while remaining involved in the daily work of program building.
  • Ability to thrive in a matrixed, hyper-growth environment with diplomatic acumen and an impact-over-activity mindset.
  • Ability to innovate by learning from the past, balancing new ideas with practical application, and applying curiosity and a simplified, practical lens to identify effective solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and launch a modern talent architecture and intelligence system for an AI-native, hyper-growth enterprise, including talent philosophy, operating principles, performance indicators, processes, and tools across talent intelligence, career architecture, mobility, talent reviews, and succession, integrated with the performance and development ecosystem.
  • Partner with People Strategy & Operations and People Science to turn workforce data into actionable talent intelligence and build dynamic profiles from inferred, self-declared, and peer- or manager-declared skills, mapping organizational capability beyond static job descriptions.
  • Identify emerging internal and external skillsets and proactively design development plans to meet future talent needs.
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR business partners, and People Technology to conceptualize and deploy an internal talent marketplace that matches employees' career interests and evolving skills with business needs and strategic initiatives.
  • Provide talent and capability intelligence to inform 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.
  • Establish an actionable, dynamic view of enterprise talent and capabilities to identify and close critical skill gaps before they affect business velocity.
  • Create intelligence and mechanisms that enable leaders and HR business partners to identify and deploy talent against high-priority business and capability needs.
  • Increase the proportion of roles filled internally by matching employee skills and aspirations to open opportunities through the talent marketplace, in partnership with Talent Acquisition and HR business partners.
  • Increase career growth and internal opportunities for high-performing and critical talent to strengthen retention and engagement.
  • Build a data-backed succession system for leadership and critical-role pipelines, integrating performance, potential, skills, and readiness to support business continuity and organizational agility.

About the Company

Zscaler

Secures workforce access to apps and the internet

Zscaler builds cloud security software for organizations that need to protect employees, applications and data across offices and remote locations. Its Zero Trust Exchange checks the identity and context of each connection, inspects traffic for threats and applies access rules set by security teams. Zscaler Internet Access protects web and cloud application traffic, while Zscaler Private Access connects authorized users to specific internal applications without a VPN. Organizations buy subscriptions priced primarily by the number of users and metered usage, with related support services included in the business. Zscaler was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
Founded
2007

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