Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
At Zscaler, we’re committed to ensuring that all of our customers’ data is protected and that our work complies with data protection legislation. We’re seeking a data security officer to help improve our management of potentially sensitive information, conduct regular internal security audits, and serve as the main point of contact between security, compliance, application engineering teams and data protection authorities. The ideal candidate will have excellent organizational, communication, and management skills, along with an ability to lead training sessions and workshops for staff members. In this role, the data protection officer will often be asked to independently communicate with all relevant employees to promote data protection compliance within the organization.
Objectives:
- Serve as the main point of contact within the organization for staff members, compliance, product architecture & engineering teams, regulators, and relevant public authorities on issues related to data protection
- Ensure that company policies are in compliance with codes of practice such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and other regulatory requirements
- Evaluate the existing data classification and protection framework to identify areas of no or partial compliance, and rectify any issues
- DPO also oversees the data privacy and data protection policies to ensure the operationalization of those policies through all organizational units and makes sure the organization processes personal data in a compliant way.
- Inform and advise the company, product and engineering teams and employees how to be GDPR compliant and how to comply with other data protection laws
- Provide advice regarding the data protection impact assessment and monitor its performance
- Devise training plans and provide data protection advice to staff members
- Inform and advise the data controller or data processor on all matters related to data protection
- Promote a culture of data protection and compliance across all units of the organization
Responsibilities:
- Provide expert advice and educate employees on important data compliance requirements
- Draft new and amend existing internal data protection policies, guidelines, and procedures, in consultation with key stakeholders
- Deliver training across all business units to staff members who are involved in data handling or processing
- Conduct audits to ensure compliance and to address potential issues
- Maintain records of all data processing activities of the company
- Serve as point of contact for data protection authorities
- 10+ years of overall experience with 3+ years of experience in data protection compliance or related field
- Expertise in data privacy, protection laws and practices, including deep understanding of GDPR and other data compliance requirements
- Experience in a legal, audit, or risk management role
- Demonstrated experience of being a security and data privacy/protection leader in managing and growing a data privacy and protection competency for the organization.
Skills:
- Proven ability to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues required
- Strong project management, data privacy, data protection, data classification skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to manage sensitive and confidential information
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail
- Excellent cross functional team interpersonal skills
Additional Information
The base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $230,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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What You Can Expect From Us:
- An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
- A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
- Competitive salary and benefits, including equity
Why Zscaler?
People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.
Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.
Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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. If you need support, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@zscaler.com. This email address is used specifically for accommodation requests only, and resumes, CV's, or questions other than accommodations will not be replied to or accepted.
