Partner Sales Director, GSI

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.

Role

We are looking for a Partner Sales Director, GSI to join our WW Alliances & Channels department. This role is a hybrid position based in Bangalore, reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Alliance Partners.

Zscaler is looking for a Partner Business Manager to lead the strategic expansion of our platform within our Global System Integrator (GSI) ecosystem. This is a high-impact, "builder" role that requires a unique blend of technical depth, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence large, complex organizations. You will be responsible for architecting the technical and business value proposition that allows GSIs to wrap their services around Zscaler, ensuring that Zscaler remains the definitive security anchor for their multi-million dollar digital transformation projects.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Drive the commercial sales strategy and "Go-to-Market" approach for the Zscaler product suite through our GSI partners in India, identifying high-potential teams and collaborating on complex, large-scale cloud security migrations

Lead the engagement cycle with GSI partners, translating Zscaler’s technical capabilities into quantifiable business outcomes, ROI models, and managed service pricing structures that resonate with stakeholders and global end-customers

Act as the bridge between technical architects and commercial sales teams to structure complex proposals for multi-year, multi-tower outsourcing deals, ensuring Zscaler is integrated into standard reference architectures

Oversee the technical Proof of Value (PoV) p