Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - DoW

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 an experienced Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - DoW to join our Technology Risk & Compliance team. This role offers the flexibility to work remotely within the United States, with a preference for candidates near our Washington, DC Metro Area office for a hybrid schedule, reporting to the Director of Technology Compliance.

Your work will directly influence business strategy by ensuring compliance activities are integrated into broader business processes and initiatives while supporting our mission as a global cloud security leader.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Maintain DoW IL5 authorizations and drive the strategy to expand into classified IL6 environments through strong continuous monitoring

Lead RMF accreditation/authorization activities (SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs) and manage the significant change process with security impact and risk assessments

Implement and operationalize sustainable GRC controls, policies, standards, and procedures aligned to DoW SRG, CNSSI 1253, and DISA STIGs; partner cross-functionally to remediate findings and improve security posture

Oversee secure architecture and assurance (e.g., threat modeling, penetration testing/red teaming) and ensure audit/assessment readiness

Support incident response and reporting, lead tabletop exercises, and drive continuous improvement; serve as the primary liaison to AOs/government stakeholders/assessors and build a distributed IA team aligned to business and mission objectives

Who You Are (Success Profile)

You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfort