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Senior Director, Head of Cybersecurity & Privacy Legal
Role at a glance
- Category
- Privacy
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary range
- $231,000
- Posted
- Jun 20, 2026
Zscaler is hiring a Senior Director, Head of Cybersecurity & Privacy Legal in Remote. This is a Privacy role in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $231,000. Review the full details below and apply directly with Zscaler.
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, strong 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 strong 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 strong 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. We are looking for a Senior Director, Head of Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal to lead our global data security and privacy legal function. Reporting directly to the Deputy General Counsel for Commercial Legal, you will be the primary legal architect for how we protect data across the entire Zscaler platform. This role is ideally Hybrid out of our San Jose, CA Headquarters, but can be fully remote for the right candidate. This is a high-impact senior leadership role where you will develop and execute a global legal strategy for cybersecurity, data security and privacy that aligns with Zscaler’s rapid growth and product innovation. You will be a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the organization, including the executive team and board of directors. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) As a key partner to our Security, Compliance, IT, and other internal teams, you will Provide expert guidance on a wide range of data security, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance matters, ensuring that legal requirements are integrated seamlessly
Full responsibilities and requirements are on Zscaler's application page.
Apply for this role →Location and market context
This is a remote privacy role, so it draws from a national talent pool rather than a single metro. Remote governance and compliance roles reward candidates who can show they work effectively across time zones and distributed legal, security, and product teams. Confirm any residency, travel, or occasional-onsite expectations directly with Zscaler.
About privacy roles
Privacy roles protect personal data across its lifecycle, from data mapping and DPIAs to individual-rights handling. AI systems are widening the scope of what privacy teams must review. Roles like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices.
How to position yourself for this privacy role
Strong candidates emphasize data mapping and inventories, privacy impact assessments, rights handling, and building privacy-by-design into products and AI systems. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Zscaler would apply GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.
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