Proposal Manager (Contract Position Only)

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Company Description

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.

Job Description

Proposal Manager (9 Month Contract Position)

You will work with sales teams, technical marketing engineers, product managers, and technical writers to manage responses to RFPs, RFIs, security assessments, and other pre-sales questionnaires. You will be responsible for maintaining the database, coordinating with the sales team, and producing the final responses. You will also help build the team, train stakeholders, and both define and refine processes.

To do this you will build strong working relationships with the sales teams, local SMEs, and writing peers. You can draw responses from our database, but you will also track down additional information when requested. The responses must be consistent and high quality, as they represent Zscaler to our customers. You must thrive in a necessarily deadline-driven environment.

Qualifications

What you will do:

In your role, you will be responsible for:

Managing responses, maintaining the database, coordinating answers, and researching additional answers

Work cross-functionally with SMEs in the Engineering, Field Support, Sales, Training, Compliance, and Product Management groups

Maintain both consistency and very high quality

Assist in defining standards, style, and terminology

Your background:

5+ years of experience in proposal writing or technical writing

Bachelor s degree in technical writing, journalism, communications, or a related field

Excellent oral, written, analytic, and organizational skills

Detail orientated, and able to think and write in context with the target reader or operator

Self-motivated and effective in a fluid environment

Able to work independently and as part of a team

Highly desirable:

Experience writing about network security products

Experience writing about web-based and mobile products

Experience using proposal management software

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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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 an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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