Position: Sr. Technical Project Manager

Location: San Jose, CA

** US Citizenship is required **
For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,500 companies and 100 Million threats detected a day.

We work in a fast paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrive on being the first to solve problems. We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

The Senior Technical Project Manager will drive and manage R&D project planning and tracking, proactively engage team members to resolve blockers, participate and drive Agile scrums, track time sensitive customer deliverables from requirements to delivery, track and report progress, schedule variances and issues status, and work with managers and team members in ensuring timely delivery of committed features and enhancements. This position requires software engineering background to comprehend Zscaler technology and technical aspects of the project.

Responsibilities

• Work with Engineering owner to put together a project plan - resource plan and development schedule
• Perform day to day project management and scrum master duties for assigned projects
• Track project progress against plan and report progress, variances and issues status
• Facilitate and coach Scrum team on Agile Scrum practice, remove impediments, reconcile differences
• Track blocking issues, work with managers and Engineering owner on mitigation plan
• Track over all major Release progress to include multiple concurrent projects in development
• Track and schedule regular grooming and prioritization of product line backlogs
• Track project/sprint progress in Jira and MS Project

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience in a technical or project manager role within an R&D environment
• 3+ years of Agile practice experience with technology projects
• Experience with Agile methodologies/Tools and Lean thinking
• Experience with SDLC at a SaaS product development team including CI/CD principles
• Expert knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Google Docs, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Power Point and Excel
• Ability to work in a fast-paced with a multi-site global and diverse team
• Must be able to lead project meetings in a matrix project environment. Must be comfortable with mitigating team conflict and resolving communication or other problems within the project team
• Must be resourceful and seek solutions through stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration in driving consensus
• Education – Bachelor's degree in Sciences is preferred

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.

Learn more at zscaler.com or follow us on Twitter @zscaler. Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ : ZS ) is available at http://www.zscaler.com. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
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