# Senior Director, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance

**Company**: Zscaler
**Location**: Santa Clara, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,000-$310,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.

We are looking for a Senior Director, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance to join our team.

**Role Expectations**

- Architect the Financial Narrative: Partner with the SVP and cross-functional team to author and refine a compelling narrative highlighting our company strategy, platform value, and operational growth levers.

- Drive Outbound IR: Manage and cultivate high-trust relationships with sell-side analysts and institutional investors.

- Drive Global Investor Targeting: Identify and build relationships with prospective institutional shareholders.

- Deliver High-Impact Investor-Facing Events: Collaborate on design and execution of investor events.

- Develop a Strong Feedback Loop: Deliver real-time investor sentiment and feedback to executives.

- Cross-Functional Strategic Finance: Support high-impact corporate development and strategic finance initiatives.

**Success Profile**

- Adapt to ambiguity and build the path as you walk it.

- Be customer-obsessed and build deep empathy for internal and external customers.

- Operate with urgency and deliver high-impact results quickly.

- Be a high-trust collaborator and ambitious for the team.

- Be data-driven and use data and analytics to guide informed decisions.

- Be driven by innovation and have a deep curiosity for how things work.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience positioning AI-driven product pipelines.

- 12+ years of relevant experience combining Investment Banking or Sell-Side Research with in-house Investor Relations.

- Cybersecurity & SaaS Fluency: Strong understanding of cybersecurity architectures, cloud infrastructure, and subscription-based financial models.

- Advanced Valuation & Modeling Depth: Strong financial modeling skills with the capability to confidently discuss valuation frameworks and capital allocation strategies.

- Academic Foundation and interest in markets: BA/BS in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Established Wall Street Network: Existing, high-trust relationships with cybersecurity, software, or infrastructure analysts and buy-side portfolio managers.

- Credentials: CFA designation.

- Predictive AI for IR: Experience leveraging predictive AI, advanced sentiment analysis tools, or quantitative modeling to optimize investor targeting.

**Benefits**

- Various health plans

- Time off plans for vacation and sick time

- Parental leave options

- Retirement options

- Education reimbursement

- In-office perks, and more!

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML technologies
- Investment Banking
- Sell-Side Research
- Investor Relations
- Cybersecurity
- SaaS
- Financial modeling
- Valuation frameworks

### Nice to have
- Predictive AI
- Advanced sentiment analysis tools
- Quantitative modeling
- CFA designation

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