Sales Engineering Manager

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. We are looking for a Sales Engineering Manager - UAE to join our team. This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Sales Engineering Director in the Solutions Consulting department. You will work to define and drive the regional technical-win strategy in partnership with Sales leadership, ensuring consistent, high-quality pre-sales execution across priority accounts. By leading and developing a team of Sales Engineers, you will orchestrate cross-functional partners to deliver customer outcomes, influence product direction through structured field feedback, and standardize repeatable pre-sales plays and solution frameworks to accelerate deals and long-term adoption. What you ll do (Role Expectations) Own the end-to-end pre-sales motion and ensure the Sales Engineering team delivers consistently high-quality, value-based customer engagements that accelerate pipeline and close outcomes Build a high-performing, engaged SE team through coaching and 1:1s, with clear development plans, continuous feedback, mentoring, and defined career progression Partner with customers across markets to deliver network, security, and application access transformation with Zscaler, while serving as their trusted voice to influence product direction internally Who You Are (Success Profile) You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful. You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution. You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact. You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust. You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose. What We re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications) Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain 8+ years enterprise pre-sales / solutions engineering experience (security, networking, cloud, or SaaS) across complex, multi-stakeholder deals 2+ years leading and developing Sales Engineers (hiring, coaching, performance, career growth) Proven ability to run the regional pre-sales motion: pipeline support, deal strategy, and forecasting partnership with Sales Strong executive customer leadership and a deep security/networking foundation (e.g., Zero Trust, identity, secure connectivity, cloud security) with strong cross-functional collaboration and willingness to travel What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

enabling pre-sales teams to position AI-powered threat detection, automated policy generation, or AI-driven security analytics to maximize customer value Proven experience leading enterprise security/cloud pre-sales teams in a high-growth SaaS environment (multi-country/multi-market a plus) Demonstrated ability to scale and develop an SE organization (hiring, onboarding, enablement, repeatable plays, career frameworks)