About this role
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're looking for a Specialist Solutions Architect - OT to join our field Speclialist team. This is a key individual contributor within Zscaler's specialty go-to-market organization, responsible for driving customer-facing technical engagements across OT and industrial security environments globally. The role spans Zscaler's OT-relevant technology portfolio - Zero Trust Branch, deception, Privileged Remote Access, and Zscaler Cellular - and combines two jobs in one: the business owner who builds and develops a territory of demand, and the high-level architect who designs the target state. This role owns engagements end to end: generating demand from a defined target account base, leading consultative first meetings and in-depth architecture workshops, contributing to Proof of Value design, and feeding structured field evidence back to product and sales teams to advance Zscaler's OT security solution.
What You'll Do (Role Expectations)
• Generate and develop OT demand. Work from a scored target account list, customer advisory boards, industry events, and structured outbound, converting first meetings into in-depth architecture workshops.
• Own the solution across the OT portfolio and lead target-state design. Architect across Zero Trust Branch (ZTB), deception, Privileged Remote Access (PRA), and Zscaler Cellular - selecting and combining capabilities against the customer's environment rather than leading with a single product. Align designs to ISA/IEC 62443 and the Purdue Model, integrating ZIA, ZPA, and ZDX where relevant, and positio