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Zscaler is hiring a Senior Account Executive focused on AI Security for its Tokyo-based Japan team. This full-cycle enterprise sales role combines new-logo acquisition, account management, strategic prospecting, qualification, executive engagement, and project closing. The AE will position Zscaler’s AI security platform to CISOs, AI engineers, and security leaders, partnering closely with Sales Engineers and sharing market feedback with product and marketing teams. Candidates need at least five years of software or security sales experience, consultative selling capability, MEDDIC familiarity, and strong knowledge of AI, generative AI, or cybersecurity. The role emphasizes high activity, urgency, ownership, technical credibility, and long-term customer relationship building.
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I would begin by segmenting target accounts by AI adoption maturity, sensitive-data exposure, regulatory pressure, and existing security architecture. I would map CISOs, security architects, AI leaders, and business sponsors, then use tailored outreach tied to concrete AI-security risks and outcomes. I would maintain a disciplined cadence across calls, email, events, partners, and referrals, while qualifying early using MEDDIC.
I frame the discussion around business enablement rather than product features: helping the organization adopt AI faster while protecting data, reducing cyber risk, and meeting governance obligations. I quantify the impact of risks such as data leakage, unmanaged AI use, and inconsistent controls, then connect the solution to measurable outcomes such as visibility, policy enforcement, and lower operational risk.
I use MEDDIC to establish measurable business impact, identify the economic buyer, document decision criteria and process, understand the customer’s pain, locate an internal champion, and assess competitive position. This creates a mutual action plan based on verified customer facts rather than optimism and helps prioritize deals with a credible path to close.
I would align with the Sales Engineer before discovery on stakeholder roles, business hypotheses, technical validation goals, and next steps. During the process, I would lead the commercial and strategic conversation while enabling the Sales Engineer to validate architecture, integrations, and security capabilities. Afterwards, we would jointly document gaps, risks, success criteria, and the action plan for the customer.
I would acknowledge their existing investment and explore how those controls perform specifically for AI adoption, cloud access, data protection, and evolving threats. Through targeted discovery, I would identify whether there are gaps in visibility, policy consistency, user experience, or operational complexity. I would then position Zscaler only where it can produce a differentiated, measurable outcome rather than forcing a generic replacement conversation.
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.
The Team
The Zscaler Sales and Go-to-Market team is a global group of professionals who are passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and sharing their expertise to guide a secure, cloud-enabled digital future and further cement our position as the world leader in cloud security. Sales, Customer Success, Sales Enablement, Solution Architects, Business Development, Transformation, and Technology Partnerships all work together to demonstrate the power and agility of Zscaler cloud transformation to the world.
The Role
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Account Executive (AE) – AI Security to join our Japan based team based in Tokyo to help accelerate growth in the highly competitive world of AI cybersecurity. This is both a customer acquisition and customer management role that combines communication skills, a consultative approach, and business / sales expertise to demonstrate the value of our platform from discovery calls closing projects.
As a Sr. AE, you will speak with dozens of new people every week including CISOs, AI development engineers, and security leaders. You will strive to form lasting customer relationships with the goal of building champions of Zscaler for years to come. You’ll also channel customer insights back into Zscaler’s product roadmap and marketing, helping us continuously push the frontier of AI security.
What You’ll Do
- Strategic prospecting and driving GTM motion: Research and prospect into organizations using email, calls, networking, and other creative methods to guide early-stage pipeline development.
- Lead qualification: Penetrate, profile, qualify, and schedule well-qualified appointments with key decision-makers within targeted companies.
- Activity Goals: You will exceed daily and weekly activity goals, delivering a high quantity of well-qualified sales opportunities.
- Articulating our value proposition in AI Security: To assess buying interest, you will articulate our value proposition to decision makers across multiple industries.
- Technical Understanding: You will attain a deep understanding and demonstrate Zscaler tech solutions to prospective clients about AI Security.
- Work closely with Sales Engineers in the sales process with potential prospects and customers.
- Research and Education: You will research customers, identify decision-makers, educate prospects, and qualify buying interest.
- Develop business value propositions based on customer situations and Zscaler offerings.
- Communicate customer needs and objections to product and marketing teams.
- Represent Zscaler at conferences and trade shows including booth work and networking sessions.
- Maintain awareness of competitors and their products that compete against Zscaler products.
Who You Are (Minimum Qualifications)
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
- Experienced in customer-facing GTM roles, ideally within cybersecurity or GenAI environments.
- Knowledgeable in Generative AI, cybersecurity, or adjacent technical domains.
- Skilled communicator, equally comfortable in c level meetings and executive briefings.
- Strong problem-solver with a track record of resolving AI and business-related problems.
- Experience with the MEDDIC sales methodology.
- 5+ years of full sales cycle experience within software or security industry.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education.
Why Join Zscaler?
- Be part of the defining security challenge of our era: enabling safe AI adoption at enterprise scale.
- Help shape the AI security category at a pivotal moment of growth.
- Work with world-class red teamers, engineers, and security leaders.
- Remote-first flexibility, with opportunities for travel and event representation.
- Direct impact: your work directly shapes outcomes for Fortune 500 enterprises and beyond.
At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.
Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Learn more about Zscaler’s hybrid working model and benefits here.
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link.
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