Principal Analytics Business Partner

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. Role We are looking for a Principal Analytics Business Partner - Customer Success to join our team. This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Director, Business Intelligence in the Customer Success Organization department. At Zscaler, our Customer Success Organization is a global, customer-focused team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer outcomes through data, analytics, and operational excellence. We partner with business leaders to transform data into actionable intelligence that improves decision-making, drives customer value, and enables scalable business growth. In this role, you will serve as a strategic partner to Customer Success leadership, helping define business priorities, frame complex problems, and translate them into scalable analytics and intelligence solutions while collaborating closely with business leaders, Analytics Engineering, and Business Intelligence teams to support the evolving needs of Customer Success. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Lead strategic business partnerships: Build trusted relationships with Customer Success leaders to understand business priorities, identify opportunities, and proactively shape analytics initiatives that deliver measurable business value Drive analytical strategy and prioritization: Define problem statements, establish success criteria, and prioritize analytics initiatives based on business impact, balancing immediate needs with long-term scalable solutions Translate data into business decisions: Deliver clear, actionable insights that explain what is happening, why it matters, and what actions should be considered, enabling leaders to make informed decisions with confidence Lead cross-functional execution: Partner with Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure analytical solutions are aligned, scalable, and successfully adopted across Customer Success Advance analytical maturity: Continuously improve KPI definitions, analytical methodologies, and reusable business frameworks while identifying opportunities to leverage automation and emerging AI capabilities to improve decision-making Who You Are (Success Profile) You are data-driven. You use data and analytics to find the truth, measure what matters, and guide informed decisions. You value evidence over assumptions, replacing "I think" with "I know" to drive better outcomes. 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 bu…