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# Sr. Manager, People Data Infrastructure & Platforms

- **Company:** Zscaler, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $172,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Spreadsheets, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, HR Analytics, Machine Learning, Role-Based Access Control, Power BI, Tableau (Software), Large Language Models, Snowflake, Multi-Agent Systems, Generative AI, Data Layers, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Workday
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/88964D8F82384C82811D4041FFFFEE62/job/

## About the Role

* Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
 * 8+ years of experience across People Analytics, workforce analytics, data engineering, BI, or analytics products, including 3+ years of direct people management experience leading technical and analytics talent
 * Strong technical background in modern cloud data architecture, including hands-on experience designing and operating workforce data models and pipelines on Snowflake
 * Proven track record building, scaling, or managing People Analytics platforms and tools such as Visier, Workday, Tableau, or Power BI
 * Demonstrated success improving data quality, establishing metric governance frameworks, and creating certified semantic layers in complex enterprise environments
 * Strong product mindset with demonstrated experience simplifying large reporting portfolios and transitioning organizations from manual reporting toward scalable self-service analytics

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

 * Experience architecting semantic data layers and governance frameworks specifically designed to support generative AI tools, LLMs, or autonomous agents
 * Deep expertise in workforce data privacy, role-based access controls (RBAC), and regulatory compliance within enterprise HR environments
 * Proven success leading large-scale dashboard rationalization programs that effectively retired legacy reporting and drove measurable self-service adoption

#LI-RL2 #LI-Hybrid

## Description

We are looking for a Sr. Manager, People Data Infrastructure and Platforms to join our team. This is a Hybrid role located at our Santa Clara, CA HQ or Bellevue, WA office, reporting to the VP, People & Culture AI and Data. In this role, you will lead the evolution of our workforce data ecosystem by establishing a trusted, governed data foundation and scaling intuitive analytics products across the enterprise. You will bridge technical architecture and business execution, partnering with cross-functional teams to eliminate manual reporting dependencies and enable AI-powered workforce intelligence.

What you'll do (Role Expectations)

 * Manage and scale the People data foundation across our enterprise data ecosystem, overseeing workforce data models, pipelines, and data quality on Snowflake to deliver certified, trusted workforce data
 * Establish and enforce data governance and metric certification standards, driving alignment toward single-source-of-truth definitions for core People metrics across the enterprise
 * Lead the development, delivery, and adoption of scaled workforce analytics products on platforms like Visier and Snowflake, shifting recurring reporting away from spreadsheets and into intuitive self-service experiences
 * Partner closely with People AI and technology teams to build governed data layers and semantic architectures that enable AI models and agents to reliably generate workforce insights
 * Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of data and analytics professionals, cultivating a product-oriented mindset focused on measurable usage, operational rigor, and business impact

Who You Are (Success Profile)

 * You are a pragmatic builder who balances technical excellence with rapid delivery, rolling up your sleeves to turn complex architectural concepts into reliable, production-ready data pipelines and analytics products.
 * You are data-driven and anchor your decisions in rigorous evidence, using analytics to uncover the truth, establish metric integrity, and eliminate inconsistencies across workforce data.
 * You champion simplicity by distilling complex technical architectures and sprawling reporting demands into streamlined, intuitive data products and self-service solutions.
 * You are a high-trust collaborator who communicates with clarity, candor, and respect, building strong cross-functional partnerships across People, IT, and enterprise data teams.
 * You think at scale, designing resilient data foundations, governance models, and team practices that are built to support a high-growth global organization and evolving AI capabilities.