[Remote] Senior Product Manager (AI / Data Classification)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure agility, efficiency, resilience, and security for its customers. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager (AI / Data Classification) to lead data classification capabilities within their Data Security platform, focusing on discovering and classifying sensitive data across various environments.ResponsibilitiesPartner closely with a focused engineering, data science/ML, design, sales, and customer success to deliver accurate, scalable classification, clear policy outcomes, and measurable customer valueOwn the classification taxonomy, labeling standards, and policy model (custom categories, confidence thresholds, inheritance, overrides, exceptions)Drive accuracy improvements by managing precision/recall targets, sampling strategies, tuning workflows, and customer feedback loopsSet requirements for scanning at enterprise scale (billions of objects, large tables), optimizing cost, latency, and coverageDefine how the platform combines pattern-based detectors, NLP/ML, and LLM-assisted classification for structured and unstructured dataSkillsProduct Management experience, with meaningful ownership of data security/privacy products. Product management experience can be substituted with data science experienceDemonstrated experience shipping products that use AI/ML and/or LLMs in production, with a strong understanding of data classification approaches across structured and unstructured dataExpertise in evaluation and quality measurement for classification systems and building/maintaining golden datasetsAbility to design human-in-the-loop workflows for high-stakes labels, covering review/approval, exception handling, and audit trailsExperience driving cost/performance tradeoffs for AI at scale, including token/compute budgeting, model selection, and managing latency for large corporationsStrong technical collaboration skills with ML engineering and data scienceFamiliarity with embedding-based similarity and semantic retrieval for classification and deduping (vector DBs, ANN indexing, chunking strategies)Prior work in DSPM/DLP/CASB/insider risk where false negatives have high blast radius and you have designed processes to manage that riskBenefitsVarious health plansTime off plans for vacation and sick timeParental leave optionsRetirement optionsEducation reimbursementIn-office perks, and more!Company OverviewZscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.zscaler.com.Company H1B SponsorshipZscaler has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 19 in 2026, 164 in 2025, 220 in 2024, 108 in 2023, 144 in 2022, 82 in 2021, 51 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.