Senior Manager, Identity Security & Access Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the team dedicated to identity security and access management, encompassing IAM engineering, governance, and architecture.

• Take ownership of the IAM program strategy, including roadmap development, prioritization, budget planning, metrics, and reporting.

• Establish and uphold IAM policies, security standards, reference architectures, and best practice guidelines for workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities.

• Provide guidance and support for phishing-resistant authentication, passkeys, risk-based authentication, privileged access management (PAM), and just-in-time services.

• Direct the identity governance and administration strategy, which includes access review frameworks, evidence automation, remediation tracking, and control maturity.

• Develop and enhance governance for service accounts, API keys, bots, automation accounts, workload identities, and AI agents.

• Lead efforts to reduce identity risk and manage posture across traditional systems, SaaS, cloud, and modern application infrastructure.

• Create, build, and maintain technology patterns, integrations, and automation frameworks for contextual authentication, authorization, and scalable access governance.

• Collaborate with IT Infrastructure and IT Operations teams managing Okta, Active Directory, and Azure AD / Entra ID.

• Work with technical and business stakeholders on the enterprise identity security solutions roadmap.

• Oversee IAM technology vendors, including implementation planning, product roadmap alignment, support escalation, and service quality assurance.

• Track IAM and identity security best practices, IT trends, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Partner with internal teams to enhance security maturity and contribute to the information security culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, or security architecture.

• More than 5 years of experience with various authentication and authorization solutions, directory platforms, identity governance, privileged access, or related identity security technologies.

• At least 3 years of management or team leadership experience.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor, develop, and grow a team.

• Experience in managing technology vendors, implementation planning, and product roadmaps.

• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, role-based access, attribute-based access, least privilege, segregation of duties, entitlement management, and identity lifecycle concepts.

• Familiarity with Active Directory, Azure AD / Entra ID, Okta, LDAP, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), PAM, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), risk-based authentication, and passkeys.

• Experience in IAM governance, user access review frameworks, control design, evidence automation, compliance partnership, and remediation tracking.

• Working knowledge of identity security risk, posture management, cloud entitlement management, Zero Trust concepts, and governance for machine identities and AI agents.

• Capability to collaborate with infrastructure, operations, application, cloud, and business teams.

• Proficiency in managing program roadmaps, budget input, technology evaluations, vendor relationships, implementation oversight, and stakeholder expectations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong work ethic with a keen attention to detail.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plans with company matching.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.