Sr Lead IAM Products, Automation & Identity Platforms

Primary Responsibilities

IAM Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and maintain the multi-year IAM product strategy and modernization roadmap.
• Establish target-state capabilities for workforce IAM, client IAM, privileged access, authorization, machine identities, and identity intelligence.
• Partner with cybersecurity leadership to align IAM capabilities with regulatory requirements, risk management objectives, and business priorities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve IAM capabilities.
• Create business cases, investment proposals, and strategic recommendations for IAM modernization initiatives.

Product Ownership & Capability Management

• Serve as the product owner for one or more strategic IAM platforms and services.
• Define product vision, objectives, roadmaps, and prioritized backlogs.
• Translate business, regulatory, security, and operational requirements into executable product capabilities.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure successful delivery of roadmap commitments.
• Define adoption targets, value realization metrics, and product success criteria.

Automation & Engineering Enablement

• Lead the IAM automation strategy across identity lifecycle management, access governance, certification, auditing, privileged access, authorization, and security operations.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processing through workflow automation, orchestration, self-service capabilities, and intelligent controls.
• Drive adoption of automation platforms, governance workflows, and low-code/no-code orchestration capabilities.
• Partner with engineering teams to streamline onboarding, access requests, certifications, JML processes, and control execution.
• Develop automation strategies supporting workforce, client, machine, and AI-driven identities.
• Leverage tools such as Tines, Copilot, and AI Agents to improve operational efficiency and user experience.
• Create resilient, always-on automation capabilities to provide near 24x7 operational support and increase team productivity.

Identity Governance & Operational Excellence

• Establish measurable KPIs, KCIs, and KRIs for IAM products and services.
• Drive continual improvement of operational processes and user experience.
• Partner with operations teams to improve service reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Develop reporting, dashboards, and executive reporting packages.
• Ensure IAM capabilities maintain strong control effectiveness and audit readiness.

Strategic Programs & Transformation

• Lead automation of strategic modernization initiatives involving:
• Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Authentication Modernization
• Authorization Modernization
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Fine-Grained Authorization
• Machine Identity Governance
• Agent and AI Identity Governance
• SaaS Security Integration
• Identity Intelligence & Risk Analytics
• Coordinate across engineering, architecture, risk, cybersecurity, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure successful execution.

Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment

• Ensure IAM products align with enterprise standards, policies, and regulatory expectations.
• Support audits, examinations, and control reviews.
• Partner with Risk, Audit, Architecture, and Security organizations to define and maintain control requirements.
• Translate regulatory requirements into roadmap priorities and product capabilities.
• Maintain accountability for delivery of risk-reducing capabilities and control improvements.

Areas of Accountability

• IAM Product Portfolio Management
• IAM Strategy & Roadmaps
• Identity Governance Platforms
• Privileged Access Platforms
• Authentication & Authorization Products
• IAM Automation & Workflow Orchestration
• RBAC & Access Governance
• Identity Analytics & Reporting
• Machine Identity Governance
• AI & Agent Identity Governance
• IAM Metrics, KPIs, KCIs & KRIs
• Regulatory & Audit Readiness
• Continuous Improvement Programs

Required Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management, Cybersecurity, Product Management, Security Engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 3+ years leading strategic technology initiatives, product portfolios, or transformation programs.
• Experience with IAM platforms such as Saviynt, Okta, Entra ID, CyberArk, SailPoint, Ping, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of IAM disciplines including:
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Identity Governance
• Access Lifecycle Management
• RBAC
• OAuth/OIDC
• SAML
• MFA
• PAM
• Machine Identities
• Experience with automation and workflow platforms.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks including NIST, FFIEC, ISO 27001, NYDFS, and related financial services requirements.

Success Measures

• Successful delivery of IAM strategic roadmap objectives.
• Increased automation and reduction of manual IAM processes.
• Improved control effectiveness and regulatory readiness.
• Reduced operational risk and technical debt.
• Enhanced user and administrator experience.
• Increased adoption of IAM automation solutions, AI agents, Copilot use cases, and workflow platforms such as Tines.
• Increased operational resiliency through near 24x7 automated IAM capabilities.
• Quantifiable improvements in IAM KPIs, KCIs, and KRIs.
• Establishment of a scalable and sustainable identity control plane supporting workforce, client, machine, and AI identities.