Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform
Vanta
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $221,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the IAM product vision and roadmap, setting direction for authentication, authorization, user modeling, and ownership frameworks in close partnership with engineering leadership
- Drive the User Model split to completion — separating IAM Users (auth/permissions) from Personnel Records (GRC/compliance) in a complex, cross-team data migration with org-wide impact
- Define Ownership 3.0 — chart the path from binary object-level ownership to customer-customizable, role-based permissions that serve both startups and large enterprises
- Shape Vanta's authorization strategy proactively, ensuring product teams build on shared platform capabilities rather than ad hoc permission solutions
- Contribute to multi-tenant access architecture, enabling seamless cross-domain experiences for auditors, MSPs, and multi-workspace enterprise customers
- Navigate complex cross-team dependencies across GRC, Trust, Collaboration, and PEX — all of which have authorization needs that this role must harmonize
- Partner deeply with engineering and technical domain experts to balance enterprise complexity with comprehensibility for smaller customers
- Translate technical IAM concepts into clear business value for leadership, GTM teams, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
Requirements
- 8-12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3-4 years at a Staff/Senior level in platform or infrastructure roles
- Enterprise platform PM experience: you've worked on permissions, RBAC, multi-tenancy, or identity systems at scale in B2B SaaS
- Systems thinking: you can reason about how authentication, authorization, and identity interconnect and affect every product surface — and explain it simply
- Strong cross-functional collaboration: this role touches every team at Vanta and requires building consensus across Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM
- Storytelling for technical concepts: you can explain why an authorization architecture decision matters to non-technical stakeholders and translate complex IAM concepts into clear business value
- Customer empathy at multiple scales: you understand that a 10-person startup and a federal agency have vastly different permission needs, and can design systems that serve both
- Comfort with ambiguity: you've navigated complex platform problems with many open design questions and competing stakeholder needs
- Nice to have: Experience with policy engines (Oso, OPA, Cedar) or authorization architecture patterns
- Nice to have: Background in GRC, compliance, or security-adjacent products
- Nice to have: Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architectures
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementpermissionsRBACmulti-tenancyidentity systemsauthorization architecturedata migrationsystems thinkingpolicy enginesGRC
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationstorytellingcustomer empathycomfort with ambiguitycuriositywillingness to learnsound judgment