This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager based in the United States.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of a large-scale product ecosystem by defining the strategy and evolution of critical platform capabilities.
You will lead the vision for identity and access management solutions that enable secure, seamless, and scalable experiences across multiple products.
Working at the intersection of product, engineering, security, data, and architecture, you will influence key technology decisions and long-term platform direction.
The position requires strong strategic thinking, technical understanding, and the ability to translate complex challenges into impactful product outcomes.
You will help modernize existing systems, improve interoperability, and create foundations that support innovation across the organization.
This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful technology initiatives while working in a collaborative, inclusive, and globally distributed environment.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager based in the United States.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of a large-scale product ecosystem by defining the strategy and evolution of critical platform capabilities.
You will lead the vision for identity and access management solutions that enable secure, seamless, and scalable experiences across multiple products.
Working at the intersection of product, engineering, security, data, and architecture, you will influence key technology decisions and long-term platform direction.
The position requires strong strategic thinking, technical understanding, and the ability to translate complex challenges into impactful product outcomes.
You will help modernize existing systems, improve interoperability, and create foundations that support innovation across the organization.
This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful technology initiatives while working in a collaborative, inclusive, and globally distributed environment.
Accountabilities:
- Defining and maintaining the long-term product vision and roadmap for identity and access capabilities across a complex technology ecosystem.
- Making prioritization decisions based on customer impact, business outcomes, technical feasibility, platform scalability, and data-driven insights.
- Leading the transition from fragmented legacy identity solutions toward a unified and scalable platform foundation.
- Developing migration strategies and adoption plans to support platform modernization initiatives.
- Partnering closely with engineering, architecture, security, and data teams to evaluate technical trade-offs and ensure reliable, secure solutions.
- Designing platform capabilities, interfaces, and self-service experiences that support internal teams and external users.
- Translating strategic goals into measurable outcomes, delivery plans, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Supporting authentication, authorization, interoperability, and industry standards to ensure secure and flexible platform operations.
- Collaborating with analytics and AI teams to unlock cross-product insights and future platform opportunities.
- Aligning stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Commercial teams through effective communication and influence.
- Contributing to product management best practices and helping strengthen platform product capabilities across the organization.
- 5+ years of product management experience, with ownership of platform, infrastructure, or highly technical products.
- Proven experience defining product strategies and roadmaps for complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and platform architecture concepts.
- Experience building products, services, or capabilities used by internal teams, developers, or external customers.
- Ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, scalability, security, and business priorities when making product decisions.
- Experience influencing engineering, architecture, security, data, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve product research, analysis, prioritization, and execution.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience defining success metrics and measuring product impact.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management concepts such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, RBAC, and multi-tenancy.
- Background working with education technology or software platforms.
- Familiarity with education data and rostering standards such as OneRoster, Clever, ClassLink, Feide, Skolon, or UniLogin.
- Experience leading platform consolidation, modernization, migration, or post-acquisition integration projects.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and architecture patterns, ideally within AWS environments.
- Experience working with analytics platforms, customer data systems, or modern data architectures.
- Understanding of privacy and compliance requirements such as GDPR, FERPA, or COPPA.
- Experience mentoring product managers or contributing to product operating models.
- Competitive salary package with bonus opportunities.
- Flexible work schedules designed to support work-life balance.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
- Flexible time-off policies.
- Opportunities for career development, learning, and professional growth.
- Collaborative and innovative culture where ideas and contributions are valued.
- Opportunity to work on meaningful technology initiatives with global impact.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will define product strategy, drive platform innovation, and enable teams to deliver scalable solutions that create long-term value. You will be responsible for:
Requirements:
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience managing complex technical products and the ability to operate effectively across business and engineering environments. You should have:
Preferred qualifications include: