Director, Product Architecture

SailPoint; United States; Remote; USD 167,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Disability coverage

Life insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

SailPoint is seeking a Director of Product Architecture in the United States to act as the senior technical authority for authorization across the product portfolio. This role owns the architectural vision, drives adoption, and reports to the Chief Product Officer.

It is a hands-on IC role with broad influence, shaping policy models, enforcement points, and portfolio-wide reuse of authorization capabilities.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software architecture or product architecture.
• Deep expertise in authorization, access control and identity management.
• Experience shipping enterprise security products at scale.
• Ability to align multiple teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve SailPoint’s authorization architecture and policy models.
• Set technical direction for reusable authorization capabilities across products.
• Collaborate with Engineering and PM to turn architecture into roadmaps.
• Track standards like OAuth 2.x, Cedar, OPA and decide adoption strategy.
• Produce architecture artifacts and technical narratives for executives and engineers.
• Support customer conversations with credible technical depth.

Skills

Authorization Architecture

RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC

Identity & Access Mgmt

Enterprise Security

Job description

SailPoint is defining how identity security works for humans, machines, and AI agents. As Director of Product Architecture, you will be the senior technical authority for authorization-related products across our product portfolio. You will own the architectural vision and drive its adoption across product teams. This is a hands-on IC role with company-wide influence, reporting directly to Chief Product Officer.

What you’ll do

• Define and evolve SailPoint’s authorization architecture, covering policy models, enforcement points, and delegation across the platform, for both human and agentic identities.
• Set the technical direction for how authorization capabilities are built once and reused across product teams, so customers get one coherent experience.
• Work with Engineering and Product Management to turn architecture into roadmap, and to resolve cross-team design conflicts.
• Track and shape emerging standards and protocols (OAuth 2.x, token exchange, MCP, Shared Signals/CAEP, policy languages such as Cedar and OPA) and decide where SailPoint leads and where it adopts.
• Support analyst, customer, and field conversations with credible technical depth, including CISO and CIO audiences.
• Produce clear architecture artifacts, reference designs, and technical narratives that product, engineering, and GTM teams can act on.

What you bring

• 12+ years in software architecture or product architecture, with significant depth in authorization, access control, or identity and access management.
• Strong command of authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, policy-as-code), modern identity protocols, and distributed systems design.
• Experience shipping enterprise security or identity products at scale.
• A track record of driving alignment across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Exposure to AI agent security, non-human identity, or API and gateway enforcement is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to explain complex architecture to executives, customers, and engineers alike.

Success looks like A single, well-understood authorization architecture adopted across the product teams. Faster, more consistent delivery of authorization capabilities, with less duplicated effort. SailPoint recognized by customers and analysts as a leader in authorization for the agentic era.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD): $166,800 - $281,194.00 Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

• 1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
• 3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• 4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• 5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
• 6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
• 7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
• 8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
• 9. Sick leave
• 10. Parental support: Paid parental leave
• 11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
• 12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
• 13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law. Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact [e-mail] or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.

SailPoint (Nasdaq: SAIL) is defining the new era of adaptive identity security. In a world where non-human identities now significantly outnumber humans, our AI-powered platform unifies identity, security, and data intelligence to protect today’s enterprise from advanced identity-based threats. We deliver the identity solution that spans both the breadth of identities and the depth of context needed to drive real-time access with confidence. Built on principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our SailPoint platform transforms identity from a point of vulnerability into a powerful security advantage. Trusted by many of the world's leading organizations, SailPoint secures the enterprise with intelligent, autonomous identity security. The employment policy of SailPoint is to provide equal opportunity to all persons, and it is SailPoint’s policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. It is SailPoint’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, military and/or veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. SailPoint does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities: Filing a complaint; Assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of the affirmative action provisions of Section 503, VEVRAA, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 503, VEVRAA, or their implementing regulations in this part, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; or Exercising any other right protected by section 503, VEVRAA or their implementing regulations. SailPoint will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business. SailPoint’s affirmative action program contains an audit and reporting system which enables us to measure the effectiveness of our program, indicate any need for remedial action, determine the degree to which our objectives have been attained, determine whether protected veterans and individuals with disabilities had had the opportunity to participate in company-sponsored activities, measure our compliance with the program’s specific obligations, and document actions taken to comply with these obligations.