Identity Solutions Manager

TKO; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Identity Solutions Manager at TKO leads IAM initiatives across UFC, WWE, IMG, PBR, OLE, and related brands. You will translate complex IAM concepts for business stakeholders and drive adoption of SSO, automated provisioning, and access governance across the portfolio.

You will coordinate roadmap governance with Identity Engineering, Security, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business partners, balancing priorities and ensuring on-time delivery of high-value initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary business-facing liaison for Identity Engineering, conducting discovery sessions to capture requirements and translate them into actionable identity system specifications
• Act as an internal evangelist for TKO's Okta-based IAM capabilities, educating business teams across the portfolio on what's possible and driving adoption of SSO, automated provisioning, and access governance features
• Own business-facing roadmap communication, ensuring stakeholders understand what's coming, why it matters, and how it benefits them
• Be the voice of the business inside Identity Engineering, advocating for requirements, influencing prioritization, and ensuring engineering effort stays aligned to business value
• Manage governance intake requests, maintain and prioritize the program backlog, and ensure Identity Engineering is consistently focused on the highest-value initiatives
• Coordinate and drive execution of the SOX Application Lifecycle Governance Program, including application onboarding, ownership validation, access request processes, and user access reviews

Job description

The Identity Solutions Manager is TKO's business-facing leader for Identity and Access Management. This is the person who makes modern identity real and relevant across UFC, WWE, IMG, PBR, OLE, and the broader portfolio. They translate complex IAM concepts into outcomes that non-technical stakeholders can appreciate, support, and act on, and they build the internal credibility that turns business teams from passive recipients of identity changes into active advocates for them.

As the primary advocate for modern identity at TKO, they will serve as the connective tissue across three layers simultaneously:

• Capturing, prioritizing, and maintaining business requirements in a structured engineering backlog
• Partnering with Identity Architects to shape and communicate our IAM/Okta roadmap
• Ensuring operational readiness with Helpdesk frontline support so they are always informed and ready for what comes next.

The Identity Solutions Manager will be the spearhead of TKO’s IAM strategy, coordinating multiple Identity Automation and Lifecycle Programs, balancing competing demands, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring engineering investment is focused on TKO’s highest-value strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary business-facing liaison for Identity Engineering, conducting discovery sessions to capture requirements and translate them into actionable identity system specifications
• Act as an internal evangelist for TKO's Okta-based IAM capabilities, educating business teams across the portfolio on what's possible and driving adoption of SSO, automated provisioning, and access governance features
• Own business-facing roadmap communication, ensuring stakeholders understand what's coming, why it matters, and how it benefits them
• Be the voice of the business inside Identity Engineering, advocating for requirements, influencing prioritization, and ensuring engineering effort stays aligned to business value
• Manage governance intake requests, maintain and prioritize the program backlog, and ensure Identity Engineering is consistently focused on the highest-value initiatives
• Coordinate and drive execution of the SOX Application Lifecycle Governance Program, including application onboarding, ownership validation, access request processes, and user access reviews
• Partner with Identity Engineering, Security, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to deliver governance initiatives on time and in scope
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and blockers; develop mitigation plans and escalati… (truncated for brevity)