Identity Strategy Lead for Platform Modernization

The Cigna Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, dental benefits

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Product Strategy Senior Advisor – Identity Strategy & Innovation to provide strategic counsel and product leadership for the enterprise Identity platform. You will shape its strategy, roadmap, and innovation agenda across identity modernization, secure access, authentication, fraud prevention, identity proofing, delegation, and AI-aware identity capabilities.

You will translate complex business, security, and technical needs into clear product strategies, drive

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Strategy/Management, Identity & Access Management, digital platforms, security technology, or related fields.
• Experience developing enterprise product strategies, roadmaps, investment narratives, and executive recommendations.
• Hands-on familiarity with identity capabilities (registration, login, MFA, passkeys, account recovery, proofing, fraud controls, federation, SSO, delegated access).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization without direct authority, translating business, security, and technical.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior leadership on identity platform strategy and modernization priorities.
• Develop and recommend the identity roadmap and capability prioritization across authentication, access, registration, identity proofing, trusted devices, fraud posture, and delegation.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, security, and digital product teams to keep solutions scalable, resilient, and aligned to enterprise standards; support ongoing federation and SSO modernization and scalable access governance.
• Lead pilots, value-proposition development, and measurement of success for identity capabilities supporting future-state care, pharmacy, and agentic engagement—surfacing governance, consent, and policy decisions that require leadership alignment.
• Translate complex business, security, and technical needs into clear product strategies, roadmap recommendations, and executive narratives.

Skills

Identity strategy

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder influence

Tools

OAuth/OIDC

SAML

Identity federation

Adaptive authentication

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Product Strategy Senior Advisor – Identity Strategy & Innovation to provide strategic counsel and product leadership for the enterprise Identity platform. You will shape its strategy, roadmap, and innovation agenda across identity modernization, secure access, authentication, fraud prevention, identity proofing, delegation, and AI-aware identity capabilities.

You will translate complex business, security, and technical needs into clear product strategies, drive