Platform Product Manager — Identity & Access

Mercury; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 251,000; Full time

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Job summary

Mercury is hiring for a senior product manager to own identity, roles, permissions, and the authorization layer end to end. You will shape platform interactions, define how other teams engage with your layer, and enable founders to onboard their teams with confidence and speed.

You will work on platform strategy, balancing complexity with usability while driving product decisions across research, design, engineering, GTM, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant product management experience, preferably on horizontal product or platform teams accountable for identity, roles, and authorization.
• Taste, and the judgment to balance product against platform. Permission models usually get more powerful by getting more complicated, and the opportunity here is to refuse that trade.
• Product teams should want you in the room early. On a platform team, being consulted before decisions are made is the difference between leverage and cleanup.
• A point of view on agentic action, and on which parts of this get harder when the actor isn't a person.
• A track record of turning ambiguity into a clear point of view, independently.
• The ability to take complex problems end to end (research, design, engineering, GTM, stakeholder management) autonomously

Responsibilities

• Own identity, roles, permissions, and authorization end to end: granular enough for our most demanding customers, rigorous enough for our bank charter, and simple enough that most people never think about it
• Run it as a platform. Set how other product teams engage with yours, and make the layer they build on something that speeds them up rather than something they wait on
• Make it easier for a founder to bring their whole team onto Mercury: find out why they hesitate, and make invitation obvious, easy, and high-trust
• Shape where this space goes as our product ambition grows and the kinds of users we support change, agents among them

Job description

Mercury is hiring for a senior product manager to own identity, roles, permissions, and the authorization layer end to end. You will shape platform interactions, define how other teams engage with your layer, and enable founders to onboard their teams with confidence and speed.

You will work on platform strategy, balancing complexity with usability while driving product decisions across research, design, engineering, GTM, and stakeholders.