Principal Tech Product Manager, Enterprise Identity (Remote)

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum seeks a Principal Technical Product Manager to define and drive the enterprise non-human identity strategy across consumer, workforce and shared platform use cases. This individual-contributor role partners across authentication, authorization, security, AI, and architecture teams to turn PoCs into reusable platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes executive communication, strategic roadmapping and measurable business outcomes, with a focus on scalable, governance-driven identity

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in identity, security, platform, infrastructure, AI platform or similarly technical enterprise products.
• Experience translating ambiguous technical problems into prioritized product decisions, requirements, adoption plans and executive recommendations.
• Experience in identity and access management (IAM), including CIAM, identity platforms, cybersecurity or related domains, including authentication, authorization, governance and identity lifecycle concepts.
• Experience leading vendor outreach and evaluation, running proofs of concept, and shaping build-versus-buy or platform decisions.
• Solid understanding of authorization and delegated-access concepts, including least privilege, policy-based decisions and enforcement across applications or APIs.
• Demonstrated ownership of product strategy, roadmap and 0-to-1 delivery for enterprise-scale platform capabilities, including defining success measures and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering, architecture, security, product, business and vendor stakeholders without direct authority.
• Proven ability to communicate complex identity, security and agentic-system concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for enterprise non-human, machine, workload and agentic identity capabilities across consumer, workforce and shared platform use cases.
• Align dependencies across authentication, authorization, security, architecture and AI platform teams to move from PoCs to reusable capabilities.
• Define how agents, workloads and machine identities are authenticated, authorized, sponsored, delegated, governed, observed and retired.
• Prioritize representative use cases and proofs of concept that validate hypotheses and create reusable enterprise patterns.
• Translate learnings into scalable capabilities, implementation guidance, pilot plans and adoption plans.
• Partner with engineering and architecture to assess feasibility, surface tradeoffs and make evidence-based build, buy or partner recommendations.
• Translate ambiguous technical and business problems into clear strategy, priorities, roadmaps, success measures and measurable outcomes.
• Communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies and investment needs to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Build decision narratives that connect security and architecture capabilities to business value, customer enablement, risk reduction and enterprise reuse.
• Define product health, adoption, reliability, security, auditability and business-value measures for NHI capabilities.
• Create transparent roadmaps, decision records, status updates and dependency views that support shared execution.
• Monitor industry standards, market direction and vendor capabilities, and lead vendor outreach and evaluation in a rapidly developing product space.

Skills

Product management

IAM

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Platform strategy

Proof of concept

Job description

Optum seeks a Principal Technical Product Manager to define and drive the enterprise non-human identity strategy across consumer, workforce and shared platform use cases. This individual-contributor role partners across authentication, authorization, security, AI, and architecture teams to turn PoCs into reusable platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes executive communication, strategic roadmapping and measurable business outcomes, with a focus on scalable, governance-driven identity