Product Manager (Identity)

Vertage; Costa Mesa (CA); Remote; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien has an exciting opportunity for a Digital Product Manager to join a defense technology client on a full-time basis. You will own an identity product used by teams across the company, driving the vision, roadmap and end-to-end delivery with autonomy.

The role requires 6-8+ years of product management experience, strong data-driven prioritization, and the ability to collaborate with engineering, design, security and data teams. Remote USA with travel is supported; travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of product management experience, including owning a roadmap & its outcomes for an engineering team.
• Ability to leverage data to make tough prioritization calls
• Strong customer instincts, including proactive communication, expectation management, & a service-oriented mindset with internal and/or external customers
• Technical depth to partner credibly with engineers (APIs, authentication, SSO or similar)
• Experience using data, experiments & customer feedback to improve adoption, activation or retention
• Experience writing PRDs & managing work in Jira
• Hands-on experience running customer research & interviews
• Strong written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver difficult news when necessary, while demonstrating empathy
• Self-starter who can own initiatives end-to-end
• Ability to obtain and maintain a top secret security clearance
• Experience a new product or major capability, from concept to adoption
• Experience running A/B tests and improving a team’s delivery speed or process
• Experience with identity, security, API or developer-facing products, especially access-request or governance platforms that are configured to fit a company is preferred
• Experience reducing operational or support load through product improvements is preferred
• Familiarity with AI-powered integrations, MCP or LLM-based product features is highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the vision & roadmap for an identity product, and the results that come from it, not just the delivery
• Set clear priorities with the team & keep the work on track against the roadmap
• Gather requests from across the company & prioritize which ones ship first, communicating the updates clearly to stakeholders
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to solution on behalf of internal customers
• Lead customer engagement & rollout: communicate what’s coming, set expectations & help new features get adopted
• Help reduce operational load by turning recurring requests into automated, user-friendly workflows
• Help shape role-based access bundles to consolidate onboarding-related tasks & requests
• Contribute to the assessment of the company’s unique needs and workflows, and help decide where to configure & where to build
• Collaborate with engineering on technical roadmap, from authentication & access flows to developer-facing APIs
• Write product requirements documents (PRDs), outline early concepts with design & engineering, and break the work into small, clear steps the team can deliver one at a time
• Use customer interviews, product analytics & experiments to help direct investment appropriately
• Partner with design, security & data teams, and gather feedback from internal stakeholders & customers

Skills

Product management

Roadmap ownership

Data-driven prioritization

Stakeholder communication

APIs & authentication

PRD writing

Customer interviews

Security clearance

Identity products

A/B testing

Tools

Jira

Job description

Salary: USD160000 - USD225000 per annum

Title: Digital Product Manager (Identity)

Location: Orange County, CA, Seattle, WA (or remote USA with travel)

Pay: $160,000 - $225,000/year, depends on experience level

Type: Full time, Direct Hire

Summary

Lorien has an exciting opportunity for a Digital Product Manager to join our defense technology client on a full-time basis. This is a high ownership role in which you’ll manage an identity product used by teams across the company. The ideal candidate brings 6-8+ years of product management experience, thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys autonomy/owning work end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision & roadmap for an identity product, and the results that come from it, not just the delivery
• Set clear priorities with the team & keep the work on track against the roadmap
• Gather requests from across the company & prioritize which ones ship first, communicating the updates clearly to stakeholders
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to solution on behalf of internal customers
• Lead customer engagement & rollout: communicate what’s coming, set expectations & help new features get adopted
• Help reduce operational load by turning recurring requests into automated, user-friendly workflows
• Help shape role-based access bundles to consolidate onboarding-related tasks & requests
• Contribute to the assessment of the company’s unique needs and workflows, and help decide where to configure & where to build
• Collaborate with engineering on technical roadmap, from authentication & access flows to developer-facing APIs
• Write product requirements documents (PRDs), outline early concepts with design & engineering, and break the work into small, clear steps the team can deliver one at a time
• Use customer interviews, product analytics & experiments to help direct investment appropriately
• Partner with design, security & data teams, and gather feedback from internal stakeholders & customers

Required Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of product management experience, including owning a roadmap & its outcomes for an engineering team
• Ability to leverage data to make tough prioritization calls
• Strong customer instincts, including proactive communication, expectation management, & a service-oriented mindset with internal and/or external customers
• Technical depth to partner credibly with engineers (APIs, authentication, SSO or similar)
• Experience using data, experiments & customer feedback to improve adoption, activation or retention
• Experience writing PRDs & managing work in Jira
• Hands-on experience running customer research & interviews
• Strong written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver difficult news when necessary, while demonstrating empathy
• Self-starter who can own initiatives end-to-end
• Ability to obtain and maintain a top secret security clearance
• Experience a new product or major capability, from concept to adoption
• Experience running A/B tests and improving a team’s delivery speed or process
• Experience with identity, security, API or developer-facing products, especially access-request or governance platforms that are configured to fit a company is preferred
• Experience reducing operational or support load through product improvements is preferred
• Familiarity with AI-powered integrations, MCP or LLM-based product features is highly preferred