Senior Enterprise Authentication & Identity Product Leader

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States seeks an experienced Head of Enterprise Authentication to steer the product vision, target state, and multi-year transformation roadmap across web, mobile, and APIs.

You will lead modernization toward passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, passwordless authentication, biometrics, and adaptive security while balancing user experience, fraud controls, and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of digital product management experience.
• 5+ years of direct experience with authentication, identity, IAM/CIAM, cybersecurity, or credential platforms.
• Experience owning or leading an enterprise authentication platform supporting multiple applications, channels, or customer journeys.
• Experience leading a significant authentication or identity platform modernization or transformation.
• Experience leading complex, enterprise-scale initiatives across multiple technology and business organizations.
• Experience implementing passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, passwordless authentication, biometrics, device binding, or adaptive authentication at scale.
• Deep understanding of MFA, credentials, authentication tokens, identity, device intelligence, risk-based authentication, and credential lifecycle management.
• Experience defining target-state authentication architecture with engineering and architecture.
• Experience modernizing or replacing legacy authentication platforms.
• Experience with authentication APIs, SDKs, orchestration platforms, and web/mobile integrations.
• Experience leading and developing product managers.
• Background in financial services, fintech, cybersecurity, or another highly regulated environment.
• Executive-level communication and ability to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise authentication product vision, target state, multi-year strategy, and transformation roadmap.
• Lead modernization from legacy authentication toward passkeys/FIDO2/WebAuthn, passwordless authentication, biometrics, device trust, and adaptive authentication.
• Establish platform strategy across web, mobile, APIs, credentials, authentication orchestration, and recovery.
• Determine modernization sequencing, platform priorities, dependencies, investment needs, and legacy capability retirement.
• Translate business, customer, fraud, security, and regulatory requirements into scalable enterprise authentication capabilities.
• Establish product-health measures and outcomes across security, adoption, reliability, customer friction, fraud effectiveness, and cost.
• Define enterprise strategies for passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, passwordless authentication, MFA, adaptive authentication, biometrics, device binding and trust, token and credential lifecycle management, risk-based and step-up authentication, orchestration, and recovery.
• Balance customer experience, authentication assurance, fraud prevention, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with cybersecurity, fraud, architecture, IAM/CIAM, and risk leaders to establish authentication standards and controls.
• Evaluate emerging authentication technologies for the target-state platform.
• Lead enterprise decision-making across multiple authentication products, platforms, and technology organizations.
• Influence senior executives on strategy, platform investment, risk, modernization priorities, and trade-offs.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, fraud, risk, legal, operations, and channel product teams.
• Communicate complex authentication strategies through executive storytelling, metrics, and recommendations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop product managers, including the Lead Digital Product Manager supporting major authentication workstreams.

Skills

Enterprise Authentication Management

Passkeys Implementation

Executive Communication

Cross-Functional Leadership

MFA Implementation

Authentication Architecture

Orchestration Platforms

Biometrics Integration

Tools

Authentication Architecture

Orchestration Platforms

Biometrics Integration

Job description

Jobtailor in the United States seeks an experienced Head of Enterprise Authentication to steer the product vision, target state, and multi-year transformation roadmap across web, mobile, and APIs.

You will lead modernization toward passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, passwordless authentication, biometrics, and adaptive security while balancing user experience, fraud controls, and regulatory requirements.