Senior Lead Digital Product Management, Authentication & Identity

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

• 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

Requirements

• 7+ years of digital product management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education
• 5+ years of direct experience with authentication, identity, IAM/CIAM, cybersecurity, or credential platforms
• Experience owning or leading an enterprise authentication, identity, IAM/CIAM, or credential 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
• Strong analytical and strategic decision-making skills
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Must be willing to work out of the posted location's office 3 days a week

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in enterprise authentication product management, including strategy development for passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, and passwordless authentication. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence executive decision-making in highly regulated environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Enterprise Authentication Management
• Passkeys Implementation
• FIDO2/WebAuthn Expertise
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Executive Communication

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Digital Product Management
• Authentication Architecture
• MFA Implementation
• Credential Lifecycle Management
• Risk-Based Authentication
• Authentication APIs
• Orchestration Platforms
• Biometrics Integration
• Device Binding
• Adaptive Authentication

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Strategic Decision-Making
• Mentoring
• Influencing Skills
• Communication Skills

Industry Keywords

• Cybersecurity
• IAM/CIAM
• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Regulatory Compliance