Principal Product Manager, Identity

Zip; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Start-up equity

Full health, vision & dental coverage

Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees

Commuter benefit

Team building events & happy hours

Flexible PTO

Apple equipment plus home office budget

401k plan

Job summary

A leading procurement platform in San Francisco is seeking a Product Manager for Enterprise Foundations. The candidate will drive security and user experience across the platform, manage authentication and data governance, and collaborate with various teams. The ideal candidate has 4-8+ years of experience in product management and is skilled in enterprise-level security and identity management. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, plus a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of Product Management experience in security and identity/auth.
• Strong understanding of enterprise authentication patterns.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts.
• High technical fluency and ability to translate technical constraints.
• Experience using BI tools and shaping data presentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead authentication and security roadmap including MFA and anomaly detection.
• Define strategy for data governance and reporting capabilities.
• Own permissions and access controls for enterprises.
• Partner with teams to address customer-specific requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering to define product requirements.

Skills

Product Management experience

Understanding of SSO/SAML

Data literacy with BI tools

Experience with data warehouses

Exceptional communication skills

Bias to action in fast-paced environments

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

The simple task of buying software, services, or tools at work has become hopelessly complicated at even the most innovative companies in the world. Today, enterprises spend $120T+ per year globally (>30 times larger than annual consumer e-commerce spend) and rely on vendors more than ever before to run their businesses.

Our cofounders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly intractable problem with a purpose-built procurement platform that provides a simple, consumer-grade user experience. Within the last 4 years, Zip has created a new category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, the world’s leading companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, Anthropic, Coinbase, and Prudential rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend.

We have a world-class team coming from category-defining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, Tiger Global, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, we’re focused on developing cutting-edge technology, expanding into new global markets, and—above all–driving incredible value for our customers. Join us!

Please note we are looking for someone who is willing and able to come into our downtown San Francisco office on a hybrid basis (3 days / week).

Your Role

As a Product Manager for Enterprise Foundations, you will own the core capabilities that power trust, security, identity, permissions, insights, and foundational UI components across Zip. You will define and deliver platform-level features that support our largest enterprise customers, ensure world-class security and governance, and enable teams across Zip to build consistent, performant, and compliant product experiences.

You Will

• Lead Zip’s authentication and security roadmap, including MFA, step-up MFA, Multi-IdP SSO, IP restrictions, anomaly detection, and account takeover prevention.

• Define and drive strategy for Zip’s data governance, reporting and insights capabilities.

• Own enterprise-grade permissions and access controls, ensuring clarity, auditability, and scalability for complex organizational structures.

• Partner with GTM and Customer Teams to unblock high-ARR deals by addressing requirements such as regional hosting, multi-cell architectures, dedicated customer cells, and BYOK/FedRAMP-adjacent needs.

• Lead Zip’s design system and component library roadmap, aligning with Design and FE Platform to deliver shared components for web and mobile and improve developer velocity.

• Collaborate deeply with engineering to define requirements, provide product direction, make tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality foundational capabilities.

Your Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of Product Management experience, including substantial work on platform, security, identity/auth, RBAC/permissions, data residency and governance, or infrastructure-adjacent products.

• Strong understanding of SSO/SAML, OAuth, MFA, and broader enterprise authentication patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (multi-cell architectures, regional deployments, multi-tenant models, isolation patterns) and the ability to partner effectively with Infrastructure Engineering on architectural decisions.

• Strong data literacy with experience using BI tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.) and shaping how data is modeled and presented to customers.

• Experience with data warehouses and ETL/ELT tools (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Fivetran).

• High technical fluency with the ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear product decisions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to diverse technical and non-technical audiences (including some of Zip’s largest customers).

• Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.

Bonus

• Experience working with design systems or shared component libraries is a plus.

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $250,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

• 📈 Start-up equity

• 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage

• 🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees

• 🚍 Commuter benefit

• 🚠 Team building events & happy hours

• 🌴 Flexible PTO

• 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget

• 💸 401k plan

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!