Sr. Manager, Identity Security & Access Management

K57 Skechers USA, Inc.; Rancho Santa Margarita (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers USA, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Manager of Identity Security & Access Management to lead the global IAM program. You will shape policy, architecture, and governance across workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities, partnering with IT Infra and Ops to deploy secure, scalable authentication across cloud and on-prem platforms.

You will drive program roadmaps, enable secure authentication, and mentor a growing security team in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in identity and access management, cybersecurity, or security architecture.
• 5+ years with multiple authentication solutions and identity platforms.
• 3+ years in management or team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead IAM engineering, governance, and architecture for Skechers.
• Define IAM strategy, roadmaps, budgets, and metrics.
• Establish IAM policies and reference architectures for varied identities.
• Support adoption of phishing resistant authentication and passkeys.
• Oversee identity governance including access reviews and evidence automation.
• Drive governance for non-human identities and AI agents.
• Collaborate with IT Infra and Operations on Okta, AD, Azure AD Entra ID.
• Develop patterns and automation for contextual authentication and scalable access governance.
• Manage vendor relationships and project roadmaps.

Skills

IAM strategy

architecture patterns

stakeholder communication

leadership

risk-based authentication

Zero Trust concepts

identity governance

phishing resistant authentication

SaaS and cloud identity

on-prem and cloud AD

Tools

Okta

Active Directory

Azure AD / Entra ID

LDAP

PAM

SSO

MFA

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Sr. Manager, Identity Security & Access Management (IAM) at Skechers is a key member of our global information security team who will work as a subject matter expert, trusted partner, and ambassador to help protect Skechers critical customer facing and core business applications. This role leads the identity security program responsible for policy, architecture direction, governance, roadmap, and identity risk reduction across workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities. We are looking for someone who will continue growing and maturing a practice that is focused equally on enablement as well as assurance, who will apply a technology first approach to providing seamless secure authentication and the frameworks necessary to enable humans, machines, and agents to operate securely at scale. Skechers' increasingly AI enabled hybrid technology environment requires an individual who is well versed in traditional and modern applications, cloud infrastructure, automation, and identity platforms, and who is comfortable operating in an advisory or hands on leadership role as the situation demands. This role partners closely with IT infrastructure and operations teams that administer identity providers and access processes, helping define standards and engineer solutions that can be adopted across the enterprise. The candidate who will find the most success and fulfillment brings a genuine interest and passion for information security, a love for learning, a positive attitude, and a desire to roll up their sleeves and dive into the deep end.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead the team responsible for identity security and access management at Skechers, including IAM engineering, governance, and architecture.
• Own IAM program strategy, roadmap, priorities, budget planning, metrics, and reporting.
• Establish and maintain IAM policies, security standards, reference architectures, and best practice guidelines for workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities.
• Provide direction and support for the adoption and management of phishing resistant authentication, passkeys, risk-based authentication, PAM, and just in time services.
• Lead identity governance and administration strategy, including access review frameworks, evidence automation, remediation tracking, and control maturity.
• Develop and mature governance for non-human identities, including service accounts, API keys, bots, automation accounts, workload identities, and AI agents.
• Guide identity risk reduction and posture management across traditional systems, SaaS, cloud, and modern application infrastructure.
• Develop, build, and maintain technology patterns, integrations, and automation frameworks that enable contextual authentication, authorization, and scalable access governance.
• Partner with IT Infrastructure and IT Operations teams that administer platforms such as Okta, Active Directory, Azure AD / Entra ID to define requirements, provide technical guidance, and support adoption.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technical and business functions to develop and maintain the roadmap for enterprise identity security solutions, including privileged access, identity governance, machine identity, and cloud entitlement management capabilities.
• Oversee IAM technology vendors, implementation planning, product roadmap alignment, support escalation, and service quality.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of IAM and identity security best practices, including Zero Trust Architecture, non-human identity management, AI agent governance, and cloud identity risk.
• Stay up to date and informed on changing IT and information security trends.
• Create, communicate, and continuously monitor and improve metrics and KPIs.
• Collaborate effectively with diverse internal teams to help drive security maturity.
• Contribute positively to the culture of information security across the org.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Excellent understanding of authentication, authorization, role-based access, attribute-based access, least privilege, segregation of duties, entitlement management, and identity lifecycle concepts.
• Proven experience leading a practice around identities, access, accounts, authentication, authorization, entitlements, permissions, privileged access, and non-human identities.
• Positive track record developing IAM strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and implementation roadmaps in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience with identity platforms and capabilities such as Active Directory, Azure AD / Entra ID, Okta, LDAP, IGA, PAM, SSO, MFA, risk-based authentication, and passkeys.
• Experience with IAM governance, user access review frameworks, control design, evidence automation, compliance partnership, and remediation tracking.
• Working understanding of identity security risk, posture management, cloud entitlement management, Zero Trust concepts, and governance for machine identities and AI agents.
• Ability to partner with infrastructure, operations, application, cloud, and business teams where identity operations are owned outside the information security team.
• Ability to manage program roadmaps, budget input, technology evaluations, vendor relationships, implementation oversight, and stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to communicate issues effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong work ethic with attention to detail.
• Ability to excel in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 7+ years of experience with identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, or security architecture.
• 5+ years of experience with multiple authentication and authorization solutions, directory platforms, identity governance, privileged access, or related identity security technologies.
• 3+ years of management or team leadership experience.
• Proven ability to mentor, grow, and develop a team.
• Experience managing technology vendors, implementation planning, and product roadmaps.

The pay range for this position is $175,000-$205,000/yr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Reasonable Accommodation Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing [e-mail].

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

Join our team of innovators, creators, and designers. Skechers, the global leader in comfort technologies, brings together employees from around the globe to deliver stylish products for people of all ages. Our employees are passionate about more than just the products we design, employees – we value community involvement and give back to local communities through a variety of initiatives including Skechers Foundation and Bobs for Dogs. Learn more about who Skechers supports local communities around the world. Stay up to date on our brand, job openings, community involvement, and more via LinkedIn.

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

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