VP, Non-Human & Agent Identity Security Strategy

IDC; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 vacation days

12 company-paid holidays

6 paid sick days

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

2 floating holidays

1 volunteer day

401(k) company match

Short-term disability

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

IDC seeks a Vice President of Non-Human Identity & Agent Identity Security to lead IDC's market view on service accounts, API keys, workload identities, and autonomous AI agents. You will shape research priorities, publish forecasts, and guide advisory offerings for enterprise buyers and vendors.

You will engage senior executives, track M&A and funding trends, and drive syndicated research while collaborating with across IDC's security and AI teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10–15+ years of relevant experience in technology research, advisory, consulting, product strategy, cybersecurity, identity, or related markets.
• Deep understanding of identity and access management, privileged access management, or cloud security markets — their vendors, buyer priorities, and adoption patterns.
• Strong knowledge of AI and agentic systems as they intersect with identity, security, and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to define research agendas, analyze emerging markets, synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs, and produce clear, differentiated market insight.

Responsibilities

• Lead IDC's research agenda for non-human identity (NHI) and agentic identity security, including machine credential lifecycle management, workload identity, service account governance, and AI agent authentication and authorization.
• Shape IDC's market taxonomy, research priorities, and point of view on how NHI is emerging as a distinct security buying category — separate from, but adjacent to, traditional IAM.
• Develop and publish differentiated research, including market sizing, vendor assessments (MarketScape), forecasts, buyer guidance, and executive-level advisory content.
• Conduct and oversee market sizing, forecasting, competitive analysis, and trend analysis across the NHI and agentic identity vendor landscape.
• Track vendor strategy, M&A, startup activity, funding trends, partnerships, and product innovation across the space.
• Engage senior technology vendor executives through briefings, inquiries, advisory calls, strategy sessions, and industry events.
• Engage enterprise security, identity, cloud, and AI leaders to understand adoption priorities, governance gaps, implementation patterns, and buying behavior.
• Represent IDC externally through presentations, webinars, conferences, media engagement, investor discussions, and executive client meetings.
• Partner with IDC analysts across security, cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, and identity to build integrated, cross-domain research perspectives.
• Support and help grow syndicated subscriptions, custom research, consulting opportunities, and strategic account engagement tied to IDC's expanding coverage of NHI and agentic identity security.

Skills

Executive presence

Market analysis

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Travel willingness

PowerPoint & Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree; advanced degree preferred

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

IDC seeks a Vice President of Non-Human Identity & Agent Identity Security to lead IDC's market view on service accounts, API keys, workload identities, and autonomous AI agents. You will shape research priorities, publish forecasts, and guide advisory offerings for enterprise buyers and vendors.

You will engage senior executives, track M&A and funding trends, and drive syndicated research while collaborating with across IDC's security and AI teams.