About the Role
Palo Alto Networks is seeking a driven and highly technical Product Manager to take ownership of the authentication capabilities within our IDIRA identity platform. In this role, you will define the strategy, guide the product roadmap, and manage the end-to-end feature lifecycle for our core authentication services. Serving as a critical bridge between technical execution and market demand, you will partner cross-functionally with engineering, enterprise customers, field teams, and internal stakeholders across our identity and network security portfolios. The ideal candidate blends strong technical intuition with a thorough understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), network security, and enterprise deployment architectures.
Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
Responsibilities
•Product Strategy & Lifecycle: Own and drive the comprehensive product strategy, roadmap, and feature lifecycle for authentication capabilities within the IDIRA platform.
•Requirement Definition: Define precise product requirements for identity-aware security features, encompassing user mapping, authentication mechanisms, identity integrations, and policy enforcement.
•Integration Management: Lead and support critical integrations with enterprise identity technologies, including Active Directory, LDAP, Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, SAML, OIDC, and RADIUS.
•Stakeholder Alignment: Gather and synthesize complex requirements from enterprise customers, field teams, customer success, and internal stakeholders to establish clear roadmap priorities.
•Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate seamlessly with engineering, UX, technical marketing, sales, customer success, and product teams to guide capabilities from initial concept through successful market launch.
•Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage customer, deployment, and product analytics to continuously enhance system scalability, reliability, performance, usability, and adoption rates.
•Enablement & Content Creation: Develop robust technical product content, comprehensive deployment guidance, and strategic field enablement materials.
•Innovation & Efficiency: Utilize artificial intelligence and modern product-development frameworks to accelerate research, competitive analysis, prototyping, and strategic decision-making.
Requirements
•Experience: 3–5 years of relevant experience in product management, technical product management, technical marketing, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
•Customer Engagement: Track record of engaging directly with enterprise customers for feedback, discovery, and requirements gathering.
•Excellent communicator with proven ability to collaborate across teams without formal authority; able to clearly present ideas and drive colleagues into action to achieve common goals.
•Domain Expertise: Proven experience in at least one of the following domains: Identity/IAM, authentication, directory services, networking, network security, firewalls, Zero Trust, secure access, or enterprise security infrastructure.
•Execution Skills: Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams to translate complex technical or customer needs into actionable product requirements.
•Core Competencies: Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
•Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
•Advanced Identity Expertise: Hands-on experience with Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, OIDC, Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, or equivalent enterprise identity platforms.
•Technical Acumen: Working knowledge of enterprise identity systems and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).
•Security Ecosystem Knowledge: Familiarity with identity security, authentication, secure access.
•Authentication & Security Expertise: Strong familiarity with authentication protocols and standards like FIDO2/WebAuthn, Passkeys, security devices.
•Endpoint Management: Experience with Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions such as Microsoft Intune, Workspace ONE, or JAMF.
•Zero Trust Architecture: Strong understanding of Zero Trust frameworks and identity-aware security paradigms.
•Product Leadership: Prior experience actively owning or contributing to an enterprise software product roadmap and driving complex features from concept through launch.
•Enablement Delivery: Experience creating technical product collateral, deployment guides, or comprehensive enablement assets for sales and technical field teams.
Note: This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Palo Alto Networks will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
