Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform

About Vanta

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team builds the foundational identity and permissioning systems that power every Vanta product. As Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform, you'll own the product vision and roadmap for how Vanta authenticates users, authorizes actions, and models identity across an increasingly complex customer base from 10-person startups to federal agencies. This high-autonomy role shapes how permissions scale as Vanta moves deeper into enterprise and government markets.

What you’ll do as a Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform at Vanta

• Own the IAM product vision and roadmap, setting direction for authentication, authorization, user modeling, and ownership frameworks in close partnership with engineering leadership.
• Drive the User Model split to completion — separating IAM Users (auth/permissions) from Personnel Records (GRC/compliance) in a complex, cross-team data migration with org-wide impact.
• Define Ownership 3.0 — chart the path from binary object-level ownership to customer-customizable, role-based permissions that serve both startups and large enterprises.
• Shape Vanta's authorization strategy proactively, ensuring product teams build on shared platform capabilities rather than ad hoc permission solutions.
• Contribute to multi-tenant access architecture, enabling seamless cross-domain experiences for auditors, MSPs, and multi-workspace enterprise customers.
• Navigate complex cross-team dependencies across GRC, Trust, Collaboration, and PEX — all of which have authorization needs that this role must harmonize.
• Partner deeply with engineering and technical domain experts to balance enterprise complexity with comprehensibility for smaller customers.
• Translate technical IAM concepts into clear business value for leadership, GTM teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

What You'll Bring

• 8-12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3-4 years at a Staff/Senior level in platform or infrastructure roles.
• Enterprise platform PM experience: you've worked on permissions, RBAC, multi-tenancy, or identity systems at scale in B2B SaaS.
• Systems thinking: you can reason about how authentication, authorization, and identity interconnect and affect every product surface — and explain it simply.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration: this role touches every team at Vanta and requires building consensus across Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM.
• Storytelling for technical concepts: you can explain why an authorization architecture decision matters to non-technical stakeholders and translate complex IAM concepts into clear business value.
• Customer empathy at multiple scales: you understand that a 10-person startup and a federal agency have vastly different permission needs, and can design systems that serve both.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you've navigated complex platform problems with many open design questions and competing stakeholder needs.

Nice to have

• Experience with policy engines (Oso, OPA, Cedar) or authorization architecture patterns.
• Background in GRC, compliance, or security-adjacent products.
• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architectures.

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Authentication & Authorization
• Product Vision & Roadmap
• Enterprise SaaS
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Multi-tenancy Architecture
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Systems Thinking
• Technical Storytelling