Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform
Vanta · United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $180,000 / year
- United States
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Job highlights
- Own identity and access management product strategy.
- Develop authentication and authorization systems.
- Scale permissions for enterprise clients.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, GTM.
- Define advanced ownership and access frameworks.
About the role
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.
Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team builds the foundational identity and permissioning systems that power every Vanta product. As Staff Product Manager for the 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 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
What you can expect as a Vanta’n:
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney
About Vanta
We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.
Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.
Key skills/competency
- Staff Product Manager
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- User Modeling
- RBAC
- Multi-tenancy
- B2B SaaS
- Enterprise Platform
- Product Vision
Skills & topics
- Product Manager
- Staff Product Manager
- Identity Management
- Access Management
- IAM
- Authentication
- Authorization
- RBAC
- Multi-tenancy
- B2B SaaS
- Platform Product Manager
- Infrastructure Product Manager
- Vanta Careers
- Product Management Jobs
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 8+ years of product management and platform experience, focusing on IAM, RBAC, and multi-tenancy.
- Showcase systems thinking: Demonstrate your ability to reason about complex identity systems and communicate them simply.
- Emphasize collaboration: Provide examples of successful cross-functional work with engineering, design, and GTM teams.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your experience with enterprise platforms, customer empathy at scale, and navigating ambiguity.
- Research Vanta's mission: Understand their focus on continuous security monitoring and trust management.
Technical preparation
Study IAM principles and architectures.,Understand RBAC and multi-tenancy concepts.,Review policy engines like OPA, Oso.,Practice explaining complex systems simply.
Behavioral questions
Describe a complex platform problem you solved.,How have you handled ambiguous product requirements?,Give an example of influencing stakeholders.,How do you balance startup and enterprise needs?
Frequently asked questions
- What is the role of a Staff Product Manager at Vanta?
- The Staff Product Manager for the Identity Platform at Vanta owns the product vision and roadmap for authentication, authorization, and identity modeling. This role is crucial for scaling Vanta's systems to serve a growing enterprise and government customer base, defining how permissions and access are managed across the platform.
- What specific experience is required for the Staff Product Manager role at Vanta?
- Candidates need 8-12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3-4 years in a Staff/Senior level focused on platform or infrastructure. Experience with B2B SaaS enterprise platforms, particularly in permissions, RBAC, multi-tenancy, or identity systems at scale, is essential.
- How does Vanta approach remote work for this Staff Product Manager position?
- Vanta offers a remote workspace, and provides stipends for internet and cellphone usage. This indicates a strong commitment to supporting remote employees and ensuring they have the resources needed to perform their roles effectively from anywhere.
- What are the key technical areas this Staff Product Manager will focus on?
- The primary technical focus will be on identity and access management systems, including user authentication, authorization, user modeling, and ownership frameworks. Experience with policy engines and multi-tenant SaaS architectures is beneficial.
- How important is cross-functional collaboration for this Staff Product Manager role at Vanta?
- Cross-functional collaboration is extremely important. This role touches every team at Vanta, requiring consensus-building across Product, Engineering, Design, and Go-to-Market teams to harmonize authorization needs and ensure platform capabilities are leveraged effectively.
- What kind of impact can a Staff Product Manager have at Vanta?
- The Staff Product Manager can have a significant impact by shaping the core identity and permissioning systems that power all Vanta products. This includes driving large-scale data migrations and defining future authorization strategies for enterprise and government markets.
- What are the desired 'nice-to-have' qualifications for this role?
- Nice-to-have qualifications include experience with policy engines like Oso, OPA, or Cedar, familiarity with authorization architecture patterns, a background in GRC or security-adjacent products, and knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS architectures.