Senior Product Manager, Identity and Access Management (Strata Cloud Manager)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

  - Define and drive the IAM product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap, including RBAC, fine-grained authorization, identity federation (SAML/OIDC/SCIM), and MFA/SSO.                                      

  - Own the cross-platform access control model across SCM, ensuring consistent policy enforcement for operators, customers, and service-to-service interactions in a multi-tenant environment.

  - Partner with downstream product teams (NGFW, Prisma, Cortex) to define IAM integration requirements and ensure platform capabilities meet their go-to-market needs.                                               

  - Engage directly with enterprise customers, field teams, and security architects to validate requirements and translate feedback into prioritized product decisions.                                               

  - Drive alignment with compliance and regulatory requirements (SOC 2, FedRAMP, GDPR) as they relate to identity, access control, and audit logging.                                                                 

  - Collaborate with Product Marketing to build messaging, technical documentation, and competitive positioning for IAM capabilities.                                                                                 

  - Define and track success metrics: adoption, time-to-provision, MTTR for access incidents—and use data to drive continuous improvement.                                                                             

  - Contribute to platform-level decisions on API security, service authorization, and developer-facing identity primitives (tokens, scopes, API keys). 

Qualifications

  Required Qualifications

  - Education & Experience: BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.                                                                        

  - Product Management Track Record: 5+ years of product management experience, with a demonstrated history of shipping enterprise SaaS or cloud platform products.

  - Identity & Access Management Expertise: Deep understanding of IAM concepts and protocols, including RBAC, ABAC, SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM, MFA, SSO, and directory services.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

  - Platform Thinking: Experience building shared platform capabilities consumed by multiple products or teams, with the ability to balance diverse stakeholder needs against a cohesive platform architecture.       

  - Enterprise Security Context: Familiarity with zero trust security architecture principles, enterprise compliance requirements (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001), and how IAM intersects with audit, governance, and risk

   management.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

  Preferred Qualifications                                                    

  - Multi-Tenancy Experience: Hands-on experience defining access control models for multi-tenant SaaS platforms, including operator/reseller/customer hierarchy patterns.                                            

  - Developer Platform Exposure: Experience defining IAM capabilities for developer-facing APIs, scopes, service accounts, API key management, and machine-to-machine authentication.

  - Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to align engineering, security architecture, legal, and GTM teams around a shared identity strategy without direct authority.                                                                                                                                         

  - Executive Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical identity tradeoffs to platform architects, and leadership.                           

  - Data-Driven Ownership: Track record of defining success metrics for platform capabilities and using data to drive roadmap decisions and stakeholder confidence.  

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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