Sr. Product Manager, Authentication and Authorization
Position: Sr. Product Manager, Authentication and Authorization
About the Team
Our product team is empowered to identify what the future looks like, and plan a path to get there using data, research, and empathy. We guide exceptional multi-disciplinary teams toward our collective vision while empowering them to do great work. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to lead key aspects of our strategy, drive them forward, and grow alongside the company while we change the future.
About the Role
As a Product Manager within Auth, you will lead our team of engineers and designers to deliver secure connectivity between a JumpCloud identity and any resource an employee needs. As an expert in authentication protocols and technologies, you will be responsible for finding secure and convenient paths for a user to access their resources and finding new ways to connect devices, applications, and networks to JumpCloud.
What you will be doing:
- Lead the strategy and roadmap for product functions you manage to ensure our investments in this space will result in the highest value for our customers.
- Own the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of your ideas and lead them to become new features of, or ancillary products to, our Directory-as-a-Service.
- Lead the scoping and creation of features and products, communicating and driving what your customers need through our agile process.
- Maintain diligence and perform analysis on the market JumpCloud serves to understand competitive offerings, their positioning, functionality and value propositions.
- Work with customers, fellow product managers, user experience, architects, engineering teams, QA, marketing, sales, customer success, and senior leadership to formulate and execute the best path forward.
What you should have:
- 5 years of experience as a Product Manager directing the strategy and execution of customer-facing products.
- Product management experience building and maintaining large-scale software systems
- Data-centric approach and technical expertise to help develop and measure the impact of a solution
- Ability to influence people to get things done across any job function. People love working with you.
- Ability to make trade-off decisions that identify core needs and solve them quickly
- Proven experience working in iterative agile development methodologies
- Knowledge and deep appreciation of user research, current states of design, user experience, and the product manager role in the agile process
- Empathy, humility, passion, precision, organizational skills, self-direction, presentation skills
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related industry experience
- Experience with IT-related technologies such as directory services, LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, MultiFactor Authentication or similarly complex technologies is a must