Senior Staff Product Manger - Identity & Access Management

Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. They are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager for Identity & Access Management to define and drive the next generation of authentication and authorization capabilities, working closely with engineering leadership to enhance security and usability across their platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap in partnership with engineering, platform, and product orgs—balancing customer needs, scale, compliance and future-ready architecture
• Own product strategy for identity standards such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, as well as modern authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, scoped tokens, fine-grained policy)
• Drive the next generation of Splunk identity to support AI systems, autonomous agents, machine-identity issuance, short-lived credentials, and Just-In-Time trust workflows
• Define and evolve authentication and authorization for agent-to-agent (A2A) interactions, delegated access, workload identity bootstrap, and agentic policy governance
• Partner deeply with customers, enterprise security teams, field, and developers to gather feedback, validate requirements, and translate insights into platform-level capabilities
• Lead product lifecycle execution—from vision → design → rollout → adoption—with measurable delivery outcomes and release clarity across the Splunk ecosystem
• Promote continuous learning, modernization, and new identity models such as zero-trust enforcement, passwordless authentication, and adaptive policy powered by AI-driven signals

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (advanced degree a plus)
• 7+ years experience in Product Management, Identity, Security, or relevant technical platform roles
• Deep understanding of IAM fundamentals: OAuth, OIDC, JWT, SCIM, mutual-TLS, session/token security, and enterprise authorization patterns (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC)
• Experience with platform-scale identity systems, preferably in distributed cloud environments
• Skilled in writing proposals, narratives, and roadmaps; able to drive alignment across engineering, security, field, and customer collaborators
• Experience with Splunk architecture or administering Splunk products is strongly preferred
• Understanding of AI-powered policy engines, identity automation, workload/agent identity, threat-adaptive AuthN/AuthZ, or agent-first access orchestration is a strong differentiator