Senior Product Manager, Authentication (IDIRA)

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

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a driven and highly technical Product Manager to take ownership of the authentication capabilities within our IDIRA identity platform. In this role, you will define the strategy, guide the product roadmap, and manage the end-to-end feature lifecycle for our core authentication services. Serving as a critical bridge between technical execution and market demand, you will partner cross-functionally with engineering, enterprise customers, field teams, and internal stakeholders across our identity and network security portfolios. The ideal candidate blends strong technical intuition with a thorough understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), network security, and enterprise deployment architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Lifecycle: Own and drive the comprehensive product strategy, roadmap, and feature lifecycle for authentication capabilities within the IDIRA platform.
• Requirement Definition: Define precise product requirements for identity-aware security features, encompassing user mapping, authentication mechanisms, identity integrations, and policy enforcement.
• Integration Management: Lead and support critical integrations with enterprise identity technologies, including Active Directory, LDAP, Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, SAML, OIDC, and RADIUS.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Gather and synthesize complex requirements from enterprise customers, field teams, customer success, and internal stakeholders to establish clear roadmap priorities.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate seamlessly with engineering, UX, technical marketing, sales, customer success, and product teams to guide capabilities from initial concept through successful market launch.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage customer, deployment, and product analytics to continuously enhance system scalability, reliability, performance, usability, and adoption rates.
• Enablement & Content Creation: Develop robust technical product content, comprehensive deployment guidance, and strategic field enablement materials.
• Innovation & Efficiency: Utilize artificial intelligence and modern product-development frameworks to accelerate research, competitive analysis, prototyping, and strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3–5 years of relevant experience in product management, technical product management, technical marketing, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Customer Engagement: Track record of engaging directly with enterprise customers for feedback, discovery, and requirements gathering.
• Excellent communicator proven ability to collaborate cross teams without formal authority; be able to clearly present ideas and drive colleagues into action to achieve common goals.
• Domain Expertise: Proven experience in at least one of the following domains: Identity/IAM, authentication, directory services, networking, network security, firewalls, Zero Trust, secure access, or enterprise security infrastructure.
• Execution Skills: Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams to translate complex technical or customer needs into actionable product requirements.
• Core Competencies: Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Identity Expertise: Hands-on experience with Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, OIDC, Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, or equivalent enterprise identity platforms.
• Technical Acumen: Working knowledge of enterprise identity systems and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) 
• Security Ecosystem Knowledge: Familiarity with identity security, authentication, secure access. 
• Authentication & Security Expertise: Strong familiarity with authentication protocols and standards like FIDO2/WebAuthn, Passkeys, security devices.
• Endpoint Management: Experience with Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions such as Microsoft Intune, Workspace ONE, or JAMF.
• Zero Trust Architecture: Strong understanding of Zero Trust frameworks and identity-aware security paradigms.
• Product Leadership: Prior experience actively owning or contributing to an enterprise software product roadmap and driving complex features from concept through launch.
• Enablement Delivery: Experience creating technical product collateral, deployment guides, or comprehensive enablement assets for sales and technical field teams.

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.

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.