Senior Product Manager, Authentication (IDIRA)

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.
• 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.

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