Staff Product Manager, Identity Platform
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) team builds the foundational identity and permissioning systems that power every Vanta product. As Staff Product Manager for the Identity Platform, you'll own the product vision and roadmap for how Vanta authenticates users, authorizes actions, and models identity across an increasingly complex customer base from 10-person startups to federal agencies. This high-autonomy role shapes how permissions scale as Vanta moves deeper into enterprise and government markets.
What you’ll do as a Staff Product Manager at Vanta:
- Own the IAM product vision and roadmap, setting direction for authentication, authorization, user modeling, and ownership frameworks in close partnership with engineering leadership
- Drive the User Model split to completion — separating IAM Users (auth/permissions) from Personnel Records (GRC/compliance) in a complex, cross-team data migration with org-wide impact
- Define Ownership 3.0 — chart the path from binary object-level ownership to customer-customizable, role-based permissions that serve both startups and large enterprises
- Shape Vanta's authorization strategy proactively, ensuring product teams build on shared platform capabilities rather than ad hoc permission solutions
- Contribute to multi-tenant access architecture, enabling seamless cross-domain experiences for auditors, MSPs, and multi-workspace enterprise customers
- Navigate complex cross-team dependencies across GRC, Trust, Collaboration, and PEX — all of which have authorization needs that this role must harmonize
- Partner deeply with engineering and technical domain experts to balan...