Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skechers is hiring a Sr. Manager, Identity Security & Access Management to lead its global identity security program. The role sets strategy, architecture, governance, and standards while reducing identity risk across workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities, and partners with IT and business teams to enable secure access at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team responsible for identity security and access management at Skechers, including IAM engineering, governance, and architecture
- Own IAM program strategy, roadmap, priorities, budget planning, metrics, and reporting
- Establish and maintain IAM policies, security standards, reference architectures, and best practice guidelines for workforce, privileged, non-human, and AI agent identities
- Provide direction and support for the adoption and management of phishing resistant authentication, passkeys, risk-based authentication, PAM, and just in time services
- Lead identity governance and administration strategy, including access review frameworks, evidence automation, remediation tracking, and control maturity
- Develop and mature governance for non-human identities, including service accounts, API keys, bots, automation accounts, workload identities, and AI agents
- Guide identity risk reduction and posture management across traditional systems, SaaS, cloud, and modern application infrastructure
- Develop, build, and maintain technology patterns, integrations, and automation frameworks that enable contextual authentication, authorization, and scalable access governance
- Partner with IT Infrastructure and IT Operations teams that administer platforms such as Okta, Active Directory, Azure AD / Entra ID to define requirements, provide technical guidance, and support adoption
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technical and business functions to develop and maintain the roadmap for enterprise identity security solutions, including privileged access, identity governance, machine identity, and cloud entitlement management capabilities
- Oversee IAM technology vendors, implementation planning, product roadmap alignment, support escalation, and service quality
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of IAM and identity security best practices, including Zero Trust Architecture, non-human identity management, AI agent governance, and cloud identity risk
- Stay up to date and informed on changing IT and information security trends
- Create, communicate, and continuously monitor and improve metrics and KPIs
- Collaborate effectively with diverse internal teams to help drive security maturity
- Contribute positively to the culture of information security across the org
Skills
- Excellent understanding of authentication, authorization, role-based access, attribute-based access, least privilege, segregation of duties, entitlement management, and identity lifecycle concepts
- Proven experience leading a practice around identities, access, accounts, authentication, authorization, entitlements, permissions, privileged access, and non-human identities
- Positive track record developing IAM strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and implementation roadmaps in a large enterprise environment
- Experience with identity platforms and capabilities such as Active Directory, Azure AD / Entra ID, Okta, LDAP, IGA, PAM, SSO, MFA, risk-based authentication, and passkeys
- Experience with IAM governance, user access review frameworks, control design, evidence automation, compliance partnership, and remediation tracking
- Working understanding of identity security risk, posture management, cloud entitlement management, Zero Trust concepts, and governance for machine identities and AI agents
- Ability to partner with infrastructure, operations, application, cloud, and business teams where identity operations are owned outside the information security team
- Ability to manage program roadmaps, budget input, technology evaluations, vendor relationships, implementation oversight, and stakeholder expectations
- Ability to communicate issues effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong work ethic with attention to detail
- Ability to excel in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment
- 7+ years of experience with identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, or security architecture
- 5+ years of experience with multiple authentication and authorization solutions, directory platforms, identity governance, privileged access, or related identity security technologies
- 3+ years of management or team leadership experience
- Proven ability to mentor, grow, and develop a team
- Experience managing technology vendors, implementation planning, and product roadmaps
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