Digital Identity Non-Human Identity, Machine Identity & Agentic Identity Associate Director
About the role
The Digital Identity Non-Human Identity, Machine Identity & Agentic Identity Associate Director position is designed to strengthen relationships with clients and provide seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. This role focuses on securing and governing identities used by applications, services, cloud workloads, APIs, automation platforms, DevOps pipelines, machines, bots, and AI agents.
Responsibilities
- Helping organizations secure identities beyond traditional workforce users
- Advising executive stakeholders on emerging risks associated with machine identities, cloud-native identities, automation, and AI agents
- Translating complex identity architecture concepts into practical business outcomes and measurable risk reduction
- Solving challenges that span IAM, PAM, IGA, cloud security, application security, and DevSecOps domains
- Building trusted relationships with clients and alliance partners
- Developing market-leading service offerings and go-to-market strategies
- Leading technical and business discussions across diverse stakeholder groups
- Building and mentoring high-performing consulting teams
- Contributing to proposals, sales pursuits, and thought leadership initiatives
- Staying at the forefront of evolving identity trends, platforms, and security challenges
Requirements
Identity Strategy and Advisory Experience delivering strategic IAM, PAM, NHI, or Machine Identity advisory services, including assessments, maturity evaluations, strategy development, and roadmap creation.
Experience designing enterprise operating models and governance frameworks for identity programs.
Ability to communicate technical and business risks to executive stakeholders and boards.
Experience developing identity security standards, policies, and control frameworks.
Hands-on experience securing and governing non-human identities including service accounts, application accounts, service principals, API keys, workload identities, container identities, automation accounts, bot identities, and AI-powered agents.
Experience addressing credential sprawl, secrets management, token lifecycle management, certificate lifecycle management, privileged service account governance, identity ownership and accountability, least privilege implementation, identity discovery and inventory.
Experience designing lifecycle processes for creation, ownership, approval, monitoring, certification, review, and retirement of machine identities.
Hands-on experience in architecting and implementing NHI/Secrets management solutions aligning with leading NHI frameworks such as OWASP.
Architect-level understanding of IAM capabilities including IGA, PAM, Access Management, authentication and authorization, and Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR).
Experience designing secure identity architectures leveraging OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, service-to-service authentication, and federated workload identity.
Experience designing or evaluating secrets management solutions, certificate lifecycle management solutions, key management architectures, cloud-native identity platforms, API authorization patterns, and Zero Trust architectures.
Cloud and Platform Security Experience with one or more of the following: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Managed Identities, AWS IAM, Google Cloud IAM, Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code environments, and cloud-native workload identity solutions.
Emerging Agentic Identity and AI Security While direct experience with Agentic Identity is not required, successful candidates will demonstrate experience applicable to AI-enabled identity use cases, including identity governance for autonomous systems, delegated authorization models, service-to-service authentication, automation and orchestration platforms, AI-enabled applications and workflows, human accountability models for non-human actors, secure access patterns for AI systems, and governance and lifecycle management of AI agents and autonomous workloads.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity)
- 9+ years working in IAM, PAM, cybersecurity consulting, cloud security, or related fields
- Experience within a consulting firm, systems integrator, software vendor, or large enterprise identity program is strongly preferred
- Professional certifications are strongly preferred, including CISSP, CCSP, Microsoft security certifications, CyberArk certifications, SailPoint certifications, Saviynt certifications, AWS certifications, and vendor-specific IAM or PAM credentials
- Experience building or leading a Machine Identity or Non-Human Identity program
- Experience with service account governance initiatives
- Experience with certificate lifecycle management programs
- Experience implementing workload identity federation
- Experience securing AI-enabled applications or autonomous systems
- Experience developing NHI security offerings, thought leadership, or market strategies
- Existing relationships with IAM, PAM, Cloud Security, DevOps, or AI Security leaders
Skills
- Identity Strategy and Advisory
- Machine Identity and Non-Human Identity
- Cloud and Platform Security
- AI Security
- Business Development and Market Leadership
- Leadership Experience
- Team Management
- Technical Expertise
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverages
FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
Life and accident insurance
Adoption and fertility assistance
Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks
Short/Long term disability
401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions
Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time
Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year
Pay
$155,000.00 - $264,000.00
Schedule
Full-time equivalent schedule