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 a senior leadership role within Protiviti's Digital Identity team. This role specializes in Non-Human Identity (NHI), Machine Identity, Workload Identity, and Emerging Agentic Identity, focusing 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
• 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 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.

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.

Skills

• 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 with service-to-service authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, and cloud-native workload identity solutions.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code environments, and cloud-native workload identity solutions.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Managed Identities, AWS IAM, Google Cloud IAM, and other NHI, PAM, and Identity Security platforms.
• Experience with emerging agentic identity and AI security 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.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes 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, and short/long term disability. We also offer a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Pay

$155,000.00 - $264,000.00

Schedule

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity.