Digital Identity Non-Human Identity, Machine Identity & Agentic Identity Associate Director

About the role

The ideal candidate combines executive-level client advisory skills, strong business development and market-facing capabilities, architect-level technical expertise, experience leading complex cybersecurity and identity programs, and passion for shaping emerging identity capabilities within the AI era.

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 designing secure identity architectures leveraging OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs, service-to-service authentication, and federated workload identity.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Company 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

Hybrid model combining working in person with a purpose and working remotely. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors.