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 part of Protiviti's growing Digital Identity team. This leader will help clients address the fast-growing challenge of 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

• Identity Strategy and Advisory Experience
• 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 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
• 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 in-person and remote work. Remote and in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors.