About This Role
This strategic, expertise-led role focuses on owning the vision for how millions of users securely sign in, authenticate, and access services across a global group. You will join the Digital Identity team as the go-to expert on customer identity, shaping a capability-led CIAM strategy independent of any single technology provider.
Responsibilities
- Define the CIAM vision and capability map, including authentication, MFA, passwordless and passkeys, federation, SSO and access authorisation, session and token management, risk-based and adaptive authentication, and credential and authenticator lifecycle management
- Anticipate market, technology, and regulatory shifts such as EUDI Wallet, verifiable credentials, eIDAS, PSD3, and agentic identity
- Conduct market intelligence, technology watch, and competitive benchmarking across CIAM and digital identity
- Define product principles, strategic options, and outcome-driven roadmap recommendations
- Work with Product Managers, architects, security specialists, and engineers to ensure capabilities are secure, scalable, and built to last
- Partner with business units and global programmes to drive convergence onto shared, reusable identity solutions
- Balance fraud prevention, security, user experience, and conversion
- Act as the internal reference on identity standards, from engineering teams to executive audiences
Requirements
- 5+ years in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Identity, Cybersecurity, SaaS, or platform environments
- Strong technical grounding in modern authentication and authorisation
- Hands-on experience with CIAM or identity platforms such as Ping Identity, Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock, or Microsoft Entra
- Solid understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, FIDO2, passkeys, federation, APIs, and tokens
- An analytical, data-driven mindset and the ability to turn complex inputs into clear recommendations
- Confidence influencing without formal authority in an international matrix organisation
Benefits
- Global scope and impact across millions of users
- A seat at the forefront of digital identity as passkeys, digital wallets, and agentic identity reshape the market
- A clear path to broader responsibilities within a central product organisation
- Hybrid working from a modern Paris headquarters
About the Company
Our client is a global leader in digital services and payments, operating in over 40 countries and serving millions of users every day. Headquartered in Paris, its central product organisation builds the shared platforms that business units around the world rely on.
