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# Director, Identity Standards

- **Company:** Ping Identity
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $225,000.0 - $332,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Design Patterns
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-director-identity-standards-ping-identity-2-10126615

## About the Role

The ideal candidate combines technical credibility with commercial instinct: comfortable in standards bodies, comfortable in front of customers, and comfortable in front of an industry audience.

## Description

Standards Leadership

 * Actively contribute to relevant identity and AI standards efforts, and support other internal contributors participating in those bodies
 * Help ensure the company's standards engagement reflects a coherent, forward-looking strategy rather than isolated participation

Strategic Partnerships

 * Develop and cultivate relationships with key ecosystem players to build joint reference architectures
 * Guide and support the TAP team as they establish design partnerships and technical integrations with external organizations

Emerging Trends

 * Monitor and track activity across the identity and AI ecosystem
 * Translate ecosystem signals into directional recommendations for the product team

Technical Evangelism

 * Represent the company externally as a leading voice on identity for AI
 * Speak at industry events, conferences, and forums to build the company's reputation and influence in this space

Internal Evangelism

 * Drive internal alignment around reference architectures and standard design patterns
 * Act as a bridge between standards work, product direction, and go-to-market strategy


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