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# Product Manager (Identity)

- **Company:** Lorien
- **Location:** Costa Mesa, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000 - $225,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, User Authentication, Single Sign-On, Large Language Models
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6bf463910aea412c

## About the Role

Lorien has an exciting opportunity for a Digital Product Manager to join our defense technology client on a full-time basis. This is a high ownership role in which you'll manage an identity product used by teams across the company. The ideal candidate brings 6-8+ years of product management experience, thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys autonomy/owning work end-to-end., * 6-8+ years of product management experience, including owning a roadmap & its outcomes for an engineering team

 * Ability to leverage data to make tough prioritization calls
 * Strong customer instincts, including proactive communication, expectation management, & a service-oriented mindset with internal and/or external customers
 * Technical depth to partner credibly with engineers (APIs, authentication, SSO or similar)
 * Experience using data, experiments & customer feedback to improve adoption, activation or retention
 * Experience writing PRDs & managing work in Jira
 * Hands-on experience running customer research & interviews
 * Strong written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver difficult news when necessary, while demonstrating empathy
 * Self-starter who can own initiatives end-to-end
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a top secret security clearance
 * Experience a new product or major capability, from concept to adoption

 * Experience running A/B tests and improving a team's delivery speed or process
 * Experience with identity, security, API or developer-facing products, especially access-request or governance platforms that are configured to fit a company is preferred
 * Experience reducing operational or support load through product improvements is preferred
 * Familiarity with AI-powered integrations, MCP or LLM-based product features is highly preferred

## Description

* Own the vision & roadmap for an identity product, and the results that come from it, not just the delivery
 * Set clear priorities with the team & keep the work on track against the roadmap
 * Gather requests from across the company & prioritize which ones ship first, communicating the updates clearly to stakeholders
 * Partner closely with engineering leadership to solution on behalf of internal customers
 * Lead customer engagement & rollout: communicate what's coming, set expectations & help new features get adopted
 * Help reduce operational load by turning recurring requests into automated, user-friendly workflows
 * Help shape role-based access bundles to consolidate onboarding-related tasks & requests
 * Contribute to the assessment of the company's unique needs and workflows, and help decide where to configure & where to build
 * Collaborate with engineering on technical roadmap, from authentication & access flows to developer-facing APIs
 * Write product requirements documents (PRDs), outline early concepts with design & engineering, and break the work into small, clear steps the team can deliver one at a time
 * Use customer interviews, product analytics & experiments to help direct investment appropriately
 * Partner with design, security & data teams, and gather feedback from internal stakeholders & customers