What you’ll do as a Staff Product Manager at Vanta:

• Own the IAM product vision and roadmap, setting direction for authentication, authorization, user modeling, and ownership frameworks in close partnership with engineering leadership
• Drive the User Model split to completion — separating IAM Users (auth/permissions) from Personnel Records (GRC/compliance) in a complex, cross-team data migration with org-wide impact
• Define Ownership 3.0 — chart the path from binary object-level ownership to customer-customizable, role-based permissions that serve both startups and large enterprises
• Shape Vanta's authorization strategy proactively, ensuring product teams build on shared platform capabilities rather than ad hoc permission solutions
• Contribute to multi-tenant access architecture, enabling seamless cross-domain experiences for auditors, MSPs, and multi-workspace enterprise customers
• Navigate complex cross-team dependencies across GRC, Trust, Collaboration, and PEX — all of which have authorization needs that this role must harmonize
• Partner deeply with engineering and technical domain experts to balance enterprise complexity with comprehensibility for smaller customers
• Translate technical IAM concepts into clear business value for leadership, GTM teams, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

What You'll Bring:

• 8-12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3-4 years at a Staff/Senior level in platform or infrastructure roles
• Enterprise platform PM experience: you've worked on permissions, RBAC, multi-tenancy, or identity systems at scale in B2B SaaS
• Systems thinking: you can reason about how authentication, authorization, and identity interconnect and affect every product surface — and explain it simply
• Strong cross-functional collaboration: this role touches every team at Vanta and requires building consensus across Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM
• Storytelling for technical concepts: you can explain why an authorization architecture decision matters to non-technical stakeholders and translate complex IAM concepts into clear business value
• Customer empathy at multiple scales: you understand that a 10-person startup and a federal agency have vastly different permission needs, and can design systems that serve both
• Comfort with ambiguity: you've navigated complex platform problems with many open design questions and competing stakeholder needs

Nice to have:

• Experience with policy engines (Oso, OPA, Cedar) or authorization architecture patterns
• Background in GRC, compliance, or security-adjacent products
• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architectures

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

Compensation Range:

• $221K - $260K
• Offers Equity
• This role is also eligible for medical benefits, 401(k) plan, and other company perk programs.