Director, Product Architecture
About The Position
SailPoint is hiring a Director, Product Architecture to serve as the senior technical authority for authorization-related products across its portfolio. The role owns the architectural vision and drives its adoption across product teams. It is a hands-on individual-contributor position with company-wide influence and reports directly to the Chief Product Officer. The director will define SailPoint’s authorization architecture for human and agentic identities, including policy models, enforcement points, and delegation. The role will guide teams toward reusable authorization capabilities and a coherent customer experience, while partnering with Product Management and Engineering to turn architecture into roadmap and resolve cross-team design conflicts. It will also shape the company’s approach to emerging standards and protocols, support technical discussions with analysts, customers, and field teams, and produce architecture artifacts and technical narratives.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software architecture or product architecture, with significant depth in authorization, access control, or identity and access management.
- Strong command of authorization models, including RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and policy-as-code.
- Knowledge of modern identity protocols and distributed systems design.
- Experience shipping enterprise security or identity products at scale.
- Track record of driving alignment across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architecture to executives, customers, and engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to AI agent security, non-human identity, or API and gateway enforcement.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve SailPoint’s authorization architecture, including policy models, enforcement points, and delegation across the platform for human and agentic identities.
- Set the technical direction for building authorization capabilities once and reusing them across product teams to provide customers with a coherent experience.
- Partner with Engineering and Product Management to translate architecture into roadmap and resolve cross-team design conflicts.
- Track and shape emerging standards and protocols, including OAuth 2.x, token exchange, MCP, Shared Signals/CAEP, and policy languages such as Cedar and OPA; decide where SailPoint should lead or adopt.
- Support analyst, customer, and field conversations with technical depth, including discussions with CISO and CIO audiences.
- Produce clear architecture artifacts, reference designs, and technical narratives for product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
Benefits
- Eligibility for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, depending on the role.
- Potential eligibility for equity participation.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage.
- Supplemental life insurance options for employees, spouses, and children.
- Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, including a limited-purpose flexible spending account.
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Eight paid holidays annually.
- Sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Program and Care Counselors.
- Voluntary legal assistance, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, and pet insurance options.
- Health Savings Account with employer contribution.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
