Principal Product Manager — IAM & Identity Platform / Guard
About The Position
We are the product team behind Guard — the enterprise control plane for Atlassian: the layer that governs who can do what, under what policy, with what proof. The most defensible thing we build is the ability to govern Atlassian from inside Atlassian — at the identity, the permission, the policy decision, the configuration, the action, and the data. External SIEM, CASB, and agent-governance vendors look at Atlassian; only we can govern inside it. Our work spans five pillars: Identity & access foundations — SCIM, Units, External Users, Tenant Access Restrictions, service account lifecycle, API token management, FedRAMP parity. The plumbing that makes Atlassian legible to enterprise identity systems and unblocks migration. Roles & permissions — Custom Roles, Delegated Admin Roles, Unit Admin Role, PAM, granular admin permissions. The primitives that scope who can do what — for human admins and non-human actors alike. Policy platform — one unified, composable policy model (replacing dozens of bespoke policy types), enforced across Rovo, connectors, MCP, and admin APIs. AI & agent governance — the new frontier, built on pillars 1–3 rather than separate from them: the permission gateway (identity → policy → scoped token), MCP governance, on-behalf-of consent, and agent attribution. This is cross-cutting work that threads through every part of the team. Governance experience — Governance Manager, continuous monitoring, and auditor-ready evidence that turns the substrate into "you are enterprise-ready, here's how we know." Why now: Agent usage is scaling fast, enterprise migration hinges on our identity and policy foundations, and there is a real Premium upsell story tied to continuous governance. Identity and access ownership is fragmented across multiple engineering groups — one of our biggest organizational challenges and one of the most valuable problems to solve.
Requirements
- A Principal-level product manager comfortable operating with significant ambiguity and defining their own scope in partnership with leadership.
- Depth in platform / infrastructure product management — identity, access management, security, policy, or a closely related domain (bonus for IAM, IdP/SCIM, authorization/PDP, or AI/agent governance experience).
- Strong technical fluency — able to earn the trust of senior engineers and architects and reason about foundational primitives, not just surfaces.
- A track record of owning cross-cutting, multi-team problems where ownership is fragmented and no single team has the full picture.
- Ability to turn strategy into sequencing — making principled tradeoffs about what ships first and why.
- Enterprise and customer instincts — able to translate deep platform work into outcomes a CISO, admin, or auditor cares about.
- A bias toward wedge-first delivery over framework-first platform work with no concrete user.
Nice To Haves
- IAM, IdP/SCIM, authorization/PDP, or AI/agent governance experience.
Responsibilities
- Owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that don't sit cleanly inside one existing team's remit — e.g., the seams between identity, policy, admin, and AI governance where no one owns the outcome end-to-end.
- Driving strategy and technical product direction for foundational primitives (identity, permissions, policy, scoped tokens, agent governance) that many downstream surfaces depend on.
- Partnering deeply with engineering across teams whose ownership is split — aligning multiple eng groups around a coherent product direction rather than a stack of bolt-ons.
- Shaping and sequencing hard platform tradeoffs — substrate before surface, migration-blocking before net-new, one fabric with no parallel surfaces.
- Working cross-org with adjacent teams (Identity/NHI, Trust, Audit Log Platform, DLP/Detection, Central AI, Frontier) where our work shows up as a dependency in both directions.
- Wedge-driven delivery — standing up end-to-end scenarios that force a pattern into existence with real customer usage, then extending surface by surface.
- Representing the team with enterprise customers and internal stakeholders on the hardest identity, access, and AI-governance questions.
Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
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