Product Manager III

IDEMIA•,

19h

About The Position

IDEMIA Public Security is hiring a Product Manager III to lead assigned Smart Credentials products. The role defines and communicates product vision, positioning, strategy, business priorities, and multi-year roadmaps, and owns product lifecycle activities from discovery and business case through requirements, development, qualification, launch, sustainment, migration, end-of-sale, and end-of-life. The Product Manager gathers customer, partner, sales, market, competitive, regulatory, and technical input and turns it into requirements, use cases, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs. The position prioritizes features and investments by balancing customer value, market opportunity, business impact, security and compliance, technical feasibility, cost, schedule, risk, and available resources. It coordinates cross-functional execution across internal teams and external suppliers, and supports customer discovery, presentations, demonstrations, proposals, RFIs/RFPs, questionnaires, and strategic account engagements. The portfolio includes smart cards and hardware authenticators for physical and logical access; PKI, FIDO2/passkeys, multifactor authentication, encryption, digital signatures, and passwordless authentication; contact, contactless, dual-interface, and hybrid credentials; and related operating systems, applets, personalization, key management, middleware, minidrivers, readers, APIs, SDKs, and management tools. The role also plans for current and emerging cryptography, including crypto-agility and post-quantum cryptography. The Product Manager drives new-product introduction and readiness, develops costing and pricing recommendations with partner teams, supports business cases and forecasts, leads product reviews, manages vendor and partner contributions, and ensures product requirements and launch decisions address applicable identity, cybersecurity, interoperability, quality, privacy, export, and regulatory obligations. After launch, the role monitors product performance and customer feedback and drives corrective actions, enhancements, documentation improvements, and portfolio simplification. It maintains product documentation such as roadmaps, requirements, decision records, playbooks, launch packages, lifecycle notices, and training materials.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in product management, business, engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in product management, product ownership, solution management, or a closely related role involving secure technology, identity, credentialing, cybersecurity, payment, access-control, or hardware/software products.
Demonstrated experience defining product strategy and roadmaps and taking products or significant features from concept through launch and lifecycle management.
Ability to convert customer and market needs into structured requirements, priorities, trade-off decisions, and measurable product outcomes.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex technical subjects to business, customer, and executive audiences.
Working knowledge of product-development practices, backlog management, release planning, and product documentation.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, make decisions with incomplete information, identify risks early, and drive issues to closure.
Ability to work with confidential customer, product, pricing, security, and technical information.

Nice To Haves

Experience with identity and access management, smart cards, hardware authenticators, PKI, FIDO, PIV/CIV, PACS, credential management, or secure-element products.
Familiarity with standards and programs such as FIPS 201, NIST SP 800-73, FIPS 140-3, ISO/IEC 7816, ISO/IEC 14443, GlobalPlatform, FIDO CTAP/WebAuthn, and cryptographic key-management practices.
Experience with government and regulated commercial customers, product certifications, qualification laboratories, manufacturing, personalization, or supply-chain partners.

Responsibilities

Define, maintain, and communicate product vision, positioning, strategy, business priorities, and multi-year roadmaps for assigned Smart Credentials products.
Own product lifecycle activities from discovery and business case through requirements, development, qualification, launch, sustainment, migration, end-of-sale, and end-of-life.
Gather and synthesize customer, partner, sales, market, competitive, regulatory, and technical input; translate it into requirements, use cases, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
Prioritize features and investments based on customer value, market opportunity, business impact, security and compliance requirements, technical feasibility, cost, schedule, risk, and available resources.
Coordinate cross-functional execution with engineering, applet and software teams, technical consultants, manufacturing, personalization, supply chain, quality, certification laboratories, marketing, sales, finance, legal, and third-party suppliers.
Manage Smart Credentials initiatives, including PIV and CIV smart cards, FIDO2 authenticators and USB security keys, dual-interface and hybrid credentials, PACS technologies such as Prox and DESFire EV3, middleware, minidrivers, credential-management tools, readers, and future cryptographic platforms.
Drive new-product introduction and readiness, including product definitions, part numbers and configurations, qualification plans, pricing inputs, product collateral, sales enablement, sample strategy, launch criteria, support readiness, and transition plans.
Develop product costing and pricing recommendations with finance, sourcing, manufacturing, and commercial teams; support business cases, forecasts, investment requests, and make-versus-buy evaluations.
Lead product reviews and report roadmap progress, decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, budget, customer commitments, and corrective actions.
Support customer discovery, technical and commercial presentations, demonstrations, proposals, RFIs/RFPs, product questionnaires, and strategic account engagements.
Manage vendor and partner contributions by defining scope, deliverables, interfaces, acceptance criteria, schedules, and escalation paths.
Ensure product requirements and launch decisions address applicable identity, cybersecurity, interoperability, quality, privacy, export, and regulatory obligations.
Monitor product performance and customer feedback after launch and drive corrective actions, enhancements, documentation improvements, and portfolio simplification.
Create and maintain product documentation, including roadmaps, requirements, decision records, product playbooks, launch packages, customer-facing descriptions, lifecycle notices, and internal training materials.