Product Manager, Identity

Tailscale

15h•$177,000 - $221,000•Remote

About The Position

Tailscale is seeking a Product Manager to own its Identity ecosystem, bridging its Zero Trust networking approach with customers’ existing identity infrastructure. Identity is foundational to access control: the role connects complex protocols such as OIDC, SAML, and SCIM with a seamless user experience. The Identity portfolio spans the end-to-end lifecycle of users and devices within a tailnet, including authentication through external identity providers, authorization through roles, groups, attributes, and network policies, and lifecycle management through onboarding, offboarding, and synchronization. These capabilities support enterprise deployments, including multi-identity-provider configurations and automated lifecycle management. The Product Manager will set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for identity products and experiences; improve administrators’ tools and end-user authentication; collaborate across engineering, product, and design; and build customer insight across Tailscale’s range of users. The role is remote-first, with the company primarily working remotely.

Requirements

4–7 years of product management experience, with direct ownership of an identity product or platform.
Strong technical fluency in identity protocols, including OIDC, SAML, SCIM, WebAuthn, and OAuth flows.
Experience shipping products for developer or security-focused audiences, with an understanding of modern IAM friction points and how to build tools admins and developers enjoy using.
Demonstrated ability to own a product area end to end, including strategy, roadmap, execution, and customer relationships.
An operational mindset and understanding that downtime or misconfiguration in an identity product can be a security event.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Tailscale at work or home.
Background working with identity providers such as Okta, Azure Entra ID/Active Directory, or Google Workspace, or with Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) architectures.
Experience with cloud-native identity concepts such as service mesh and workload identity federation.
Public technical writing, conference talks, or open-source contributions in the security or identity space.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Tailscale’s Identity portfolio, including workload and agent identity, SSO integrations, Directory Sync (SCIM), access controls and policy, and user management.
Own the operator experience for administrators configuring identity providers, auditing authentication events, and managing user, workload, and agent access policies at scale across the admin console, API, and clients.
Build a fast, secure, and intuitive authentication experience for end users.
Partner with engineering, product, and design to ensure Tailscale’s identity service meets broader organizational needs and integrates with other platform components.
Build systematic customer insight across Tailscale users, from homelab operators to regulated enterprises.
Turn customer feedback, support patterns, cross-product requests, and competitive dynamics into roadmap priorities.

Benefits

Base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
Inclusive and flexible work environment.
Comprehensive group health, vision, and dental benefits with no waiting period.
Remote-first work environment, with access to a corporate co-working program and virtual and in-person social events.
Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar, up to an annual employer contribution of 0.75% of eligible compensation.
Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for team travel and in-person collaboration.
$1,500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
Flexible paid time off.
Company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize a home workstation.
Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.