Senior Consultant - IAM Product Owner

Kalles Group•Seattle, WA

5h•Remote

About The Position

As an IAM Product Owner Senior Consultant, you will support our client’s cybersecurity organization by driving delivery for a rapidly evolving Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform. In this role, you will act as the critical bridge between product strategy and execution—translating complex identity, authentication, and security requirements into clear, actionable work for agile delivery teams. You will take ownership of team-level backlog management, ensuring that priorities are well-defined, dependencies are understood, and work is consistently ready for execution. Partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, and Cybersecurity stakeholders, you will bring clarity to scope, reduce ambiguity, and enable predictable delivery across a multi-team program. You will also play a key role in release readiness, helping coordinate delivery across teams while ensuring quality, risk awareness, and alignment with broader platform objectives.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Product Owner in Agile/Scrum environments
Proven ability to translate technical requirements into actionable backlog items and user stories
Strong experience writing clear acceptance criteria and ensuring delivery readiness
Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies and sequencing across multiple teams
Experience supporting release planning and coordination in multi-team delivery environments
Experience working in cybersecurity, identity (IAM/CIAM), financial services, or other regulated industries
Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to drive clarity across stakeholders
Ability to identify risks early and proactively manage delivery challenges

Nice To Haves

Experience working with CIAM platforms such as Okta, Ping Identity, or similar solutions
Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML
Experience supporting digital platforms or customer-facing identity systems
Background working closely with engineering teams, supporting prioritization and backlog refinement
Experience contributing to or supporting large-scale platform or transformation initiatives

Responsibilities

Own and manage the team-level backlog, ensuring alignment with CIAM product strategy and roadmap priorities
Translate complex identity and cybersecurity requirements into clear, testable user stories with defined acceptance criteria
Ensure backlog items meet a strong Definition of Ready prior to sprint planning
Maintain prioritization that reflects business value, security requirements, and cross-team dependencies
Lead and support agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and demos
Provide clarity on scope boundaries, ensuring teams understand what is in and out of scope
Identify and escalate ambiguity, risks, and potential scope drift early in the delivery lifecycle
Track and manage cross-team dependencies, ensuring proper sequencing and coordination
Partner with Program Management to contribute to RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)
Support release planning and coordination, ensuring features are well-defined, tested, and ready for deployment
Collaborate with Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to validate release readiness, including risk mitigation and rollback planning
Assist in coordinating go/no-go decisions with clear communication of scope, risks, and known issues
Support post-release validation and issue resolution to ensure stable and successful deployments

Benefits

The annual salary range for this role is $130,000-$160,000.
Work/life balance – we know there’s more to life than work! We encourage our team to pursue other passions, get outside, and spend time with family. We work with clients and consultants to set expectations for a manageable workload.

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