Director, Product Architecture

SailPoint is defining how identity security works for humans, machines, and AI agents. As Director of Product Architecture, you will be the senior technical authority for authorization-related products across our product portfolio. You will own the architectural vision and drive its adoption across product teams. This is a hands-on IC role with company-wide influence, reporting directly to Chief Product Officer.

What you’ll do

• Define and evolve SailPoint’s authorization architecture, covering policy models, enforcement points, and delegation across the platform, for both human and agentic identities.
• Set the technical direction for how authorization capabilities are built once and reused across product teams, so customers get one coherent experience.
• Work with Engineering and Product Management to turn architecture into roadmap, and to resolve cross-team design conflicts.
• Track and shape emerging standards and protocols (OAuth 2.x, token exchange, MCP, Shared Signals/CAEP, policy languages such as Cedar and OPA) and decide where SailPoint leads and where it adopts.
• Support analyst, customer, and field conversations with credible technical depth, including CISO and CIO audiences.
• Produce clear architecture artifacts, reference designs, and technical narratives that product, engineering, and GTM teams can act on.

What you bring

• 12+ years in software architecture or product architecture, with significant depth in authorization, access control, or identity and access management.
• Strong command of authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, policy-as-code), modern identity protocols, and distributed systems design.
• Experience shipping enterprise security or identity products at scale.
• A track record of driving alignment across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Exposure to AI agent security, non-human identity, or API and gateway enforcement is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to explain complex architecture to executives, customers, and engineers alike.

Success looks like

• A single, well-understood authorization architecture adopted across the product teams.
• Faster, more consistent delivery of authorization capabilities, with less duplicated effort.
• SailPoint recognized by customers and analysts as a leader in authorization for the agentic era.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.  

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12+ years in software or product architecture with depth in authorization, access control, or IAM; strong command of authorization models and identity protocols; experience shipping enterprise security products; excellent communication.

Key Responsibilities

• defining architectural vision
• driving adoption
• resolving design conflicts

Skills & Tools

OAuth 2.x, Cedar, OPA

Job Details

• Category: Product Management
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — United States or California
• Salary: USD 166,800 – 281,194 / year
• Languages: English

Benefits

• 401k matching
• Generous paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Generous parental leave

About SailPoint

A company defining the new era of adaptive identity security with an AI-powered platform. — Industry: Information Technology