Product Manager, Authorize

About Ping Identity:  At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.  Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.  While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work.  We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management.  We’re hiring a Product Manager to drive Authorize, a key product solution of Ping Identity focused on the future of authorization. You’ll help shape how people and AI Agents securely access resources. You’ll work on one of the most exciting fields in digital identity: dynamic authorization. Ping’s Authorize solution is already in the market and rapidly gaining traction with global enterprises. The rapid rise of Agentic AI has accelerated interest and focus in this domain. You’ll partner with a team that moves fast, listens closely, and obsesses over user value.  The Product Manager role is an important part of Ping Identity’s worldwide go to market strategy for our products. You will report to the Group Product Manager for Authorization. You will contribute to and implement the product strategy by leading on all execution activities, creating product requirements, coordinating backlogs and owning the roadmap. You will be a close partner with both sales and engineering, acting as the voice of the customer for engineering, and providing insight and guidance on use cases to the field.  We are increasingly leveraging AI to accelerate delivery, enhance decision-making, and improve overall effectiveness across the product lifecycle, and you will have the opportunity to drive how this evolves at Ping. This is a high-impact role, focused on building the next generation of authorization capability that will be foundational to Ping’s platforms in the Agentic era. What You’ll Do Maintain and own the multi-quarter product roadmap, backlog, and quarterly feature delivery, and influence and implement the product strategy for PingOne Authorize (multi-tenant SaaS) and PingAuthorize (on-premises software) Leverage AI tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness across product management workflows, including research, analysis, documentation, prioritization, and cross-functional communication. Gather market, customer, prospect, and partner input to understand customer scenarios and technical requirements, uncover pain points and unmet needs, and act as technical expert on customer use cases. Provide detailed input into the product planning process and priority of features for communication to engineering. Develop technical requirements and collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales to build, launch, and refine high-quality and polished features that meet customer and market needs. Perform market analysis, identifying industry trends, strategic needs, and competitive pressures to inform product direction. Become a subject matter expert on authorization and the Authorize products, helping to scale understanding and adoption of externalized authorization internally and externally. What You’ll Bring 3+ years of work experience in cloud computing in a product management or engineering role. Knowledge of identity and access management, fine-grained authorization or identity use cases, standards and technology. A history of managing product development lifecycles to consistently deliver high-quality releases. Comfort in discussing product capabilities and market relevance to end-users, partners, engineers, analysts. The ability to gather and prioritize market data to maintain a product roadmap. Able to synthesize technical information into crisp recommendations and present and defend recommendations to a variety of audiences. Strong project/program management leadership including scope, schedule, budget, quality, communications. Able to create effective relationships, influence and collaborate internally and externally at all organizational levels. Proven strength solving technical problems by driving cross-team collaboration, ownership, and accountability. High-agency and extreme ownership: You consistently take initiative, drive progress without waiting for direction, and assume accountability for outcomes Creative and enthusiasm to boost efficiency with AI, through workflows, tools, or automation. Process-focused mindset: you bring clarity and consistency to how work gets done: You establish clear, repeatable processes that align teams and ensure predictable delivery. Life at Ping: We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day.  Here are just a few of the things that make Ping special: A company culture that empowers you to do your best work. Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone. Regular company and team bonding events. Competitive benefits and perks. Global volunteering and community initiatives Our Benefits:  Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule  Parental Leave Progressive Healthcare Options Retirement Programs Opportunity for Education Reimbursement  Commuter Offset (Specific locations)  Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.