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The Role
Do you dream of building secure and scalable systems that empower users and simplify access control? Are you passionate about building elegant solutions for complex authorization challenges? If so, we want you on our team!
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Principal Product Manager to join our new and growing team to develop a cutting-edge entitlements management and scalable authorization platform that powers secure and seamless access control across our fintech products.
You will own and define the vision, strategy, and product roadmap for the platform and drive execution of this mission critical system that will power all of SoFi as well as enable us to launch new commercial feature offerings. You will work closely with engineering, design, compliance, and business teams to create robust solutions that support our financial products, partners, and members.
The ideal candidate is forward-thinking, demonstrates exceptional ownership, is intellectually curious, dives below the surface to get to the truth and an outstanding leader.
You will join the Digital Identity group was formed last year to be the single threaded owner of all customer identity data. We focus on collecting, protecting, and distributing the critical data that enables SoFi to recognize and support customers as they move through digital product experiences. We work with some of our customers' most sensitive data, and we take privacy and security very seriously, moving towards a zero-trust architecture.
What You’ll Do
- Own and define the Entitlements and Fine grained Authorization( Access) product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, aligning with SoFi’s broader financial services ecosystem.
- Lead Platform Development: Work with engineering teams to design and build and augment the capabilities of Entitlement Management and Fine Grained Authorization(FGA) based Authorization Platform solutions.
- Ensure Security & Compliance: Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance regulatory requirements are met.
- Drive Interoperability & Integration: Enable seamless API-driven access control for all SoFi products, supporting fintech use cases such as payments, lending, and financial data access.
- Optimize Performance & Scalability: Build authorization services that handle high-scale, low-latency access requests efficiently.
- Monitor & Improve Authorization Policies: Establish KPIs, monitoring systems, and audit trails to continuously refine authorization policies and ensure system reliability.
- Engage with Stakeholders and drive Adoption: Act as the primary advocate for authorization solutions, driving adoption within SoFi as well as its enterprise partners, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, compliance, and other cross functional teams.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in any discipline (technical or non-technical)
- 7+ years of product management experience(technical), with at least 3 years focused on identity, access management, or authorization platforms.
- Proven experience building and scaling tier-1 consumer-focused authorization platforms, access control systems, or similar solutions.
- Deep understanding of RBAC, REBAC, FGA, JWT, and other modern authentication/authorization frameworks.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and security teams.
- Ability to define authorization policies, permission models, and API-based access control solutions.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making with the ability to define and measure key performance indicators.
- Experience with cloud-based authorization services (AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Google Zanzibar, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or similar) is a plus.
- Drive cross-functional execution by aligning across product teams, operations, legal, compliance, and other key stakeholders on priorities.
- Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, bringing clarity to ambiguous situations in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate new ideas
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with a strong ability to influence cross-functional teams
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to summarize complex issues
- Embody SoFi’s values in all aspects of your work
Nice to Have
- Engineering or Architecture Background: We strongly prefer candidates who have an engineering or software architecture background and have transitioned into platform product management.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems, and API-first architectures.
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Security Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Lead before moving into product management.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient platform services in fintech or enterprise environments.
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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