Sr Manager, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

The Senior Manager of Identity & Access Management (IAM) is responsible for leading IAM engineering, operations, and modernization initiatives supporting Mattel’s enterprise identity security program. This leadership role helps drive the evolution of identity services and security capabilities across workforce identity, privileged access, cloud authentication, identity governance, and identity threat protection.

The role provides technical leadership, operational oversight, and team management for IAM architects, engineers, analysts, and cross-functional technology teams to ensure identity platforms and services are secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise business objectives. The role supports a globally distributed IAM organization responsible for workforce identity, privileged access, and cloud identity services across hybrid environments.

This position partners closely with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, HR Technology, Application Development, Compliance, and business stakeholders to support secure digital transformation initiatives across a global enterprise environment.

Join a globally recognized brand undergoing significant digital and cybersecurity transformation, where identity security plays an important role in supporting secure workforce access, operational resilience, and enterprise modernization initiatives.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

IAM Program Delivery & Operational Leadership

• Support development and execution of IAM roadmaps, operational maturity initiatives, and modernization efforts aligned with cybersecurity strategy, business priorities, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead implementation of IAM modernization initiatives involving single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), passwordless authentication, identity governance, adaptive authentication, privileged access management (PAM), and Zero Trust security principles.
• Support IAM governance processes, operational standards, KPIs, SLAs, and metrics to measure service effectiveness, operational health, and risk reduction.
• Develop operational dashboards, reporting, metrics, and documentation to support program visibility, operational maturity, and decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, operational scalability, resiliency, and user experience optimization.
• Support vendor management, licensing activities, and evaluation of emerging IAM and identity security technologies.

IAM Architecture, Engineering & Operations

• Lead IAM architecture, engineering, and operations functions supporting workforce identity, privileged access, cloud identity, and hybrid identity environments.
• Oversee identity lifecycle automation initiatives, including Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) processes integrating Workday, Okta, Active Directory, Entra ID, and downstream enterprise applications.
• Ensure operational excellence across IAM platforms and services, including monitoring, resiliency, disaster recovery readiness, incident management, escalation handling, and business continuity planning.
• Oversee implementation and integration of identity technologies leveraging platforms such as Okta Identity Cloud, CyberArk, Okta Privileged Access, Microsoft Entra ID, and related IAM solutions.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Application teams to embed secure authentication, authorization, and identity governance capabilities into enterprise and cloud-native architectures.
• Promote engineering excellence through automation, scripting, infrastructure-as-code, workflow orchestration, and API-driven integrations.

Identity Security & Threat Protection

• Lead privileged access management (PAM) operational governance initiatives supporting least privilege access, Just-in-Time (JIT) access, and Zero Trust security models.
• Drive adoption of modern identity security practices, including passwordless authentication, adaptive access controls, continuous verification, and risk-based authentication.
• Support identity-related incident response