Principal Product Manager, Member

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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 perfo