Lead Product Manager, Identity and Access

About the Team/Role

This Lead Product Manager, Identity & Access role sits within the Customer & Enterprise Experience organization and is responsible for driving WEX’s enterprise-wide identity strategy. This is a highly visible, board-level initiative focused on delivering a unified identity and single sign-on (SSO) experience across all WEX product lines. The role will define and execute a long-term vision for identity, ensuring secure, seamless, and scalable user experiences while reducing fraud risk. This individual will operate in a highly cross-functional environment, influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams without direct authority.

How you’ll make an impact

• Define and execute a long-term (5-year) identity and access strategy across all WEX lines of business

• Lead the development of a unified identity platform enabling single sign-on and a single customer profile

• Drive enterprise-wide identity initiatives spanning consumer identity, enterprise access management, and identity verification

• Partner with product, engineering, security, and business leaders to align on identity roadmap and execution

• Ensure successful migration and adoption of identity solutions across multiple product lines

• Balance trade-offs between security, user experience, and delivery timelines

• Lead roadmap execution for identity APIs, SDKs, and platform capabilities

• Stay current on industry trends including biometric authentication, decentralized identity, and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)

• Influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority

• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers across complex enterprise initiatives

Experience you’ll bring

• 10+ years of professional experience spanning product management and/or engineering

• Deep expertise in identity and access management (IAM/CIAM)

• Experience working with identity platforms such as Okta

• Strong technical acumen with ability to partner closely with engineering teams

• Proven ability to operate in complex, cross-functional enterprise environments

• Experience defining and driving product strategy at scale

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across organizations

• Strong understanding of identity domains including consumer identity, enterprise access management, and identity verification

• Familiarity with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and authentication methods (including biometrics)

• Bachelor’s degree required

What will give you an edge

• Experience in fintech, payments, or B2B SaaS environments

• Prior experience building or scaling enterprise identity platforms

• Experience working on fraud prevention or security-focused initiatives

• Experience creating long-term product vision from early or ambiguous starting points

• Advanced degree (MBA or Master’s)