IAM Lead - Program Management [IC Role]

Role Overview

Shape a more secure, seamless way for people and technology to access what they need. As an IAM Program Lead, you’ll own the Identity and Access Management roadmap from strategy through adoption-bringing security, technology, compliance, HR, application owners, and business teams together around measurable outcomes.

You’ll turn complex priorities into clear delivery plans, manage dependencies and trade-offs, and keep high-impact initiatives moving on time and within approved scope and budget. Your work will help reduce identity risk, strengthen controls, improve audit readiness, and create a better user experience.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff)

• Build and maintain a multi-year IAM roadmap that balances security risk, compliance needs, business priorities, technology constraints, and user experience.

• Lead IAM initiatives from planning through delivery and adoption, managing milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, scope, resources, and budgets.

• Partner with security, technology, infrastructure, HR, compliance, application owners, and business leaders to align priorities and drive cross-functional execution.

• Establish effective program rhythms, including planning reviews, status reporting, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and executive escalations.

• Define and track success measures such as access-review completion, joiner-mover-leaver effectiveness, privileged-access controls, authentication adoption, audit readiness, and risk reduction.

• Communicate clear, decision-focused updates to executives and technical teams, surfacing blockers early and driving recovery plans when delivery forecasts change.

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview

• 3-5+ years of experience managing complex cross-functional technology, security, infrastructure, product, or IAM programs.

• Experience building and managing roadmaps for IAM, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or enterprise technology initiatives.

• Proficiency with Jira or similar delivery and project-management tools, including dashboards and reporting.

• A track record of managing delivery against scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, risks, and budgets.

• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate priorities, risks, trade-offs, and outcomes to both executives and technical teams.

• Experience defining metrics, monitoring program health, and reporting on delivery outcomes, risk reduction, audit readiness, or control effectiveness.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

It would be great if you had these too, but we’ll support you if you don’t

• Experience delivering IAM or security-transformation programs, or modernizing enterprise infrastructure.

• Familiarity with governance, risk, and compliance practices and common IAM control objectives.

• Experience supporting change management, communications, training, or adoption for security and identity initiatives.

About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster. 

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast.  Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking.  Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity.  The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together.  At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

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What Diligent Offers You  

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people.  Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability - to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C.,  London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.  To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to  work onsite at least 50% of the time.  We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy  and US EEOC’s Know Your Rights. We are a drug free workplace. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. 

To support a fair and consistent hiring process, we use AI and digital automated tools to assist our recruitment team in organizing candidate data, surfacing relevant applications, coordinating interview scheduling and summarizing interview notes. All final screening, evaluation, and hiring decisions are made by humans on our team. To learn more about how we collect, protect, and process your information, please review our Candidate Privacy Policy.  

At Diligent, we recognize the value of a diverse global workforce. Visa sponsorship may be available for select positions based on business needs and specific role requirements. Sponsorship decisions are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and eligibility should not be assumed for all opportunities. 

Recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes