Senior Manager, Engineering - Identity & Access Management

The role

You will lead the Identity & Access Management Platform team to deliver an enterprise-grade access management platform. You will manage engineers, set roadmaps, and run an AI-native team to scale access and identity capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, and develop the IAM Platform engineering team
• Own the delivery of ClickUp's enterprise-grade access management platform
• Set the roadmap and priorities in partnership with product, security, and engineering leadership
• Run an AI-native team using AI flows to remove status meetings and manual reporting
• Partner with enterprise customers, GTM, and security teams on access-control and identity requirements
• Own operational excellence for high-blast-radius services
• Uphold a high engineering bar for design, code review, testing, performance, and security
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, platform, product, design, and infosec

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production SaaS
• 3+ years managing engineering teams including senior engineers
• Identity and access management experience including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA/2FA, enterprise SSO, SCIM, and RBAC/permission and role models
• Proven ability to use AI tools and agentic workflows to reduce noise and streamline work
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS at scale
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and their security, compliance, and administrative requirements
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams
• Technical depth to lead architecture discussions and make trade-offs on high-blast-radius systems
• Security-conscious mindset
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Daily fluency with AI tools in your own workflow

Nice to have

• Experience owning IAM or authorization at scale
• Experience designing configuration-driven or policy-based access models (RBAC/ABAC), authorization engines, or Zero Trust identity
• Experience with SCIM provisioning, audit logging, and enterprise compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar)
• A track record of moving a product upmarket and winning demanding enterprise customers
• Experience introducing AI-native or agent-driven operating models to an engineering team
• Experience managing engineers across backend and frontend, or managing other leads

About the company

ClickUp is an AI-native company building a converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search.