About the Role
Global Payments is seeking a Senior Technical Product Owner, IAM Emerging Tech to shape the future of global commerce by driving the vision and delivery of next-generation identity capabilities. This role will strengthen security, reduce risk, and accelerate growth by translating emerging threats, evolving regulations, and innovative technologies into measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term IAM product strategy, delivering a multi-year roadmap.
- Reduce security risk, improve operational efficiency, and enable scalable digital growth.
- Drive adoption of AI-powered identity capabilities, improving governance, automation, and decision-making.
- Accelerate the maturity of the identity program.
- Lead cross-functional delivery of strategic identity initiatives, aligning Security, Engineering, Compliance, Data, and Business teams.
- Achieve business outcomes, strengthen resilience, and maximize return on investment.
- Establish data-driven visibility into identity risk, delivering actionable insights and transparent performance measures.
- Enable informed decisions and continuous improvement across the organization.
- Champion innovative and friction-right identity experiences, balancing security, compliance, and usability.
- Improve stakeholder adoption, strengthen trust, and support business objectives globally.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex Identity and Access Management and security product initiatives.
- Track record of delivering measurable outcomes across multiple stakeholders and business functions.
- Deep expertise across Identity and Access Management domains, including authentication, authorization, identity governance and administration, privileged access management, directory services, machine identity, and modern identity protocols.
- Hands-on experience implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions within security or identity environments.
- Experience with AI governance, risk management, automation, and operational performance measurement.
- Strong product leadership capabilities.
- Experience building business cases, defining objectives and key results, prioritizing roadmaps, and driving alignment from strategy through execution.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, executive-ready recommendations that drive action and results.
Skills
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Security Product Initiatives
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Security/Identity
- Product Leadership
- Business Case Development
- Roadmap Prioritization
- Communication
- Influencing
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant industry certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), cloud security certifications, or Identity and Access Management platform certifications.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunities to grow skills and build career within a global business
- Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences
- Supportive, inclusive team environment
- Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
- Global employee assistance programme
- Recognition through a global platform
About the Company
- Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.
- The worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.
- Driven by passion for success, delivering best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.
- Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces.
- Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), empowers simple, fast, secure payments for everyone.
- Built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world.
- Team of 27,000 experts.
- Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500.
- Worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Equal Opportunity
- Global Payments is an organization that stands against racism, intolerance and injustice in all its forms — one that respects, honors and celebrates the diversity of our team members and the differences among us.
- Commitment to fostering a company culture that values and respects Inclusion and Diversity is steadfast.
- Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer.
- Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.
- Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.
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