Product Manager III

Overview

IDEMIA Public Security, a division of IDEMIA Group, is the leading provider of secure and trusted biometric-based solutions, transforming public and private organizations across the globe. Our industry-enabled and client-specific solutions draw upon decades of expertise in biometrics to revolutionize the fields of public security, justice and public safety, travel and transport, identity, and access control. Built on privacy and trust, our market-leading iris, fingerprint and facial recognition solutions top independent benchmarking for accuracy, fairness and scalability. These exacting standards enable our clients to build safer, fairer societies where people can live, interact, and move about freely. With 4000+ employees around the world and 150+ partners worldwide, we offer more than just a job - we provide a dynamic environment where innovation thrives, opportunities abound, and your talents are valued. Be part of a global leader shaping the future of biometric based technology. Learn more here.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and communicate product vision, positioning, strategy, business priorities, and multi-year roadmaps for assigned Smart Credentials products.
• Own product lifecycle activities from discovery and business case through requirements, development, qualification, launch, sustainment, migration, end-of-sale, and end-of-life.
• Gather and synthesize customer, partner, sales, market, competitive, regulatory, and technical input. Translate that input into clear product requirements, use cases, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
• Prioritize features and investments based on customer value, market opportunity, business impact, security and compliance requirements, technical feasibility, cost, schedule, risk, and available resources.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution with engineering, applet and software teams, technical consultants, manufacturing, personalization, supply chain, quality, certification laboratories, marketing, sales, finance, legal, and third-party suppliers.
• Manage assigned Smart Credentials initiatives such as PIV and CIV smart cards, FIDO2 authenticators and USB security keys, dual-interface and hybrid credentials, PACS technologies including Prox and DESFire EV3, middleware, minidrivers, credential-management tools, readers, and future cryptographic platforms.
• Drive new-product introduction and product readiness, including product definitions, part numbers and configurations, qualification plans, pricing inputs, product collateral, sales enablement, sample strategy, launch criteria, support readiness, and transition plans.
• Develop product costing and pricing recommendations in partnership with finance, sourcing, manufacturing, and commercial teams. Support business cases, forecasts, investment requests, and make-versus-buy evaluations.
• Lead product reviews and provide clear status on roadmap progress, decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, budget, customer commitments, and corrective actions.
• Support customer discovery, technical and commercial presentations, demonstrations, proposals, RFIs/RFPs, product questionnaires, and strategic account engagements.
• Manage vendor and partner contributions by defining scope, deliverables, interfaces, acceptance criteria, schedules, and escalation paths.
• Ensure product requirements and launch decisions address applicable identity, cybersecurity, interoperability, quality, privacy, export, and regulatory obligations.
• Monitor product performance and customer feedback after launch. Drive corrective actions, enhancements, documentation improvements, and portfolio simplification.
• Create and maintain reliable product documentation, including roadmaps, requirements, decision records, product playbooks, launch packages, customer-facing descriptions, lifecycle notices, and internal training material.

Product and Domain Scope

• Smart cards and hardware authenticators supporting physical and logical access and use within enterprise.
• PKI, FIDO2/passkeys, multifactor authentication, encryption, digital signature, and passwordless authentication.
• Contact, contactless, dual-interface, and hybrid credentials integrating technologies such as Prox, DESFire EV3, LEAF, and related PACS capabilities.
• Smart-card operating systems, Java Card applets, GlobalPlatform, personalization and pre-personalization profiles, key management, middleware, minidrivers, readers, APIs, SDKs, and management tools.
• Current and emerging cryptography, including crypto-agility and post-quantum cryptography planning.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in product management, business, engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in product management, product ownership, solution management, or a closely related role for secure technology, identity, credentialing, cybersecurity, payment, access-control, or hardware/software products.
• Demonstrated experience defining product strategy and roadmaps and taking products or significant features from concept through launch and lifecycle management.
• Ability to convert customer and market needs into structured requirements, priorities, trade-off decisions, and measurable product outcomes.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical subjects to business, customer, and executive audiences.
• Working knowledge of product-development practices, backlog management, release planning, and product documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, make decisions with incomplete information, identify risks early, and drive issues to closure.
• Ability to work with confidential customer, product, pricing, security, and technical information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with identity and access management, smart cards, hardware authenticators, PKI, FIDO, PIV/CIV, PACS, credential management, or secure-element products.
• Familiarity with relevant standards and programs such as FIPS 201, NIST SP 800-73, FIPS 140-3, ISO/IEC 7816, ISO/IEC 14443, GlobalPlatform, FIDO CTAP/WebAuthn, and cryptographic key-management practices.
• Experience with government and regulated commercial customers, product certifications, qualification laboratories, manufacturing, personalization, or supply-chain partners.

Note to third-party recruiters: IDEMIA Public Security does not work with third-party recruiters absent a signed agreement and will treat any resumes submitted without a signed agreement as the property of IDEMIA Public Security. In the event that IDEMIA Public Security hires a candidate who was brought to our attention by a recruiter who does not have a signed agreement, IDEMIA Public Security will not pay any fees to the recruiter as a result of the hire.