Lead Product Manager, Verifications​/AgeKeys

About Open Age Initiative

Open Age Initiative is a public interest effort to reimagine how age is established online: protecting digital youth from unwanted harms without compromising the privacy and freedom of adults.

At the core of Open Age is Age Key, a reusable, passkey-based age credential that enables age checks without identity disclosure. This privacy-preserving, user-centric approach has earned unusually broad support from leading social platforms, privacy advocates, and organizations that have historically opposed age-assurance mandates altogether.

Open Age operates as a neutral, interoperable layer rather than a closed system. We bring together a diverse and growing set of partners including verification and identity providers such as Socure, Persona, Incode, and Veratad. Over 5 million verifications have been completed during our beta phase.

We are a small, senior team building foundational digital infrastructure with global impact. We believe safety, privacy, and usability are not trade-offs but design requirements.

Open Age is incubated within k-, the global leader in privacy-first compliance and age verification infrastructure. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and named a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, k- building the Age Layer for the internet. Open Age is a division of k-, operating with independent governance and an advisory board that ensures transparency, vendor neutrality, and accountability.

Billions of age checks happen every year, and nearly all of them force users to choose between privacy and access. We are looking for a Senior Product Lead to end that trade-off by owning Age Keys, our privacy-preserving, reusable age credential that is redefining how age assurance works across the internet, and our Verifications platform, the hosted orchestration layer that powers age verification and creates Age Keys.

Age Keys is infrastructure work with global impact. You will build turnkey solutions that enable industry-wide adoption, drive interoperability with mDLs, digital IDs, and other forms of true age signals, and navigate the ecosystem to make Age Keys the standard for age assurance.

Our Verifications platform handles the critical work of age verification through facial age estimation,  verification, credit card checks, and jurisdiction-specific methods. You will ship features that make this stack best-in-class while ensuring it seamlessly feeds the Age Keys ecosystem. k-'s Age Kit+ is one branded implementation of this platform.

This is a high-stakes product role at the intersection of age verification expertise and digital identity. You will partner with leadership on strategy while owning the day-to-day product decisions that turn vision into shipped software.

• Location: United Kingdom or Eastern USA (preferred), Global (remote)

• Own the Age Keys Product Vision and Roadmap
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  Ship products that enable any verification provider or platform to adopt Age Keys as the neutral, interoperable standard for age assurance across the open internet. Drive interoperability with mDLs, digital IDs, wallet credentials, and other forms of true age signals. Envision and build family-focused Age Keys - a solution that reimagines how digital youth and their families interact with age credentials across platforms.

• Drive Verifications Platform Execution: Own the product backlog and ship features for our hosted age verification platform. Prioritize verification methods, define and optimize delightful, fast, and high-trust UX flows. Resolve conflicting age signals across methods. Pioneer intelligent orchestration — waterfalls, fallback logic, and method selection — that sets the industry standard for verification accuracy and powers Age Key creation at scale.

• Security, Fraud Prevention, and System Resilience: Ensure all processes are auditable and regulatory-approved for strong double-blind verification with no path to traceability or trackability of users across the internet. Design revocation, expiration, and risk-scoring models that anticipate fraud vectors including industrialized credential creation, key sharing, and…