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Manager, Privileged Access Management; PAM

Job in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 53244, USA
Listing for: Northwestern Mutual
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-04
Job specializations:
  • Management
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 130000 - 225000 USD Yearly USD 130000.00 225000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the role

We are seeking an experienced Manager of IAM to lead and mature our Privileged Access Management (PAM) team. This is a people-first management role responsible for a large team of engineers and analysts. You will work as an engineering leader responsible for strategy, delivery, and operation of our enterprise PAM Program—driving automation of Elevated Privilege (EP) discovery and vaulting, managing EP access requests and certifications, non-human identity (NHI) governance and management, and delivering zero standing privilege and just-in-time access cess in this role requires operating at a high tempo while maintaining strong operational disciple and driving automation, continuous improvement, and measurable impact for our customers and the business.

We are looking for an IAM Manager with experience in building high-performing teams, influencing stakeholders, and delivering measurable business outcomes.

What You’ll Do
  • Define and execute the multi-year IAM/PAM strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, risk reduction, and regulatory compliance.
  • Own the end-to-end PAM program: non-human identity and agentic AI security frameworks and access control, secrets lifecycle management, service account certifications, PAM tooling capability development and deployment, and reporting.
  • Accountable for a full range of people manager responsibilities including communication, coaching, mentoring and staff development, performance management, salary administration, and staffing decisions.
  • Perform functional management duties to ensure optimum effectiveness and quality by managing adherence to strategies, goals, budgets, operating policies and procedures as an NM frontline manager.
  • Accountable for translating the departmental strategy to IAM security operational objectives (OKR) including both systems and processes.
  • Drives for results through others to include:
    Integrating and designing measurement systems, targets and specific initiatives in support of the various strategies.
  • Partner with other IAM teams, including IGA, Directory Services, and Cloud IAM, to implement Elevated Privilege access controls across all applications and systems.
  • Accountable for providing guidance and escalation avenues for the business unit based on understanding the business values, goals, work processes and workflows.
  • Accountable for evaluation, review and approval of risk assessment and risk management strategies and processes to establish a foundation for appropriately managing systems and data risks.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred; bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field.
  • Eight (8) years of progressive IAM experience, with 3+ years running a PAM program.
  • Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise PAM platforms such as Cyber Ark and Hashicorp Vault.
  • Proven delivery of automated secrets management, agentic AI controls, EP access requests and certifications, just-in-time access, and role engineering at scale.
  • Proven people management skills to include human relations and interpersonal skills necessary to manage multiple teams.
  • Proven ability to build effective teams committed to organizational goals.
  • Proven analytical abilities especially in decision making and problem solving.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and the ability to handle ambiguity.
  • Proven ability to cultivate relationships and counsel key business partners within all levels of the organization.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies/Dev Sec Ops  environment desired.
  • Relevant security certifications (CISM, CISSP, CCSP, etcetera) are desired.
Skills you have
  • Identity and Access Management Standard-Utilizes IAM…
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