Senior Product Manager PKI Specialist

We are seeking a technically strong PKI Specialist within the Product Management team to lead CA ecosystem engagement and drive public root strategy for Global Sign. This role will participate in CA/B Forum and related industry forums, contribute to standards evolution, own root management strategy for the CA and support decision making of critical compliance changes with our compliance team based on market and customer voice for Global Sign.

This role is intended to be a strong external and internal PKI authority for the PM organization.

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Represent the company in CA/B Forum and other relevant standards or industry bodies, actively participating in discussions and helping shape positions on evolving standards.
• Track ballots, working group discussions, and industry developments, and clearly communicate product, platform, compliance, and business impact to internal stakeholders and provide clear recommendations on business side
• Contribute to standards evolution by bringing ecosystem insight and technical reasoning into discussions with industry bodies and stakeholders.
• Support root strategy and root lifecycle planning keeping trust drivers for the customers in mind.
• Serve as the PM team’s PKI subject matter expert on how the certificate ecosystem works end to end, including public trust models, certificate profiles, issuance and revocation controls and ecosystem dependencies.
• Advise product leadership on strategic implications of emerging PKI shifts, enabling proactive roadmap decisions rather than reactive compliance-only changes.
• Convert policy and standards requirements into BRDs, epics, acceptance criteria, and prioritized roadmap items in partnership with engineering and compliance teams

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in PKI
  , cybersecurity, or certificate authority ecosystems, with hands‑on understanding of public trust, certificate lifecycle, and CA operations.
• Strong understanding of Web PKI standards and ecosystem mechanisms, including certificate profiles, CT logging, root hierarchies, revocation, and trust distribution models.
• Prior direct participation in CA/B Forum
  , root program engagement, or standards bodies relevant to PKI and digital trust
• Experience with SSL/TLS certificate ecosystems, or trust infrastructure platforms.

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Light work that includes moving objects up to 15 pounds.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to sustain viewing a computer screen for extended periods of time.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Communicating with others in‑person, over the phone, and virtually exchanging information.

• The ability to concentrate on tasks for extended periods, avoiding distractions and maintaining productivity.
• Ability to organize and prioritize your own work schedule.
• Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines.
• Ability to make decisions which have moderate impact on immediate work unit.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Please note that the responsibilities mentioned above are not exhaustive and may encompass additional tasks assigned to this position.

Our employees are expected to fully embrace our ‘One Global Sign Way’ and demonstrate the following behaviours daily in their job roles.

Be responsible and accountable for own job responsibilities, performance, conduct, training, development, career progression and effective communication.

Challenge how things are done, suggest more effective and efficient ways of working, actively seek to improve customer service and product offering to both external and internal customers.

Behave ethically and morally by complying with Company rules, policies, processes, procedures, and governmental/governing body laws and…