Identity Solutions Manager

Who We Are:

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and P , the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans.

TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry‑leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Title:

Identity Solutions Manager

Location:

New York, NY (Hybrid) or Stamford

Reports To:

Director, Cloud & Platform Engineering

The Identity Solutions Manager is TKO's business-facing leader for Identity and Access Management. This is the person who makes modern identity real and relevant across UFC, WWE, IMG, P , OLE, and the broader portfolio. They translate complex IAM concepts into outcomes that non-technical stakeholders can appreciate, support, and act on, and they build the internal credibility that turns business teams from passive recipients of identity changes into active advocates for them.

As the primary advocate for modern identity at TKO, they will serve as the connective tissue across three layers simultaneously:
Capturing, prioritizing, and maintaining business requirements in a structured engineering backlog. Partnering with Identity Architects to shape and communicate our IAM/Okta roadmap. Ensuring operational readiness with Helpdesk frontline support so they are always informed and ready for what comes next. The Identity Solutions Manager will be the spearhead of TKO’s IAM strategy, coordinating multiple Identity Automation and Lifecycle Programs, balancing competing demands, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring engineering investment is focused on TKO’s highest-value strategic initiatives.

Serve as the primary business-facing liaison for Identity Engineering, conducting discovery sessions to capture requirements and translate them into actionable identity system specifications. Act as an internal evangelist for TKO's Okta-based IAM capabilities, educating business teams across the portfolio on what's possible and driving adoption of SSO, automated provisioning, and access governance features. Own business-facing roadmap communication, ensuring stakeholders understand what's coming, why it matters, and how it benefits them.

Be the voice of the business inside Identity Engineering, advocating for requirements, influencing prioritization, and ensuring engineering effort stays aligned to business value. Intake, Backlog & Program Execution.

Manage governance intake requests, maintain and prioritize the program backlog, and ensure Identity Engineering is consistently focused on the highest-value initiatives. Coordinate and drive execution of the SOX Application Lifecycle Governance Program, including application onboarding, ownership validation, access request processes, and user access reviews. Partner with Identity Engineering, Security, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to deliver governance initiatives on time and in scope.

Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and blockers; develop mitigation plans and elevate issues before they impact delivery.

Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, and program reviews, tailoring communication effectively for technical and non-technical audiences. Serve as the bridge between Identity Architects and Helpdesk teams, translating…