Product Manager, Identity & Access Management
Posted Sep 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a platform product you managed where your users were other engineering teams.
What they are checking: Whether they know how to serve internal customers and say no to one-off requests.
Tell me about a time you made a product decision with security and usability pulling in opposite directions.
What they are checking: Whether they can make and defend a trade-off rather than pushing the problem to someone else.
What would you do
You're building a fine-grained permissions model that every Stripe product will depend on. How do you get dozens of teams to adopt it?
What they are checking: Whether they can drive platform adoption through good design, migration plans and influence.
A large customer asks for a custom role that would complicate the permissions model for everyone. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they protect the platform's long-term simplicity while still solving the customer's need.
How would you work with outside AI labs on standards like MCP while still shipping for Stripe's users?
What they are checking: Whether they can contribute to evolving industry protocols without stalling their own roadmap.
About the work
How would you model an AI agent's permissions when it sometimes acts for a person and sometimes acts on its own?
What they are checking: Whether they can reason about identity principals and delegation in a problem that is still unsolved.
A business wants to let an agent run a whole workflow instead of approving each step. How would you design authorization for that?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance convenience with control and auditability for automated actors.
How would you decide what access controls to show in the Dashboard versus expose through the API, CLI or MCP?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that different surfaces have different users and risks.
How would you measure whether an identity product is making businesses more secure?
What they are checking: Whether they can pick outcome metrics in a space where success is often invisible.
What could go wrong if an API key or agent credential is too broadly scoped, and how would you design against it?
What they are checking: Whether they think concretely about least privilege and the damage a leaked credential can do.
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