Product Architect, AI (Auth0)
Bellevue · Chicago · New York · Washington, DC · USD 226,000-311,000 / year · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Location
- Bellevue · Chicago · New York · Washington, DC
- Salary
- USD 226,000-311,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- We are looking for a Product Architect, AI to help define how Auth0 and Okta lead the market in agentic identity, secure AI application development, and standards-based access for agents.
- This is a senior, highly strategic, and deeply hands-on role where you will work across Product, Engineering, Security, Developer Relations, Design, Go-to-Market, and our customer community to shape the technical and product direction for AI-native identity capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve Auth0’s strategy for building, operating, and securing AI agents and agentic applications.
- Shape the product and technical strategy for agentic identity, including how agents authenticate, receive delegated authority, access resources, establish trust, and maintain auditable boundaries.
- Define approaches for securely exposing protected resources (including APIs, tools, data services, and MCP servers) to authorized agents.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to turn strategic opportunities into clear product bets, architectural principles, product requirements, and durable platform capabilities.
- Help design and, where valuable, implement core identity capabilities that enable secure agent-to-resource and agent-to-agent interactions.
- Develop an informed perspective on emerging technologies and standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent protocols, agentic commerce, AAuth, authorization frameworks, workload identity, and related specifications.
- Identify important industry shifts early, assess their implications for customers and the identity ecosystem, and communicate a clear point of view internally and externally.
- Work directly with strategic customers to understand their AI and identity architectures, uncover unmet needs, validate product direction, and help them build securely.
- Collaborate with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Trust teams to ensure that AI-related identity capabilities are secure, responsible, compliant, and usable in real-world enterprise environments.
- Build prototypes, reference implementations, and technical demonstrations using technologies such as Node.js, React, Python, and Go.
Requirements
- Significant experience in product architecture, technical product management, software architecture, platform engineering, developer platforms, or a similarly customer- and technology-facing leadership role.
- Experience building and shipping AI-powered applications, agentic systems, developer tools, or platforms used by developers to build them.
- Deep expertise in modern identity and authorization standards, especially OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, workload identity, token exchange, delegated authorization, API authorization, and related identity protocols.
- A strong understanding of how to securely design access to APIs, tools, data, and services in distributed systems.
- Practical familiarity with the emerging agent ecosystem, including MCP, agent-to-agent interactions, tool invocation, AI application architectures, and the evolving questions around agent identity, authorization, delegation, consent, intent, and auditability.
- Demonstrated ability to develop a strategy in ambiguous, quickly evolving markets and turn it into concrete product and technical decisions.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers, developers, and partners to solve complex technical problems and influence product direction.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain deeply technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- A strong external presence in relevant technical communities through speaking, standards work, open-source contributions, technical writing, or other visible contributions.
- Strong software development skills and comfort writing code in one or more of Node.js/TypeScript, React, Python, or Go.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience contributing to or participating in identity, security, AI, or agent-related standards organizations and open-source projects.
- Experience designing developer-facing authentication, authorization, API security, or identity platform products.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS, B2B platforms, consumer-facing applications, or both.
- Experience with authorization policy systems, fine-grained authorization, consent, entitlements, and delegated access models.
- Experience building or operating MCP servers, AI agent platforms, AI-enabled workflows, or agent-to-agent systems.
- Experience with cloud security, workload identity, zero trust, API gateways, service-to-service authorization, or secure software supply chains.
- A track record of helping organizations navigate major platform shifts, such as cloud, mobile, API-first development, or AI.
- A pragmatic approach to innovation: excitement about emerging technology paired with a clear understanding of security, customer value, operational realities, and adoption barriers.
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave including PTO and parental leave
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
Skills
- Node.js
- React
- Python
- Go
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect
- TypeScript
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- API Authorization
- Workload Identity
