Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management to join our Trust & Security team. This senior role owns Confluent's internal access management program and leads its evolution toward machine and workload identity — service-to-service (S2S) authentication, non-human identity (NHI), and access controls for AI agents — as the next frontier of least-privilege security for the Confluent Cloud platform. You will be the horizontal owner of how Confluent governs access: the Access Management Standard, access metrics, and the executive reporting cadence. As access operations are distributed across partner functions, you will hold the policy, risk, and measurement line so Confluent maintains one coherent access posture rather than fragmented silos. WHAT YOU WILL DO: - Strategy and Leadership: Own the strategic direction and roadmap for Confluent's internal access management program, with machine and workload identity as the durable center of gravity. Drive the program's maturity model from control-building toward sustained governance and least-privilege outcomes. - Machine & Workload Identity: Lead the program to enforce service-to-service (S2S) authentication across Trust & Security-owned surfaces, taking ownership of the enforcement hand-off from the identity engineering team. Formalize non-human iden