Senior Product Manager - Desktop Client

About Delinea:

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com http://Delinea.com, LinkedIn https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fdelinea%2F&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186877399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b1LCPIWSjxvblUYLlabUnRZ43S8rcspTQcBZsz0UbmU%3D&reserved=0, X https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fdelineainc&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186902236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=goZhva9hWR8F0P5pO6SQUEwigdbvbZiWqmw5%2BHhhf1A%3D&reserved=0, and YouTube https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40Delinea&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186928751%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uXgjuXTFu4kHWBJZ1XdNWN88Mrk5iT9Y24Ejw8fFBi8%3D&reserved=0.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and execution for Delinea's Desktop Client—the intelligent, cross-platform desktop application that gives users and workloads secure, contextual, and frictionless access to the resources they need to do their jobs. Desktop Client is the single client experience that unifies connection brokering, credential delivery, and protocol access across the Delinea Platform, giving customers one tool to access every resource just-in-time.

Desktop Client is a native application that connects users to databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, cloud providers, and other endpoints without the friction of scattered credentials, port exhaustion, certificate warnings, or constant tool-switching. The Desktop Client also interacts closely with platform SDKs and CLIs to provide developers with the secure access they need and allow developers the ability to use their preferred native tooling.

As the PM for the Desktop Client and its associated SDK and CLI capabilities, you will set the direction for a flagship client used by IT administrators, power users, developers and, non-human identities across macOS, Windows and, Linux. You will operate as the product leader for the area by translating a complex technical architecture into a roadmap that delivers visible customer value, aligning engineering, design, security, and go-to-market partners. This is a high-visibility initiative central to Delinea's product strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

PRODUCT VISION & STRATEGY

• Own the long-term vision, strategy, and multi-release roadmap for Desktop Client and its associated SDK and CLI capabilities, balancing foundational investment with incremental delivery that customers can feel.
• Define and articulate the strategy for unifying connection brokering, credential delivery, and protocol access into a single client experience, and drive the long-term consolidation of legacy desktop and connection-management use cases into it.
• Build and maintain the business case, success metrics, and outcome targets for the product, and communicate them clearly to executives, customers, and the broader organization.

EXECUTION & DELIVERY

• Own end-to-end delivery across discovery, definition, and launch. Key expectations for this responsibility include writing crisp requirements, prioritizing ruthlessly, and making the trade-off calls that keep a technically complex product shipping on cadence through private preview, GA, and beyond.
• Partner closely with engineering on architecture-shaping decisions for the cross-platform client and related SDK and CLI capabilities—translating deep technical constraints into clear product direction.
• Define the experience for connecting across SSH, RDP, VNC, HTTPS, Kubernetes, databases, and cloud providers, including credential-set selection, live connection state, and a visual inventory of targets across protocols and environments.
• Establish the metrics, telemetry, and feedback loops needed to measure adoption, reliability, and friction, and iterate based on what they tell you.

CUSTOMER & MARKET FOCUS

• Be the voice of the IT administrator, power user, and developer by deeply understanding the "tool scatter," credential-handling, and just-in-time access pain that this product exists to eliminate.
• Engage directly with customers, prospects, analysts, and field teams to validate direction, shape positioning, and ensure Delinea shows up to competitive evaluations with a single, credible access experience rather than fragmented tools.
• Track the competitive landscape, including consolidated enterprise access and secure-browser offerings, and ensure the roadmap keeps Delinea ahead.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP

• Act as the product point of accountability for Desktop Client across the organization, providing clarity on scope, sequencing, and what belongs to the client versus adjacent platform services.
• Partner closely with engineering and architecture, UX and design, security and GRC, platform and infrastructure teams, and go-to-market functions to deliver a cohesive product.
• Mentor and raise the bar for other product managers, modeling strong product judgment, written communication, and technical fluency.
• Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure the client meets enterprise security expectations—including FedRAMP requirements—without adding friction for end users.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, including significant time owning technical, infrastructure, security, or identity products.
• Demonstrated experience as a PM setting vision and strategy for a complex product and driving it through delivery at scale.
• Experience owning desktop, CLI, or cross-platform applications (macOS/Windows/Linux), or comparable systems where the client experience is central to the product.
• Strong technical fluency across networking and secure access concepts including protocols such as SSH, RDP, VNC, and HTTPS; TLS and certificates; databases, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proven ability to translate deep architectural constraints into a clear, customer-centric roadmap, and to make and defend hard prioritization trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of influencing executives, engineers, and customers alike.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• CS/EE degree or security certification (CISSP/CCSP).
• Experience in privileged access management (PAM), identity security, remote/secure access, and/or developer tooling (CI/CD, Git) is strongly preferred.
• Experience shipping software for FedRAMP compliance and adjacent regimes (FIPS 140-2/3 validated cryptography, SOC 2, etc.).
• Experience with product consolidation, legacy migration, and deprecation.
• Experience with the cross-platform native client lifecycle: code signing, Apple notarization, Windows installer/MSI packaging, Linux packaging, and managed/silent deployment via MDM (Jamf, Intune, SCCM), plus auto-update channels.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust / ZTNA architecture and how a client fits into a brokered-access model with proxies.
• Familiarity with access players (Teleport, Okta Privilege Access, CyberArk, BeyondTrust).

Travel Expectation: up to 25%

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.
• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through
• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment
• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.