The opportunity
At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company.
What you'll do
Lead, grow, and develop the IAM Platform engineering team: own hiring, mentorship, performance, and career growth, and scale the team thoughtfully as we expand our enterprise investment.
Own the delivery of ClickUp's enterprise-grade access management platform:: the authorization engine and permission/role model, authentication (SSO via SAML/OIDC and social/Okta/Entra, MFA/2FA, session and token management), SCIM provisioning, sharing and access-control primitives, audit logs, OAuth and API token management, and the core data model and APIs that define how customers' work is organized across the product.
Set the roadmap and priorities in partnership with product, security, and: engineering leadership — elevating the access, identity, and admin capabilities enterprises depend on to an enterprise-grade standard and keeping them there.
Run an AI-native team: structure the work so agents can route, scope, and report on it; use AI flows to remove status meetings and manual reporting, reduce noise, and let a small team operate at scale. Continuously raise the bar on how the team leverages AI end-to-end.
Partner with enterprise customers, GTM, and security teams on access-control: and identity requirements, and represent ClickUp credibly in enterprise security and architecture reviews.
Own operational excellence for high-blast-radius services: a healthy on-call rotation, safe migrations, reliability, and a clear security boundary where the server remains the source of truth.
What they're looking for
- Uphold a high engineering bar: design and code review, testing, performance, and security-by-design — for the most security-critical area of the product.
- Collaborate across backend, frontend, platform, product, design, and infosec: to ship coherent access experiences on top of the platform.
- + years of professional software engineering experience building production: SaaS, with 3+ years managing engineering teams (including senior engineers).
- Identity and access management experience is required: hands-on background delivering authentication and authorization systems: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA/2FA, enterprise SSO, SCIM, and RBAC/permission and role models, ideally in a multi-tenant environment.
