Identity Solutions Manager

Who We Are:



TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

 Title: Identity Solutions Manager

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid) or Stamford

Reports To: Director, Cloud & Platform Engineering

Position Summary

The Identity Solutions Manager is TKO's business-facing leader for Identity and Access Management. This is the person who makes modern identity real and relevant across UFC, WWE, IMG, PBR, OLE, and the broader portfolio. They translate complex IAM concepts into outcomes that non-technical stakeholders can appreciate, support, and act on, and they build the internal credibility that turns business teams from passive recipients of identity changes into active advocates for them.

As the primary advocate for modern identity at TKO, they will serve as the connective tissue across three layers simultaneously:

Capturing, prioritizing, and maintaining business requirements in a structured engineering backlog

Partnering with Identity Architects to shape and communicate our IAM/Okta roadmap

Ensuring operational readiness with Helpdesk frontline support so they are always informed and ready for what comes next.

The Identity Solutions Manager will be the spearhead of TKO’s IAM strategy, coordinating multiple Identity Automation and Lifecycle Programs, balancing competing demands, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring engineering investment is focused on TKO’s highest-value strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Business Liaison & Evangelism

Serve as the primary business-facing liaison for Identity Engineering, conducting discovery sessions to capture requirements and translate them into actionable identity system specifications

Act as an internal evangelist for TKO's Okta-based IAM capabilities, educating business teams across the portfolio on what's possible and driving adoption of SSO, automated provisioning, and access governance features

Own business-facing roadmap communication, ensuring stakeholders understand what's coming, why it matters, and how it benefits them

Be the voice of the business inside Identity Engineering, advocating for requirements, influencing prioritization, and ensuring engineering effort stays aligned to business value

Intake, Backlog & Program Execution

Manage governance intake requests, maintain and prioritize the program backlog, and ensure Identity Engineering is consistently focused on the highest-value initiatives

Coordinate and drive execution of the SOX Application Lifecycle Governance Program, including application onboarding, ownership validation, access request processes, and user access reviews

Partner with Identity Engineering, Security, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to deliver governance initiatives on time and in scope

Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and blockers; develop mitigation plans and escalate issues before they impact delivery

Stakeholder Management & Communication

Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, and program reviews, tailoring communication effectively for technical and non-technical audiences

Serve as the bridge between Identity Architects and Helpdesk teams, translating roadmap milestones into operational context so frontline teams are always prepared for what's coming

Drive accountability across stakeholders, ensuring commitments and action items are completed within agreed timelines

Develop and deliver regular status reporting, governance metrics, dashboards, and executive updates

Skills & Abilities

Stakeholder Engagement

Business Analysis: Runs requirements workshops, documents current and future state, and translates ambiguous business needs into actionable identity system specifications

Product Evangelism: Excites and educates non-technical stakeholders about Okta-based IAM capabilities, turning skeptics into advocates and driving meaningful adoption across the business

Stakeholder Management: Builds strong relationships across technical and business teams; influences decisions, drives alignment, and navigates competing priorities with confidence

Communication: Tailors written and verbal messaging effectively for executive leadership, business stakeholders, auditors, and engineering teams

Program Delivery

Program Execution: Develops actionable plans, manages competing priorities, and drives deliverables forward with minimal oversight in fast-paced, high-visibility environments

Intake & Backlog Management: Manages governance intake requests, maintains a prioritized program backlog, and ensures engineering focus stays aligned to business and compliance objectives

Risk Management: Proactively identifies risks, dependencies, and blockers then develops mitigation strategies and escalates before issues impact delivery

Documentation: Produces clear, professional status reports, governance records, meeting summaries, and executive communications

Technical Knowledge

IAM & Governance: Working understanding of SSO, SCIM provisioning, JIT provisioning, REST APIs, access request processes, user access reviews, and automated identity lifecycle management

Okta Fluency: Hands-on expertise with Okta Identity Cloud, Okta Workflows, Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is required to build enough to credibly evangelize capabilities and partner effectively with engineering

Technical Aptitude: Able to engage meaningfully on identity architecture, application onboarding requirements, governance controls, and integration dependencies without needing to be an engineer

Ways of Working

Extreme Ownership Mindset: Takes full accountability for successes and failures, proactively solves problems, removes roadblocks, and follows through with commitments until fully delivered.

Comfort with Ambiguity: Brings structure and clarity to evolving requirements and complex initiatives without waiting for perfect information

Ownership & Accountability: Takes personal responsibility for outcomes and holds stakeholders to commitments without being heavy-handed

Resilience: Maintains composure and focus across multiple concurrent initiatives in a dynamic, high-growth environment

Qualifications (required)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience

5+ years of hands-on experience with Okta Identity Cloud, Okta Workflows, and Okta Identity Governance

7+ years of experience in a business-facing technology role, such as business analyst, technical program manager, or IAM practitioner with stakeholder-facing responsibilities

Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into technical specifications in an enterprise environment

Working knowledge of identity and access management concepts, including SSO, provisioning, user access reviews, and access governance

Strong organization skillsets with managing program backlog, prioritize competing demands, and drive cross-functional delivery in a complex organization

Experience supporting IAM programs with alignment to compliance frameworks such as SOX, PCI DSS, or NIST

KPIs for Identity Solutions Manager

Identity Program Delivery

Deliver on 95% of committed Identity Engineering initiatives on time, in budget, and within agreed scope

Application Lifecycle Governance Adoption

Successfully onboard and operat