Own identity, roles, permissions, and authorization end to end: granular enough for our most demanding customers, rigorous enough for our bank charter, and simple enough that most people never think about it
Run it as a platform. Set how other product teams engage with yours, and make the layer they build on something that speeds them up rather than something they wait on
Make it easier for a founder to bring their whole team onto Mercury: find out why they hesitate, and make invitation obvious, easy, and high-trust
Shape where this space goes as our product ambition grows and the kinds of users we support change, agents among them
+ years of relevant product management experience, preferably on horizontal product or platform teams accountable for identity, roles, and authorization
Product teams should want you in the room early. On a platform team, being consulted before decisions are made is the difference between leverage and cleanup
