Vice President of Identity & Access Management, Cross River
$160-200k
Office located in Fort Lee, NJ
API-based financial solutions for businesses
Open for applications
API-based financial solutions for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-200k
Office located in Fort Lee, NJ
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable clients to deliver responsible financial solutions that empower consumers anytime, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in IAM, Information Security, or IT Risk roles, with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity
- Hands-on experience with IAM platforms (e.g., SailPoint, Saviynt, Azure AD, CyberArk, Okta), ideally in a financial services or regulated environment
- Deep knowledge of identity lifecycle automation, JML workflows, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, MFA, and PAM principles
- Proven success aligning IAM strategy with risk, audit, and compliance functions
- Familiarity with scripting or automation (PowerShell, Python) and modern identity protocols (SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, SCIM)
- Strong communication, influencing, and documentation skills; able to evangelize IAM to both technical and business audiences
- Experience implementing or integrating with HRIS systems like Workday and ITSM systems like ServiceNow is a plus
- Certifications preferred: CISSP, CISM, or vendor-specific IAM certs
What the job involves
- Cross River Bank is seeking a VP of Identity & Access Management (IAM) to build and lead a modern, risk-aligned, and automation-forward IAM program
- Reporting to the VP of IT Security Engineering, this strategic and technical leader will drive the design, governance, and execution of IAM capabilities across our cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments
- This role will be instrumental in maturing our identity lifecycle management, enforcing least privilege, and enhancing secure access governance—while ensuring compliance with FFIEC, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other regulatory standards
- Strategy & Leadership:
- Define and own the bank’s IAM vision, roadmap, and architecture, aligned with security, compliance, and business goals
- Build, lead, and mentor a small but high-performing IAM team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability
- Champion secure and scalable IAM practices across business units, product teams, and infrastructure domains
- Partner with Engineering and Compliance to enhance identity governance maturity
- Lifecycle Management & Automation:
- Oversee the design and automation of Joiner-Mover-Leaver processes
- Drive implementation of access request workflows and access reviews through tools like ServiceNow, with tight policy enforcement and auditability
- Reduce identity sprawl by enforcing role-based and attribute-based access controls (RBAC/ABAC)
- Support federated SSO and MFA rollout across all SaaS applications to eliminate shadow IT
- Privileged Access & Governance:
- Lead the rationalization and control of privileged access across AWS, Azure (PIM), and legacy AD environments
- Partner with Security Engineering and Audit to execute regular access reviews and design SoD frameworks
- Define access certification cycles with actionable outputs for business owners
- Cloud & SaaS Identity:
- Guide cloud identity strategies for Azure, AWS, and SaaS ecosystems to ensure secure and scalable access models
- Collaborate with Engineering to securely onboard new SaaS vendors under centralized identity management and SSO
- Audit & Compliance:
- Maintain IAM controls to meet FFIEC, SOC 2, and PCI DSS standards, and respond effectively to FDIC audits
- Establish clear KPIs and metrics for IAM hygiene, access review coverage, and lifecycle automation
Our take
Cross River is a fintech and banking company that builds scalable embedded payments, cards, lending, and crypto solutions for businesses and individuals. Now a unicorn company with a valuation exceeding $1B, Cross River was founded in 2008 as a way to combine the innovations of financial technology with the existing world of banking.
Cross River has partnered with rising fintech businesses such as Ibanera, helping the Florida-based company build an all-in-one cross-border payments service. The company’s bigger picture approach has allowed it to develop several arms in the lending, compliance, and capital market sectors, amongst others, leading to a corporate flexibility that is crucial in the rapidly-evolving market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$620m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $848m
Company benefits
- Retirement planning
- Employee development fund
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Volunteer opportunities
- Charitable donation matching
- Monthly happy hours
- Free haircuts in our salon located at HQ
- Complimentary dry cleaning at HQ
- Valet parking at HQ
- Shuttle service to/from NYC
- Gym located at HQ
- River Cafe at HQ
Company HQ
Fort Lee, NJ
Leadership
Gilles Gade
(Founder, CEO & Chairman)Previously CFO at First Meridian Mortgage, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Chela Technology Partners, Associate Director at Barclays Capital and Investment Banking Associate at Bear Stearns & Company.
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