Product Owner IAM

Technology · Stockholm (Münchenbryggeriet)

Lead and grow a brilliant Java engineering team delivering products across authentication, identity and signing.

Be part of Clavister's journey to secure the digital world. We are looking for a Product Owner with the leadership, product thinking and technical judgement to lead a cross-functional Java team responsible for authentication, identity management and digital signing products.

Working closely with the Product Manager, you will contribute to the vision and roadmap for our IAM portfolio, own the backlog and guide delivery across Product, Engineering, Architecture and Security.

About Clavister Clavister is a European cybersecurity company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Örnsköldsvik. We develop solutions across network security, identity and access management, cloud security, machine learning and AI for customers in the public sector, critical infrastructure, defence and telecommunications. With our partners and distributors, our hardware and software are deployed in more than 100 countries.

The role This role combines product ownership, people leadership and engineering delivery. Creating focus, developing people and building an effective team are more important than being an IAM specialist.

You should be comfortable in the IAM domain and able to discuss Java or a comparable enterprise backend ecosystem, architecture, integrations, quality and engineering trade-offs. The portfolio includes established on-premises products with multiple supported versions and SaaS offerings, requiring sound judgement when balancing development and technical debt.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop a cross-functional Java team, with responsibility for people leadership, competence development, team effectiveness and delivery practices, including feedback and professional development.

• Contribute customer, delivery and team perspectives to the Product Manager's vision and roadmap.

• Own and prioritise the backlog based on product direction, customer needs, security requirements and capacity.

• Translate roadmap objectives into clear outcomes, requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate with engineers, architects and IAM specialists on system design, APIs, integrations and architecture.

• Balance new capabilities and technical debt with cybersecurity, privacy, quality, usability, scalability and maintainability.

• Drive delivery from refinement and planning through development, automated testing and operational follow-up.

• Promote modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, observability, code review and test automation.

• Recruit, coach and mentor team members and foster trust, learning and knowledge sharing.

• Coordinate dependencies, risks and expectations across Product, Technology, Architecture, Security and other stakeholders.

What success looks like in this role

The team has clear priorities and ownership, delivers secure and maintainable products with predictable quality and flow, and grows through collaborative decision-making and a healthy engineering culture.

To thrive in this role we believe you have

• Experience leading and developing commercial software product teams, with focus on people, performance, collaboration and delivery.

• Experience with product ownership, backlog management and agile software delivery.

• A hands-on background in software engineering or architecture and enough technical understanding to engage confidently with Java developers and architects.

• Experience with Java or a comparable enterprise backend ecosystem.

• Experience collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders on product discovery, priorities, vision and roadmap.

• Comfort working in IAM and curiosity to learn authentication, identity and signing concepts.

• Knowledge of secure software development, privacy and vulnerability management.

• Strong communication, coaching, stakeholder management, problem-solving and change leadership skills.

• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Extra points for

• Experience in IAM, authentication, digital identity or electronic signing.

• Familiarity with IAM integrations, APIs, federation, identity lifecycle processes or trust services.

• Experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar agile facilitation role.

What we offer

• Meaningful work in a European cybersecurity company where IAM is a key part of zero-trust security.

• The opportunity to lead a skilled Java team delivering authentication, identity and signing products.

• A collaborative and inclusive environment across Product, Technology and Security.

• Professional development, training and leadership growth opportunities.

• Flexible working arrangements, a supportive team culture, competitive salary and benefits.

Join us If you enjoy leading people, creating product clarity and bringing stakeholders together around effective delivery, we would like to hear from you.

We review applications and interview qualified candidates continuously.

At Clavister, we live our values. As such, our vision and mission statements attempt to put to words what we aspire to; both for our customers as well as our employees.

We offer global challenges, possibilities and a team of colleagues fueled by collaboration were nothing is impossible. We know that every person is different and believe that we, both as a team and company, are strengthened by this.

We have a great mix of employees from all over the world with different backgrounds when it comes to education, work experience and diversity. By welcoming the differences and allowing everyone to develop, we succeed in building a great team spirit and customer focus.

Scandinavia and Sweden have – over the course of the last ten years – become one of the hottest and most successful tech corridors in the world. In 2015, Sweden became the second most prolific tech hub in the world on a per capita basis, producing USD6.3bn in value per million people, compared to Silicon Valley’s USD8.1bn, according to a recent report from the investment firm Atomico. It’s a salute to Sweden’s innovation and tech savvy.

Clavister, a Latin word meaning ‘Key holder’ came together by a union of chance in an unlikely Swedish place. Örnsköldsvik, located between Stockholm and the Arctic Circle, is blessed with natural beauty. But more importantly, it’s powered by an excellent university in Umeå that feeds its knowledge waters as well as an entrepreneurial spirit born of creating value and wealth from modest means.

Entrepreneur Peter Johansson, who had founded an early Internet company, EnterNet Sweden HB in 1995. As it grew, the need for more equipment – namely a secure router – became mission critical. Johansson had joined forces with another software entrepreneur, John Vestberg, who, together with talented software engineer Mikael Olsson, quickly set about solving problem. Together, they’d create a secure and fast router, something that took larger companies teams of staff and budget to achieve. In fact, they were developing an actual product that could be offered to the market, a device and code that could take on the security aspects of an always on Internet connection. It was an idea that could be sold to the world. Clavister AB was born in 2001 as EnterNet AB became the the new company, founded by Johansson and co-founded by Vestberg, ready to see how far their ambitions could go.

By 2002–2003 they launched their first physical appliance, a highly regarded firewall device that performed well in test after test. By 2008 the first virtual gateway was released, another critical technological milestone. Clavister’s reputation grew and European markets started to hunger for their products and services. Soon Asian offices were added. The development of their own, proprietary software – first cOS core and later its cOS stream solution – made the product into an award winning and industry respected leader in cybersecurity and digital threat deterrence. Investment and growth have helped put Clavister create an installed base of 20,000 customers with a 95% satisfaction rate and propelled it to be one of the few Swedish technology companies to be listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic exchange. It’s also achieved a formidable client list that includes Nokia, Canon, D-Link as well as collaborations with Intel, Redhat, VMware and others. It’s an almost 20 year history that has led to Clavister to its present market position, a leader in virtual security with an eye to the future.

Founded in 1997

Co-workers About 120

Technology · Stockholm (Münchenbryggeriet)

Lead and grow a brilliant Java engineering team delivering products across authentication, identity and signing.