Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Responsibilities
- Roadmap Influence & Strategy: Develop and refine the strategic roadmap for the Identity Security portfolio. Act as a key stakeholder who directly shapes and prioritizes the core Okta and Auth0 Product roadmaps based on internal deployment findings.
- Champagne Lifecycle Management (Alpha to EA): Ensure that as Alpha features are released, Okta’s internal IAM team rigorously tests them and provides real-time feedback through the SDLC process. Own the internal rollout of these features through Early Availability (EA), driving adoption so Okta successfully "drinks its own champagne."
- Anti-Session Hijacking Architecture: Design the internal rollout blueprint and external product strategy for how Okta DBSSO and Chrome DBSC complement one another, creating a layered defense that protects corporate endpoints from token and cookie exfiltration.
- Agentic Governance: Define the operational and technical guardrails for deploying AI Agents internally and externally-ensuring secure integration via identity gateways, downscoped runtime permissions, and an unbreakable audit trail.
- Execution & Technical Delivery: Act as the primary liaison between business units, development, and engineering teams. Lead planning activities, author comprehensive PRDs/user stories, and prioritize features within Scrum/Kanban frameworks.
- Metrics & Insights: Define and monitor KPI-based reporting to provide the VP of IAM and executive leadership with clear visibility into portfolio scope, security coverage, and testing velocity across human and non-human identities.
Requirements
- Professional Maturity & Experience: Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level within Product Management, Technical Program Management, or Enterprise Architecture. Experience in IAM technologies, developer platforms (like Auth0), enterprise security, or machine-to-machine infrastructure is highly valued, but your proven ability to lead through influence is paramount.
- AI & Developer Tech Literacy: A strong conceptual and technical grasp of how AI agents, LLM applications, security gateways, and developer APIs handle authentication, authorization, and modern communication patterns (like MCP and OAuth 2.0).
- Session Security & Threat Literacy: A strong technical understanding of modern identity threat vectors (AiTM phishing, info-stealer malware, session hijacking) and how cryptographic hardware-binding (TPM, Secure Enclave) protects session state.
- Strategic Influence: A track record of successfully influencing product roadmaps and engineering priorities across highly matrixed, global organizations without direct reporting authority.
- Navigating Ambiguity: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to maintain composure and produce concrete action plans from incomplete, conflicting, or highly ambiguous inputs.
- Executive Presence: Elite presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, with the confidence to brief executive leadership and translate deep technical architecture into compelling business value.
We Offer
- Competitive Salary: The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $217,000-$298,000 USD. For candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington, the range is between: $194,000-$266,000 USD.
- Equity, Bonus, and Benefits: In addition to salary, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
- The Okta Experience: Supporting Your Well-Being, Driving Social Impact, Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community.
About the Company
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.