Okta - Director - Product Management

Director - Product Management

Responsibilities:

- Drive the growth of Okta Universal Directory through product strategy, vision, and execution.

- Collaborate with Global Cross Functional teams to drive the Lifecycle Management platform by evolving Okta's imports framework and owning the top strategic integrations, most adopted by Okta customers

- Develop roadmaps that make hard tradeoffs and prioritize the highest value work first.

- Work with India-based development scrum teams (PM, UX, Dev) to deliver platform capabilities that delight our customers.

- Conduct research and analysis to identify customer needs, validate hypotheses, and use this information to inform strategic vision, innovation, product decisions, prioritization, and roadmap.

- Define and communicate product requirements, including features, user experience, and technical specifications, to engineering and design teams.

- Leverage product data to continually get smarter about how to improve our existing products, and work across the business to drive adoption and success.

- Track industry trends and think strategically to develop differentiated solutions from the competition

- Be the subject matter expert for your product area and help enable your counterparts who rely on Okta's Universal Directory and Lifecycle Management platform to drive differentiated product outcomes

- Actively mentor and support the professional development of the PMs you manage by identifying their strengths, aspirations, and areas for improvement.

Required:

- 10+ years of Product Management experience in enterprise-scale B2B SaaS products or comparable relevant experience.

- Experience building or product managing high-scale platform products

- Strong communication (presentation, verbal, and written) and collaboration skills.

- You easily work with customers and colleagues across different functions and backgrounds.

- Demonstrated business results from products, features, or capabilities you have shipped.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- You can produce solid action plans from often incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs.

- Passion for Okta's huge opportunity and growth potential and general thirst for learning with an ability to go broad and deep across business and technical contexts.

Preferred:

- Familiarity with Identity and Access management protocols and products, such as Active Directory, Entra ID

- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience that allows you to rationalize and influence technical design decisions.

- Advanced degree in technical or business field, MBA helpful.

- Experience building and growing high-performing teams

- What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

- Amazing Benefits

- Making Social Impact

- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta