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About the Role
Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This role requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes, operating with speed, urgency, and excellence. It's an opportunity to do career-defining work on the AI takeoff team, creating a rapid feedback loop from customers to product and engineering.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with top customers and AI Forward Deployed Engineering to rapidly translate customer needs into differentiated AI capabilities and deliver them to production.
- Partner closely with broader Okta Engineering, Product, and Design to ensure capabilities are production-ready and meet Okta standards for security, reliability, scalability, and quality.
- Build, grow, and mentor a small, highly focused team of AI Takeoff engineers operating with high autonomy and urgency.
- Serve as a senior technical SME in customer engagements, technical evaluations, and complex sales processes.
- Lead complex customer escalations with a bias toward rapidly identifying root causes and delivering durable solutions.
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Takeoff engineering roadmap, balancing customer urgency with long-term scalability and production quality.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and shipping identity, security, infrastructure, or developer-focused products in a high-growth organization.
- Proven engineering leadership and team management experience, including hiring, developing, and motivating high-performing teams.
- Strong executive communication and influencing skills, with a track record of driving outcomes across organizational boundaries and bringing cross-functional teams together.
- Proven experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating customer problems into technical solutions.
- Deep identity domain expertise — you know, or can quickly get up to speed on, the latest identity protocols, standards, architectures, and patterns.
- Experience operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments where priorities evolve quickly and execution matters.
- Strong product and customer orientation, with the ability to balance customer urgency, technical quality, and long-term scalability.
- Experience with AI/agentic systems, AI security, or emerging identity patterns is a strong plus.
Skills
- Identity protocols
- Identity standards
- Identity architectures
- Identity patterns
- AI/agentic systems
- AI security
- Emerging identity patterns
Location
- San Francisco Bay area
- California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area)
- Colorado
- Illinois
- New York
- Washington
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- San Francisco Bay area: $275,000—$378,000 USD
- California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $246,000—$337,000 USD
- Canada: $224,000—$308,000 CAD
Benefits
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
- RRSP with a match (Canada)
- Healthcare spending (Canada)
- Telemedicine (Canada)
About the Company
- Okta is the industry leader in identity and AI security.
- We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate.
- Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
- Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.