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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Senior Technical Program Manager Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, Technical Portfolio Management, this role will focus on driving critical, cross-functional programs for our Customer Identity Cloud Product Unit. The Senior Technical Program Manager will partner with Product and Engineering teams to implement, maintain, and optimize complex operational processes, inclusive of clarifying needs and value, securing commitment from teams across the organization, setting timelines, and facilitating ongoing delivery and execution.

What you’ll be doing 

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to manage complex and large-scale cross-team initiatives, clarifying needs and value, securing commitment from teams across the organization, setting timelines, and lead activities from design through delivery.
• Ask questions that clarify priorities and scope and enable the team to be highly effective.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and ensure transparency to program goals, commitments, risks, progress, and deliverable quality.
• Identify and develop solutions to impediments or bottlenecks that pose a risk to the program success and communicate any trade-offs that may result from these solutions.
• Map dependencies and relationships between projects, domains, and teams, coordinating work across disparate function
• Manage and effectively communicate the applicable Program Plan
• Publish regular status and health updates to stakeholders
• Engage and energize the teams to achieve aggressive goals.
• Develop broad domain and technical knowledge.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of technical program/project management experience in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment.
• Track record of collaboration in managing and successfully delivering large scale software development programs.
• Ability to clearly communicate and establish credibility with technical and non-technical stakeholders including executive staff.
• Ability to influence and work through others where direct reporting relationships do not exist.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on execution in a data-informed environment.
• A passion for enabling teams to adopt, manage, and optimize processes and tooling 
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, especially remote.
• Passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, and robust solutions.
• Experience with agile and other program management methodologies

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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

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