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.

  About the Teams

You will have  the opportunity to lead two teams.  The Account Services team gives our Managed Service Provider (MSP) clients to create and configure their own instances.  The Admin Core Experience team owns the foundational pieces of an Okta admin’s journey.

Managing these two teams, you will own the following aspects:

• Building products to allow admins to self-serve their needs, such as adding credit card functionality to purchase SKUs.
• Creating widgets that surface actionable data to admins, such as potential malicious IP addresses.
• Build out platform to allow customers to create their own instances globally, and provision SKUs based on their licensing.
• Admin UI framework, including building components that support our design system, Odyssey.

About the Position

We are seeking an Engineering Manager with a strong technical background and excellent communication skills to join us and partner with senior leadership in the MPE group.

Your work will be front and center to thousands of Okta customer administrators that drive Okta functionality for millions of end users.

Our team strives to delight our admins as if they were consumers.  Our team is at the intersection of our admins, our feature teams and sales automation.

The ideal candidate will share our passion and great pride in elegant solutions and will join an engineering group that strongly believes in designing for scale, rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation enterprise software.

What you will be doing:

• Engage in technical design and discussions and also help drive technical architecture
• Raise the bar for our teams by driving improvements in areas such as monitoring, uptime, code reviews.
• Collaborate and develop relationships with other teams to achieve our goals, in particular our TechOps (SRE) group.
• Ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers
• Help mitigate risk (technical, product, personnel)
• Identity roadblocks to success for your team and clear them
• Participate in relevant Engineering workgroups and on-call rotations
• Mentor and grow a distributed team.
• Foster, enable and promote innovation
• Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization

What you will bring to the role: 

• A track record of leading or managing high performing teams
• Demonstrated ability to own architectural decisions and provide technical direction to the team as a manager.
• Prior experience working with a system at scale.
• The ability to run effective 1-on-1s, group discussions, planning sessions, and retrospectives
• Demonstrated prior experience as a high performing IC.

  Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

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

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

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 participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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