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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.

The Okta Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-Service solution through identifying and resolving risks to the employees, product, and most importantly, our customers. With the ever-increasing pace of cloud application adoption, companies are struggling to find ways to accurately assess risk and act at the speed of their business.

The Customer Trust team is the voice of Okta Security both externally and internally. It's our role to influence how the Okta security brand is perceived and to shape the security culture of the company. Within Customer Trust is the Security Culture team, which, above and beyond a traditional Security Awareness and Training function, exists to empower Okta employees to understand the role they play in helping protect Okta, combat security breaches, and foster a culture of security across the organisation.

Through our continued focus and innovative methods, we aim to ensure that:

The Senior Director, Security Culture is a key member of the Customer Trust team and is directly responsible for security culture initiatives, including security policy and best practice training, awareness and communications in support of the global growth of the Okta business.

This position requires a strategic leader with strong collaboration and communications skills, detailed working knowledge of security, change management, training and security awareness practices.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Security leader for our growing Culture program
• Build a team of security culture professionals, to enable Okta Security to achieve its goals globally with regards to security culture, including capability across the Americas, EMEA and APJ
• Build relationships across the organisation, and collaborate with executive management
• Leverage existing collateral and inputs to gauge current state effectiveness, and identify gaps
• With input from key stakeholders, own the strategy and desired end state for Security Culture at Okta
• Establish, implement and monitor Security Culture initiatives to execute on this strategy, as well as measure effectiveness of this program
• Drive innovative, engaging and sustainable cultural change via inclusive activities, events, education and training, with associated content and collateral available across multiple mediums including the internal Intranet (‘the Landing’)
• Drive internal conversations that shape or shine a spotlight on security culture, and communicate externally with knowledge and authority and drive the public conversation around security culture
• To a lesser extent, but as required - 
  • Interface directly with Okta customers, prospects, audit teams and other stakeholders where there is a focus on Security Culture
  • Assist the customer assurance team with on-going customer security diligence and inputs as required for Security Culture
• Stay current on market developments to identify emerging security technologies, risks and trends to ensure that we keep pace with security technology and risk landscape evolution.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience with Security Culture and Awareness at a global, highly regulated (Banking, Govt, Healthcare) or tier one SaaS company
• Experience in SaaS industry highly regarded
• Experience working with a global team
• Amazing written and verbal communication skills and the ability to craft and execute a Security Culture strategy
• Prior experience building and leading high performing teams

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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 

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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