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.

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.

As part of Okta CIC Identity and Access Management (IAM), the Highly Regulated Identity product team is responsible for building financial-grade CIAM capabilities for customers in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare. These capabilities provide the extra security and policy control required to protect and secure data and transactions while maintaining compliance and intuitive user experiences. This includes building features that support OpenID FAPI (Financial Grade APIs), Open Banking processes, and adding support for regulations such as PSD2, FDX, etc.

You will:

• Lead and grow a healthy, inclusive, collaborative team rooted in the opportunities they create for customers.
• Ensure each team member deepens their skills through coaching, training, and mentoring.
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for Highly Regulated Identity at Okta CIC. This involves talking to engineers, other teams, and various stakeholders within the company.
• Review your team’s work to meet high-performance standards.
• As required, work on relevant stories, tasks, and bugs from your team’s backlog.
• Tie every piece of work back to the mission of making the internet safer and the business value of making it easier for companies to solve Auth.
• Have the opportunity to gain a great understanding and context about how Okta CIC works and learn more about security protocols and how to build reliable, highly available systems.

You are a good fit if you:

• Have experience leading a backend API development team in B2B, fintech or a financial software organization. 
• Skilled at coaching teammates in all phases of their careers.
• Experience providing focus to teams to enable them to achieve their goals.
• Hands-on who can help a team evaluate trade-offs during various SDLC phases.
• Enjoy working in an iterative development environment.
• Can add value to a conversation even when you are unfamiliar with the entire context.
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.
• Like to lead by example.
• Are a great communicator and communication facilitator.

Bonus points if you:

• Experience working with the Financial and Open Banking market, implementing guidelines and regulations (US FDX, PSD2, UK Open Banking, etc.)
• Strong technical understanding of OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect Core specifications. A strong advantage would be having an understanding of OIDC FAPI specifications.
• Experience working on cloud-native technologies with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing teams developing features that scale.
• Experience with native app development, either managing or developing.

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 with 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.

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What you can look forward to as an Full-Time 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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