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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.

Senior Manager, Identity Engineering, Okta on Okta

The Okta on Okta team owns, configures, and manages Okta’s own internal implementations of Okta to support workforce, customer, and federal use cases. We aim to showcase the Okta platform and strive to make our implementations the reference for how identity challenges can and should be solved using Okta technology. In this role you will report to the Senior Director of Okta on Okta and manage a high-performance team that is on the forefront of enriching, deploying, and supporting our organization’s own implementations of the Okta platform and complementary identity security capabilities. If you have a passion for using identity to empower and enable internal and external customers while working with new technology in a high-energy & supportive team, then this is the opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

• Guide development and administrative activities and provide design direction by leveraging your deep technical experience.
• Partner with the Okta on Okta Product function to determine prioritization and intake for project and business-as-usual
• Provide leadership and guidance to a growing team of Identity Engineers, and ensure that high-quality deliverables routinely prioritized and delivered for our internal stakeholders
• Partner with the cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions to support and harden our identity posture.
• Provide input to development of product vision, strategy to support organizational and departmental VMTs
• Support cross-functional product requests, while ensuring enablement and alignment on the engagement model
• Follow key processes to optimize getting things done, simplify complexity, and identify opportunities for synergy and integration
• Facilitate design strategy and successful execution of playbook adoption, planning, and intake processes

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in implementing and supporting identity and access management for for workforce
• 3+ years’ experience managing or leading technical teams
• Ability to define project roadmaps and plan execution against those roadmaps
• Ability to identify risks and mitigate at the scrum or team level
• Ability to identify resourcing gaps on the team, hire and develop talent, and manage performance when necessary
• Ability to manage business partner relationships and expectations, define project scope, prioritize, and communicate to stakeholders
• Okta, CIDPro, ISC2, or other security-related certifications preferred

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What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
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