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 Customer Identity Cloud builds the best Customer Identity and Access Management solution on the planet. It was created for developers so they can focus on their innovative application ideas, for their own domains. It’s optimized for end users to minimize friction. We designed it with security in mind to keep applications, users, and organizations safe. 

Okta customers come in all sizes and shapes with many counting among the most recognized brands around the world. By using Okta Customer Identity, customers increase security and reduce friction so they can grow revenues faster and become more efficient. If you have strong desires to see the results of your work used by name brand customers and millions of users around the world, then Okta is the place where your dreams can be turned into reality.

You will join a distributed and diverse Design team. You will be part of a team that includes Product, Design, and Engineering counterparts and will have direct impact throughout the product development lifecycle. We are looking for a Product Designer to join our dynamic SDK and Customer Developer Tooling team. In this role, you will influence shaping our authentication and management SDK experience, along with our growing portfolio of developer tools like the Auth0 CLI and Terraform provider that enhance our platform's usability and appeal. We are looking for a designer that is a team player and works closely with engineers and product managers to solve complex problems.

• Work cross-functionally with Product Managers and Engineers, prioritizing UX improvements, partnering on strategies for SDKs and developer tools, facilitating design discussions, and providing feedback.

• Work with product and engineering to build the roadmap for the Product Experience team. This involves talking to engineers, other teams and customers.

• Build a deep understanding of your core customers.

• Work closely with designers and engineers to develop and expand our product design system. 

• Collaborate with brand and visual designers to add delightful elements to our product experience.

• Define data and analytics to measure design solutions.

• Work with the Research team and obtain the necessary support to conduct research and communicate insights to help the team understand customer problems.

• Transform challenging workflows into simple, usable and elegant experiences for developers.

• Share work early and often and seek out constructive feedback from peers, product teams, and other stakeholders.

• Iterate on solutions based on direct and indirect stakeholder feedback.

• Work together with designers on other product teams to keep work consistent, improve quality, contribute to our team processes and principles.

• Have experience building enterprise products (B2B), ideally designing products for developers.

• Have built holistic dashboard experiences: from defining consistent UX patterns to improving the overall user experience and look and feel. 

• Have worked on a robust and comprehensive design system, and know when to break out and create new extensible patterns.

• Have an advanced understanding of UI/UX/Visual design concepts and an exceptional eye for detail with a portfolio that showcases this understanding.

• Think in systems and are able to extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors.

• Can distill complex problems into precise, simple, and delightful solutions.

• Have proficiency in user and customer research: from developing a research plan, interviewing or conducting usability testing with users, analyzing feedback, and reporting research findings.

• Know how to make use of qualitative and quantitative data to back up your design decisions as well as suggest new research.

• Are comfortable working in a remote environment.

• 5+ years of relevant experience preferably working with developer tools, visual design, and UX/UI

• Bonus: Have a background in Engineering/Front-end development

• Must Come in 2 days a week

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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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