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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 by 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 assess risk accurately and act at the speed of their business.
The Senior Manager/Director, Security Education will lead and manage the Security Education Team in our efforts to support and educate our technical subject matter experts across our engineering functions.
The Security Education team creates training materials and delivers live sessions to the engineering teams. We work alongside the rest of the teams in Product Security to provide a consistent methodology for working with the engineering teams across Okta.
We are looking for an experienced Sr Manager/Director interested in ideating and creating training materials and someone who is comfortable presenting in front of technical audiences. You will take ownership of improving the materials and processes, enabling engineers to develop more secure applications.
What You’ll Do
- Define the priorities and roadmap for the Education efforts as part of the Product Security team at Okta.
- Work closely with Engineering teams to understand their current needs and identify new training opportunities.
- Develop educational materials, including videos, documentation, and other related resources.
- Present live training sessions for different engineering teams
Your Background and Skills
- 5+ years of multifaceted security leadership and management experience in a technology-centric company
- Experience presenting technical materials
- Experience with modern web application components, architecture, and design principles
- Experience with compliance standards requirements (PCI, ISO, SOC2, etc.)
- Experience creating and presenting technical materials, both live and in recordings
- Experience identifying common (OWASP Top 10/CWE Top 25) web application vulnerabilities through secure code review (Java, .Net, Go, C, C++, C#, Swift, Kotlin, Python)
- Experience conducting manual Web Application Penetration Test
- Experience evaluating modern web application components, architecture, and design principles
- Ability to explain vulnerability risks and remediation options to developers
Who you are
- You have a growth mindset; You thrive on challenges and see learnings and opportunities, not failures.
- You enjoy working with cross-functional teams and have exceptional stakeholder management skills.
- You build and lead high-energy, thriving teams to achieve quality outcomes.
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.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:
$182,000—$255,000 USD
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$202,000—$283,000 USD
What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!
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/Affirmative Action 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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