Vision

The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0, builds the best Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution on the planet. Hands down. Created for developers so they can focus on their innovative application ideas, for their own domains. Optimized for end users to minimize friction. And designed with security to keep applications, users, and organizations safe. Okta CIC customers come in all sizes and shapes with many counting among the most recognized brands around the world. By using Okta CIC, 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 CIC is the place where your dreams can be turned into reality.

Role

Okta is seeking a Director to lead a team of technical product managers with full ownership of Auth0 platform (the technology powering Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud). The platform team is responsible for both the technology that underpins Auth0’s identity and access management services across thousands of global customers; and the internal developer tools that are leveraged by the engineering teams.

Reporting to Senior Vice President of Product, you will manage a team of technical product managers in close collaboration with the platform engineering team, program management, design, pricing, finance, go-to-market and legal teams. This role is cross-functional in essence as the platform teams support the product engineering teams in building innovative and differentiated capabilities to support the high growth of Okta’s business with an eye on improving efficiency.

Responsibilities

You will leverage data and technical/market experience to make lots of decisions every day to help unblock teams and will not hesitate to make bold recommendations to senior company leadership.

You will support the platform product management team in the following areas:

• Requirements management: definition, prioritization, release strategy

• Leveraging data for estimating, measuring progress and course correcting (Adoption, SLA, etc.)

• Defining, publishing and communicating Platform Product Vision and Roadmap

• Roadmap sourcing strategy: Build x Buy x Partner

• Monitoring Business impact: ROI, Pricing, Margins

• Partnering with go-to-market on Product Launches

• Continuously monitor team structure and investment levels providing recommendations for optimizations

• Partner in a leading role with Program Management and Engineering leadership in quarterly and yearly planning

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of technology leadership (directly managing people) focused on B2B technologies, preferable in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS; at least 8 years of product management experience.

• Experience with Agile software development balanced with enterprise software customer needs

• Experience building and maintaining a long-term roadmap on an environment of constant change

• Experience shipping highly-available and scalable solutions in the cloud-native CNCF/Kubernetes ecosystem

• Experience building interfaces and tools for developers and engineering teams

• Solid business foundation having built business cases and defined pricing models that optimize for unit economics

• Experience partnering with go-to-market teams in launching software products

• Experience meeting enterprise customers and directly addressing product direction and specific roadmap inquiries

• Strong ability to influence and work cross-functionally

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

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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