Staff Product Designer, Okta
UI Platform
CA$156-215k
+ Bonus. Salary dependent on location. Canada Applicants is between:$140,000—$175,000 CAD
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$156-215k
+ Bonus. Salary dependent on location. Canada Applicants is between:$140,000—$175,000 CAD
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- You are proficient in AI workflows and how to apply them to the product design process, along with opinions about where AI tools help and where they fall short
- You are passionate about helping customers solve real problems and upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and quality user experiences
- You relish effective teamwork – and you are a key contributor to building a healthy team
- You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and can effectively identify elegant, extensible solutions
- You have excellent craft and enjoy diving into the details to ensure high quality experiences for our customers, while providing design feedback and mentorship to fellow designers
- You have a learning mindset, able to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity, helping your team drive toward clarity
- You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area
- You have strong communication skills and can distill complex concepts into simple, easy to understand narratives, while advocating for consistent, high quality design based on sound rationale
- Your portfolio will show that you've worked on and led complex and challenging projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design) across large, horizontal scopes and groups, with a preference for large-scale enterprise and SAAS products
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
- Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer
- Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and / or similar design tools
- Possesses knowledge of HTML / CSS / JavaScript
- 10+ years of experience as Product Designer
What the job involves
- The UI Platform team is the force multiplier for Okta’s entire product portfolio. By building world-class components, accessible frameworks, and developer-friendly tools, your work will directly impact millions of administrative and end-user interactions every day
- You will work alongside dedicated product and engineering partners in an environment that values speed, clarity, and career-defining impact
- The Staff Product Designer – UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a foundational design lead for Okta's global user experience infrastructure
- Joining the Product Platform group, you will act as a resident expert and strategic thought partner, shaping the horizontal design patterns, design architecture, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility standards (WCAG) that power every Okta Workforce Identity product
- You will partner directly with cross functional UI Platform leads to drive platform-level initiatives, harmonizing user experience (UX) and developer experience (DevEx) across our engineering and product organizations. You will also collaborate closely with the Design Systems team, acting as a bridge between the system and feature teams applying it to our product
- When everyone on the team can generate UI, the designer's role shifts. You become the person responsible for strong systems thinking, taste, quality, experience, and being the voice of the customer. You hold the quality bar when speed is pushing everything toward "fine."
- UI & system leadership: In partnership with the Design Systems team, serve as a UI platform and design system expert, identifying / creating, documenting, and evangelizing scalable, accessible (WCAG), and localized patterns to resolve dependencies across products
- Strategic partnership: Partner with cross functional UI Platform leads to align vision with design strategy, co-owning the roadmap to balance features, tech debt, quality, and adoption
- Raise the craft: Enable Okta Research and Development teams through clear alignment and documentation. Improve org-wide processes and mentor designers to promote craft excellence, candid feedback, and growth
- Data informed decision making: Leverage data and AI insights to inform clear, platform-level design decisions and streamline governance
Application process
- In your application, please include a link to your portfolio with password (if protected). We prioritize a review of your design craft and any examples of your work in code
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. It aims to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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