Director of AI & Automation, Okta
$266-398k
+ Bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Be an early applicant
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$266-398k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5+ years of engineering leadership (including second-line management or equivalent)
- Proven success leading high-impact teams and programs involving platform development, distributed systems, and cloud-native services
- Experience with AI/ML or GenAI technologies, including integration of LLMs, NLP systems, orchestration frameworks, and vector-based search
- Strong foundation in system architecture, secure development practices, and enterprise platform engineering
- Ability to influence at the executive level and drive alignment across engineering, product, data, and security organizations
- Track record of building and scaling teams, driving cultural excellence, and developing engineering leaders
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with comfort navigating technical and non-technical conversations
- A strategic mindset, customer orientation, and a bias for impact and innovation
What the job involves
- Okta’s Business Technology organization powers the internal systems that drive how we operate, scale, and innovate
- At the heart of this transformation is the Business Technology Shared Services team — building secure, enterprise-grade capabilities that embed GenAI and automation into the fabric of our business
- From virtual agents and document intelligence to smart workflow platforms and AI-enabled service delivery, we’re creating foundational systems that support the next generation of productivity, self-service, and secure operations across Okta
- As Director of AI & Automation, you will lead a growing engineering team (mix of Full Stack and AI/ML Engineers) focused on building, scaling, and operationalizing AI and automation platforms that serve internal users across Okta
- You’ll own delivery of complex cross-functional programs, set long-term technical direction in partnership with engineering and product leadership, and help shape how AI and automation are responsibly adopted across the enterprise.
- This is a senior leadership role for a proven technical leader who can scale teams, influence strategy, and deliver secure, intelligent platforms with broad business impact
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization — managing multiple teams responsible for delivering AI/automation platforms, services, and internal tools
- Set vision and direction in partnership with product, architecture, data science, and security leaders to define scalable, responsible adoption of GenAI technologies
- Own end-to-end delivery of cross-functional programs — including intelligent agents, AI-assisted workflows, and self-service automation frameworks
- Drive the evolution of Okta’s internal GenAI platform strategy, including governance, experimentation frameworks, architecture patterns, and infrastructure
- Establish engineering excellence standards across architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability
- Partner across Business Technology and enterprise stakeholders (IT, HR, Finance, Customer Support, etc.) to align technology strategy with business outcomes
- Coach and grow leaders and ICs — building an inclusive, collaborative, and purpose-driven team culture
- Help shape policy and technical standards for responsible AI use, security, and privacy within internal AI systems
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. They aim 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
(CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(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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