Strategic AI Initiatives Senior Manager, Okta
$162-242k
Plus equity (where applicable), and bonus
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Open for applications
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$162-242k
Plus equity (where applicable), and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years of experience, ideally in business operations, innovation, strategy and/or product management roles
- Proven track record incubating new functions, initiatives, or products from scratch in high-ambiguity environments
- Builder’s mindset: scrappy, action-oriented, and comfortable iterating quickly without perfect plans
- Product management skill set: can define success metrics, scope MVPs, manage pilots, and think like a product manager even if not formally in PM roles
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills: experienced in aligning multiple teams with competing priorities, working with executive sponsors to push through blockers, and securing sign-off across functions
- Enterprise context awareness: familiarity with navigating large organizations and working across domains like GTM, G&A, Security, and Product
- Strategic radar: ability to identify the 2–3 moonshots that truly move the business, not just the 10 interesting experiments
What the job involves
- Okta is looking for a Strategic AI Initiatives Senior Manager to join our AI Strategy team. As Okta accelerates its use of generative AI, this role will own the 0-to-1 incubation of transformative GenAI initiatives that cross team boundaries and require centralized ownership to succeed
- You will act as the driver and business owner for unowned, high-value AI products — from sourcing opportunities to piloting solutions and scaling those that deliver measurable impact. Our ideal candidate has a builder’s mentality, thrives in ambiguity, and brings a product-oriented approach to incubation, iteration, and stakeholder alignment
- The Strategic AI Initiatives Senior Manager will identify, scope, validate, and execute a portfolio of high-impact agentic use cases that fundamentally shift how Okta operates
- This role reports to the VP of AI Strategy
- Act as business owner for cross-functional, high-impact AI products that lack a clear organizational home
- Source problems across Okta where GenAI can deliver a 10x unlock, and translate them into scoped opportunities
- Lead incubation cycles in partnership with centralized Technology team: pilot, test, fail fast, and scale successful prototypes into enterprise-ready solutions
- Codify learnings into frameworks and playbooks that accelerate future initiatives
- Run cross-functional steering and alignment processes for select initiatives, securing buy-in from relevant teams
- Partner with technical and operational teams to ensure pilots are grounded in enterprise requirements and real user needs
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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