Director of Okta Threat Intelligence, Okta
$200-275k
Offers equity (where applicable) and 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
$200-275k
Offers 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
- We are looking for a highly motivated individual contributor to work at the intersection of identity-based attacks and agentic AI
- You lead by example and influence. The most creative and technically gifted people in the room want to work with you and for you
- You’re a team player. You prefer to work in a team where every colleague rolls up their sleeves and contributes equally
- You have great communications skills and boundless curiosity
- You write succinctly and speak persuasively
- You work with purpose. You are motivated by the prospect of driving security best practices in a company that protects millions of people
- You have a demonstrated ability to evaluate risk and to produce finished intelligence under tight deadlines
- A degree in a relevant field would be beneficial but is not strictly required. We value real-world experience and demonstrable skills and influence in the cyber domain
- Evidence of strong written communication and presentation skills
- Evidence of strong data analysis and scripting skills (predominantly using SQL and Python)
- Demonstrable use of AI workflows or agents to accelerate your research and analysis
- Ability to handle sensitive information with a high degree of integrity and discretion
What the job involves
- Okta Threat Intelligence is the capability within Okta that delivers timely insights to customers that are both highly relevant and actionable, and that contribute to public conversations about identity-based attacks. Our research reinforces customer confidence in Okta’s best-in-class security capabilities
- The successful candidate requires strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as cyber domain knowledge
- Gather intelligence requirements from multiple stakeholders
- Collaborate with product engineering and security teams to anonymize, aggregate and derive threat-related insights from platform data
- Identify and research emerging or novel identity-based threats in order to produce actionable intelligence for customers and the broader community
- Coordinate the distribution of finished intelligence, seeking new and creative ways of making our insights more accessible and actionable for customers and partners
- Brief Okta’s strategic customers about the threat environment, and handle inbound inquiries where required
- Measure the impact of intelligence and analysis products on customer adoption and secure configuration
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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