Director of Product Management, Okta

• Experience: 9–13+ years of progressive Product Management experience in B2B enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, or core infrastructure
• Leadership: 3+ years of direct people management experience managing product managers (including experience managing senior/principal PMs or Group PMs)
• Domain & Technical Expertise: Strong architectural foundation in identity systems, administrative access control (RBAC), usage metering, or AI-assisted enterprise workflows
• Execution Track Record: Proven experience driving high-throughput launches and owning business/platform outcomes across interconnected product lines
• Resource Management: Demonstrated success in mediating complex engineering resource trade-offs and cross-product dependencies
• Executive Communication: Exceptional strategic narrative development, board-level communication, and executive presence with internal and external enterprise stakeholders
• Raises Talent Density: Actively hires, coaches, and retains top-tier PM talent to elevate team capabilities
• Love Our Customers: Focuses platform outcomes on making life easier, safer, and more productive for enterprise admins
• Strategic Mindset: Balances immediate execution demands against a multi-year vision for enterprise-scale platform cohesion
• Drives Results: Takes end-to-end accountability for business impact, platform scaling, and product delivery

Desirable

• At Okta, we are on a mission to free everyone to safely use any technology
• As the Director of Product Management – Platform, you will own and drive the multi-year product strategy for Okta’s foundational platform suite
• Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, this role has complete product ownership over the core infrastructure powering Okta’s enterprise identity engine
• You will manage and mentor a team of Product Managers, translating Okta’s overarching company vision into an execution-focused roadmap
• Your platform portfolio spans identity automation (Okta Workflows), core cloud identity directory (Universal Directory), multi-org governance (Okta Aerial), business continuity (Backup & Recovery), administrative design standards (UI Platform), monetization primitives (Licensing & Metering), and end-to-end Multi-Product Experiences (including AI assistants, unified policy layer, universal search, admin dashboard, and platform RBAC)
• Translate Okta's overarching enterprise vision into a comprehensive, multi-year product strategy and roadmap for the entire Platform portfolio
• Leverage a deep understanding of competitive market dynamics, security architecture trends, and SaaS infrastructure evolutions to anticipate market shifts and maintain Okta's competitive advantage
• Partner closely with the CPO, CTO, architectural leadership, and cross-functional execs to align platform investments with broader corporate strategy
• Take direct accountability for core business results, high-throughput platform feature launches, and global platform resilience/uptime SLAs
• Arbitrate and mediate complex cross-team resource allocations, balancing architectural scaling and technical debt against customer-facing multi-product initiatives
• Multi-Product Experiences: Lead cross-product convergence including the Unified Policy Layer, AI Assistants, Universal Search, centralized Admin Dashboard, and Platform RBAC for Admins
• Okta Workflows: Drive low-code/no-code orchestration, event-driven execution, and integration ecosystem scale
• Universal Directory (UD): Scale Okta’s central cloud identity store for massive global enterprise customer performance and reliability
• Okta Aerial: Deliver Okta's centralized multi-org visibility, management, and governance platform
• UI Platform: Own the common admin UI framework, design system, and frontend architecture across all Okta products
• Licensing & Metering: Build global billing primitives, consumption tracking, feature flag architectures, and entitlement engines
• Backup & Recovery: Ensure enterprise-grade disaster recovery, configuration backups, and point-in-time restore capabilities
• Build, retain, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers
• Hire aggressively to raise talent density across the product organization, fostering an environment of technical rigor, accountability, and customer empathy
• Act swiftly on performance gaps, actively coaching team members toward career growth while holding high execution standards
• Serve as the primary executive champion for Okta's platform strategy with CISOs, CIOs, strategic enterprise accounts, and industry analysts
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success leadership to translate abstract platform capabilities into clear go-to-market value propositions