Staff Product Designer - Enterprise Access

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is looking for a talented Staff Product Designer (you!) who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to our enterprise admins. At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. We bring simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, promising to not only protect the identities of our customers' workforce and users, but to ask, “what more can we make possible?” Which is where you come in! ​​As a Staff Product Designer for Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft and expertise on a range of products and services. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we’re researching and investing in. Some of your work will be functional, practical user experience design, where you will help our design team drive cohesive user experience across Okta’s portfolio of products. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organization to flesh out, frame, and help prioritize solutions in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space. Finer print You will lead user experience strategy and execution for our Okta Research & Development (ORD) business unit. Specifically, ORD will solve every identity use case at work – for all types of people (employees, business partners, contractors, frontline workers), for all types of resources (SaaS, servers, privileged resources, machines, etc.), for the largest and most secure businesses in the world. As a designer, your focus will be on helping us build a secure, trusted, and unified platform with deep integrations. What you will do Lead a holistic, human-centered approach to design Guide and oversee the UX strategy alongside cross-functional partners, collaborating to take products from concept to launch and define the long term strategy for your product area. Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering and Design to define opportunities within our products to solve valuable customer problems Craft user-centered artifacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams contributing to Workforce Identity Management around the broader user experience Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences across different user scenarios Inspire teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative process and fail forward mentality to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products. Advocate, mentor, and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams and new designers alike; partnering with UX team members to uphold our principles and standards Mentor junior designers and contribute toward team-level and design practice and process improvements. Work with Design Leadership to define and drive the frameworks, contracts, and standards for others to be able to then build on top of and add value to, ensuring the quality of UX delivery Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; collaborating with user researchers to research and synthesize user needs to help conceive, define, test and evolve solutions for our users across a range of mediums and experiences; Advocate for users and delivering user and customer outcomes in a dynamic work environment Help product designers create success metrics to illustrate a clear understanding how their designs impact customers Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership; working to distill complex technical problems into clear, conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions. Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends; Perform competitive and comparative analysis to understand existing patterns. Advocate and encourage thoughtful use of AI for brainstorming and iterating on potential solutions, prototyping, and collaborating with team member. What we are looking for You have experience leading cross-discipline teams and exemplify leadership. You’re curious and have experience incorporating AI into your design process, including the ability to craft tools, iterate on ideas collaboratively with AI, and document sophisticated prompts for scaled use. Evaluate AI-generated outputs for technical accuracy, design system adherence, and ease of use to serve as a necessary quality bar before designs move to production You are passionate about solving complex problems, crafting and sharing product and design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive user experiences. You are great at collaborating, You share work early and often, and seek constructive feedback from peers and stakeholders. You have the heart of a teacher and can help mentor and train people. You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs. You are a thought leader, undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while also delivering practical designs You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcome; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area. You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests. Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and/or technical projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design) Qualifications: 8+ years of relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer, with a portfolio showcasing shipped B2B or enterprise products. Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer. Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools. Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript. Can provide a digital portfolio that showcases solid skills across a variety of projects, including work that has been seen and used successfully in actual products. (Portfolio link required when applying.)

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: . The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$140,000 — $193,000 CAD

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