Product Design Manager, Okta Research - Toronto - Okta for Developers

Description

Product Design Manager, Okta Research & Development

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Overview

Okta is looking for a Product Design Manager who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to Workforce Identity Cloud customers. You'll lead, grow, and support our product design team, ensuring user experience is valuable, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. You will define and drive practice and process across our global design practice in close collaboration with Product and Engineering.

Finer print

As Product Design Manager, you'll lead user experience strategy and execution for the projects across Okta Research & Development (ORD). ORD solves every identity use case at work – for all types of people and resources – for the largest and most secure businesses in the world. Your focus will be on building a secure, trusted, and unified platform with deep integrations.

In this role, you'll get to…

• Lead, grow, and motivate a high‑performing design team.
• Establish and maintain a climate in which your reports can do their best work; cultivating design excellence and a place where designers can collaborate and learn.
• Increase Okta's UX maturity by shaping team‑wide practices, processes, career development, and growing the team.
• Ensure design quality and consistency by reviewing UX deliverables and providing feedback and direction to ensure high‑quality output.
• Understand Okta's business strategy and influence the product roadmap in collaboration with cross‑functional partners while driving design forward.
• Proactively identify strategic UX opportunities within your domain area and the product as a whole, collaborating with EPD (Engineering, Product, Design) in a global team to lead and drive UX strategy for your product area and cross‑product initiatives.

Who We Are Looking For

• Navigate ambiguity and envision complex UX ecosystems, rallying around a common vision while providing space for team‑led innovation.
• Hold a clear vision of the future of user experience and have the courage to lead and pursue forward‑thinking design.
• Advocate for design and experience quality across your team.
• Understand user and customer needs and translate them into experiences that provide meaningful value for customers and the business.
• Passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and well‑designed user experiences.
• Have a heart of a teacher and can coach and train people; build and share empathy with people to deeply understand their needs.
• Support teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests.
• Have a clear philosophy about how to successfully manage design teams.
• Have experience driving organizational change with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Have a collaborative team spirit with great communication skills.
• Share our values and work in accordance with those values.

Qualifications

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a UX designer/manager.
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools.
• Basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
• Your portfolio demonstrates work on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design). Portfolios should showcase your values and philosophies with regard to design management, leadership, and UX strategy.

Okta's Core Leadership Competencies

• Builds Effective Teams: Build strong‑identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Demonstrates Self‑Awareness (EQ): Use feedback and reflection to gain insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: See ahead to future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies.
• Must attend in‑person onboarding in Toronto the first week of work.

Salary and Benefits

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. 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). The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between $130,000—$194,000 CAD.

What you can look forward to as a Full‑Time Okta employee

• Amazing Benefits.
• Making Social Impact.
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta.

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology, and benefits to empower employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today

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