Manager of Product Design (Okta Research & Development)

Okta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home opportunities

Health + Wellness

Financial Benefits

Pay + Incentives

Time Off

Everyday Living

Resources

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead and grow a talented design team focused on Workforce Identity Cloud. You will define and drive high-quality user experiences across ORD, ensuring security, simplicity, and scale for enterprise customers.

Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps and prioritize UX work in a global, fast-paced environment. Office in Toronto required 2 days weekly for in-person orientation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience building and mentoring product design teams.
• Strong portfolio showing complex, technical UX work.
• Ability to translate user needs into cohesive experiences.
• Ability to lead in a fast-paced, global design practice.
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing product design team.
• Define UX strategy across ORD projects.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to prioritize UX.
• Review deliverables and provide constructive feedback.
• Drive design maturity and establish best practices.

Skills

Collaborative team spirit

Communication skills

Coaching and mentoring

Empathy for users

UX strategy

Ambiguity navigation

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in related field or UX design/manager experience

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

• Okta is looking for a Product Design Manager who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to Workforce Identity Cloud customers
• 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?"
• As a Product Designer Manager for Okta, you’ll lead, grow, and support members of our amazing product design team, ensuring our product user experience is valuable, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution
• You will help define and drive practice and process across our global design practice
• In close collaboration and partnership with Product and Engineering, you will flesh out, frame, and help prioritize UX in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space that millions of people rely on every day
• You will lead user experience strategy and execution for the projects across Okta Research & Development (ORD). 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 Product Design Manager, your focus will be on helping us build a secure, trusted, and unified platform with deep integrations
• 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 helping shape team-wide practices, processes, career development, and growing the team
• Ensure design quality and consistency by reviewing UX deliverables (research, designs, etc.) and provides feedback and direction to ensure high-quality output
• Thorough understanding of Okta’s business strategy and VMTs, influence the product roadmap in collaboration with cross-functional partners while driving design forward at Okta
• Proactively identify strategic UX opportunities within your domain area and the product as a whole. Closely collaborating with EPD (Engineering, Product, Design) in a global team to lead and drive UX strategy for your product area and drive cross-product initiatives

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities
• Health + Wellness
• Financial Benefits
• Pay + Incentives
• Time Off
• Everyday Living
• Resources

You have a collaborative team spirit with great communication skillsYou are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interestsYou have the heart of a teacher and can help coach and train people. You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needsYou are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and well-designed user experiencesYou are able to navigate ambiguity and envision complex UX ecosystems, rallying around a common vision while providing space for team-led innovationYou possess a clear vision of the future of user experience and have the courage to lead and pursue forward-thinking designYou have experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholdersYou have a clear philosophy about how to successfully manage design teamsYou are experienced in understanding user and customer needs and can translate those into experiences that provide meaningful value for customers and the businessYou advocate for design and experience quality across your teamYou share our values, and work in accordance with those valuesProficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design toolsPossesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScriptDegree in related field or relevant work experience as a UX designer/managerMust be able to come into the Toronto office 2 days a weekMust attend in person orientation in the Toronto office on the first Tuesday of employmentYour portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design). As well, your portfolio will showcase your values and philosophies with regard to design management, leadership, and UX strategy.