Manager, Product Design - Okta Research & Development

Okta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 146,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

RRSP with company match

Healthcare spending account

Paid leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a global design team focused on Workforce Identity Cloud experiences. You will collaborate with Product and Engineering to define and prioritize UX across complex use cases, ensuring secure, simple, and valuable product experiences.

The role emphasizes building a secure, trusted platform with deep integrations, and developing a high-performing design organization. Toronto office-based with hybrid collaboration expectations.

Qualifications

• Degree in related field or relevant work experience as a UX designer/manager.
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or similar design tools.
• Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
• Portfolio demonstrates complex and challenging technical projects across design process, leadership, and UX strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and motivate a high-performing design team.
• Establish a climate where reports can do their best work and collaborate.
• Increase UX maturity through practices, processes, and career development.
• Review UX deliverables and provide guidance to ensure high-quality output.
• Influence product roadmap with cross-functional partners and drive UX forward.
• Collaborate with EPD to lead UX strategy for the product area and cross-product initiatives.

Skills

Navigate ambiguity

UX leadership

Design strategy

Collaborative teamwork

Education

Degree in related field or UX/manager experience

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. the company 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.

Overview

the company is looking for a Product Design Manager who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to Workforce Identity Cloud customers. At the company, 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 the company, 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.

Finer print

You will lead user experience strategy and execution for the projects across the company 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.

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 the company’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 the company's business strategy and VMTs, influence the product roadmap in collaboration with cross-functional partners while driving design forward at the company.
• 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.

Who we are looking for

• You are able to navigate ambiguity and envision complex UX ecosystems, rallying around a common vision while providing space for team-led innovation.
• You possess a clear vision of the future of user experience and have the courage to lead and pursue forward-thinking design.
• You advocate for design and experience quality across your team.
• You are experienced in understanding user and customer needs and can translate those into experiences that provide meaningful value for customers and the business.
• You are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and well-designed user experiences.
• You 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 needs.
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests.
• You have a clear philosophy about how to successfully manage design teams.
• You have experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders.
• You have a collaborative team spirit with great communication skills.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Qualifications:

• Degree in related field or relevant work experience as a UX designer/manager
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools.
• Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
• Your 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.
• Must attend in person orientation in the Toronto office on the first Tuesday of employment.
• Must be able to come into the Toronto office 2 days a week.

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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, the company 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:https://rewards.the company.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$146,000—$201,000 CAD

The the company Experience

• Supporting Your Well-Being
• Driving Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

the company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding pleasen