Senior Product Designer - Identity Threat Protection/Essential Security

Okta Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health benefits

RRSP match

Paid leave

Job summary

Okta Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape a broad product portfolio across identity and security.

You will craft end-to-end flows for multiple personas, bring a systems-thinking lens, and collaborate across UX, research, product, and engineering to ensure secure, user-centric experiences. The role requires 5+ years of design experience, a strong portfolio on complex technical projects, and a track record of collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer.
• Portfolio demonstrates work on complex technical projects.
• Experience incorporating AI into design process and crafting prompts.
• Ability to connect user insights to business goals.
• Comfort owning all stages of design from discovery to handoff.
• Able to thrive in ambiguous environments and lead when needed.
• Storytelling skills to communicate design ideas to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy with impact on user experience and business outcomes.
• Apply systems-thinking to connect user insights with business goals for scalable experiences.
• Collaborate with user research, UX writing, product, engineering, marketing, and data science to influence decisions.
• Design end-to-end flows for IT Admin, Security admins, End-user across the Okta portfolio.
• Create scalable design patterns to enhance consistency and efficiency across the product.
• Present work and ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership to drive alignment.
• Advocate for thoughtful use of AI in brainstorming, prototyping, and collaboration.

Skills

Product design

AI in design

Portfolio

Cross-functional

Discovery and research

Job description

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.

We are looking for a talented Senior Product Designer who can help shape Okta’s expansive product portfolio by bringing exceptional craft and fresh perspective to the world of identity and security.

Finer print

You will join a team of designers and researchers who work collaboratively to deliver high quality solutions to complex identity problems. As a centralized design team, we have a high degree of autonomy and ownership towards the outcomes we drive for our customers. We also work closely with our Product Management and Engineering counterparts to ensure our solutions are not only user-centric but also technically feasible and aligned with business needs. Together, we collaborate to define problems, explore innovative solutions and deliver seamless experiences that enhance security and usability for our customers.

What you will do

• Drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy for your team ensuring a meaningful impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
• Bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and connect the dots between user insights and business goals to create experiences that keep millions of customers safe every day.
• Drive impact by framing problems and exploring solutions in collaboration with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, and data science to deliver best in class experiences. You will have the opportunity to lead through influence.
• Design end-to-end flows that involve multiple personas – IT Admin, Security admins, End-user – and consider complex use cases that span the Okta portfolio ensuring that every user of Okta can do their work efficiently while staying secure.
• Perfect the details to design scalable and usable design patterns that drive a lasting impact, ensuring they not only meet a high bar for design quality and efficiency but also enhance efficiency and consistency across the product.
• Regularly present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership to drive alignment, showcase design impact and influence key product decisions.
• Advocate and encourage thoughtful use of AI for brainstorming and iterating on potential solutions, prototyping, and collaborating with team members

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (generative and evaluative research, discovery, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, etc.)
• 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.
• You stay grounded in delivering real user value even when moving fast and are able to connect the dots across a fast-moving, complex portfolio without losing sight of the person on the other end of the workflow.
• You're comfortable owning all stages of design, from early discovery through final execution and handoff, and collaborating closely across design, product, and engineering across teams to get there.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments and know when to lead versus when to learn.
• You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
• You are someone who sees design as a partner with PM and Engineering in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes
• You showcase story telling skills to communicate your design ideas to a variety of stakeholders.

**You must attend in person orientation in Toronto.

**You must go into the Toronto office 2 days a week.

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: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $118,000 — $162,000 CAD

The Okta 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.

Okta 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.

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