Staff Product Manager - Developer Productivity

Xapply; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 173,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

RRSP with match

Healthcare spending account

Paid leave (PTO & parental leave)

Job summary

Okta seeks a Staff Product Manager to own developer productivity across the development lifecycle, including AI-native and traditional tooling. You will begin with deep engineering interviews, baseline metrics, and a data-driven roadmap defined with engineering leadership.

The role requires hands-on evaluation, cross-team collaboration, and driving adoption for secure, scalable tooling across Okta and Auth0.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience with developer platforms, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI products.
• Experience owning internal or platform products where users have alternatives — adoption driven through product quality rather than mandate.
• Strong understanding of modern software development workflows across inner and outer loops.
• Hands-on fluency with AI-assisted software development and tooling evaluations.
• Demonstrated ability to design and run technology evaluations with measurable outcomes.
• Ability to engage in architectural discussions with senior engineers while separating product outcomes from engineering execution.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence across engineering, security, architecture, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, PRDs, and backlog for internal developer productivity and AI tooling.
• Drive build vs. buy decisions and run tooling evaluations.
• Embed with the engineering teams; define MVP scope, manage sprints, and ship workflows.
• Drive org-wide adoption; clear security, legal, and privacy hurdles.
• Coordinate standardization to reduce diverse implementations; build scalable playbooks.

Skills

Product strategy

Discovery & interviews

AI tooling

Workshop & evaluation

Cross-functional leadership

Engineering conversations

Documentation

Communication

Tools

MCPs

CI/CD

Code review

Job description

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.

Role Overview

AI is rapidly changing how software is designed, built, tested, reviewed, deployed, and operated — and the industry playbook is being rewritten monthly. Okta's Developer Productivity and AI Enablement Engineering teams own building and operating the capabilities that make our engineers fast across the inner and outer development loops. This role is the product counterpart, embedded full-time with that organization, that makes those investments compound by uncovering and prioritizing frictions, bringing the outside in, driving standardize-vs-federate decisions, spreading what works across teams, funding and clearing the path for the best tools, and proving the value.

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to own developer productivity as a product across Okta's development lifecycle — AI-native and traditional tooling alike. You will start bottom-up: interviewing engineers, managers, tech leads, and architects; mapping current inner- and outer-loop tooling and the frictions; and baselining dev-cycle metrics. From there, you will own the roadmap with engineering leadership; benchmark how the best engineering organizations build with AI; define tooling requirements and/or run the tooling evaluations engineering needs in a landscape that changes monthly; find the teams inside Okta getting outsized results and turn their patterns into playbooks; lead build, buy, integrate, and standardize decisions, including the vision for reducing implementation diversity across Okta and Auth0; clear the security, legal, procurement, and budget paths that slow adoption; and own the measurement that connects investment to engineering outcomes — evidence engineering leaders can take into any room.

This is a highly technical internal platform role that creates value for Okta through a cross-team, cross-industry, cross-functional layer that turns individual wins into organizational capability.

What You'll Do

• Product Strategy & Discovery: Own the vision, PRDs, and prioritized backlog for Okta's internal developer productivity and AI tooling. Treat engineers as your customers: start with deep, bottom-up discovery (dozens of engineer, EM, tech lead, and architect interviews), baseline dev-cycle metrics, and secure tooling budgets with rigorous, ROI-driven business cases.
• Ecosystem Validation (Build vs. Buy): Drive definitive "adopt, build, or pass" decisions. Run hands-on, structured evaluations of inner- and outer-loop tooling — from coding agents and MCPs to build, CI/CD, and code review systems — against strict security and TCO criteria to ensure internal investments amplify vendor capabilities.
• Hands-On Execution: Embed full-time with Developer Productivity Engineering and own the roadmap jointly with its engineering leads. Define MVP scopes, manage sprints, and incrementally ship workflows. You own the strategy and requirements (the what and why); Engineering owns the technical execution (the how).
• Adoption & Outcomes: Own org-wide adoption, clearing security, legal, and privacy hurdles along the way. Measure success by connecting tool usage directly to hard engineering outcomes (cycle time, quality, toil reduction).
• Standardization & Lighthouses: Coordinate the vision for reducing implementation diversity across Okta and Auth0 engineering. Study high-performing teams to see who is getting exceptional results, and convert those patterns into scalable playbooks that shift the broader org from passive AI use to agentic workflows.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience with developer platforms, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI products.
• Experience owning internal or platform products where users have alternatives — adoption driven through product quality rather than mandate.
• Strong understanding of modern software development workflows — source control, IDEs, CI/CD, testing, code review, observability, production operations — across the inner and outer loops of development.
• Hands-on, current fluency with AI-assisted software development — coding agents, context management, MCP, evaluation frameworks — and informed views on where these tools create leverage and where they introduce risk.
• Demonstrated ability to design and run technology evaluations and controlled experiments, and to define measurement systems for developer productivity with judgment about their failure modes.
• Ability to engage credibly in technical and architectural discussions with senior engineers while maintaining clear boundaries between product outcomes and engineering implementation.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, security, architecture, and finance without direct authority.
• Excellent written communication in a docs-first culture; you can produce solid action plans from incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying or scaling developer tools across a large, multi-org engineering organization — including consolidating divergent stacks and the change management that comes with it.
• Hands-on familiarity with developer AI tools, harnesses, APIs, MCPs, and agent orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with developer productivity research (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) and its failure modes.
• Experience establishing governance, evaluation frameworks, or spend management for rapidly evolving, consumption-priced technologies.

Why This Role Matters

AI-assisted development is becoming both one of the largest levers on engineering velocity and one of the largest new variable costs in R&D. The playbook changes monthly, and the organizations that win are the ones that learn fastest from the outside, spread what works internally, and measure honestly. That learning-and-leverage layer doesn't build itself — engineering teams optimizing locally, however well, still leave organizational value uncaptured and accumulate divergent implementations that slow everyone down.

This role exists to capture it: dedicated product leadership that brings engineering the external intelligence, funded tooling, cleared paths, shared patterns, and defensible evidence to build with AI faster than any single team could alone — while deepening Okta's firsthand credibility as the company that secures the AI-powered enterprise for its customers.

**Must attend in person orientation in person the first Tuesday of employment. If you are in Toronto, orientation is in Toronto. If you are in Dublin, orientation is in Dublin.

**Must go into the local office 2 days a week.

**Must work North American hours.

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

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $173,000 — $237,600 CAD

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Ireland. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and comprehensive healthcare coverage and financial benefits including paid time off 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/irl.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Ireland is between: €130.000 — €156.000 EUR

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