Principal Product Designer

Okta, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Principal Product Designer to enhance the user experience and strategy across their Access Management Pillar. The role focuses on creating innovative design solutions and fostering collaboration within design and engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience and a strong passion for design quality and accessibility.

Benefits

Amazing Benefits

Paid Leave including PTO and parental leave

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as Product Designer.
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Miro, and Balsamiq.
• Ability to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Drive a human-centered approach and navigate the needs of multiple personas.
• Participate in and lead design rituals.
• Create system and mental models at the platform level.

Skills

Systems thinking

Communication

Collaboration

User experience

Education

Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer

Tools

Figma

Miro

Balsamiq

Job description

Get to know Okta

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

As a PrincipalProduct Designer for Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to build the forward-looking vision for Okta’s entire suite of services. You will shape a culture that deeply appreciates our customers and how to best serve them. Your work will go deep at times, but you’ll also be constantly seeking opportunities to connect journeys and experiences horizontally across the Okta Platform suite. You notice the details and deeply understand how the product works. Ensuring that using our products together creates an experience that is “greater than the sum of its parts” will be critical to Okta’s success in the coming years.

Finer print

This role will be focused on the UX strategy for the Access Management Pillar within the Okta Platform. Working alongside Product and Engineering teams, you’ll bring this strategy to life through explorations, prototypes, and other design artifacts that foster clarity across groups and teams. In addition, you’ll be an effective collaborator and communicator – elevating the voice of design across functions and pillars. Finally, you’ll play a key part in elevating the design practice at Okta, both in terms of craft and team culture.

In this role, you’ll get to…

• Drive a holistic, human-centered approach and navigate the needs of multiple personas (IT admins, Security teams, end users, and developers) to design products that impact millions of users across every industry
• Create new system and mental models at the platform level that align stakeholders and multiple types of users, helping everyone have a seamless day at work
• Act as an ambassador for Product Design and develop a strong relationships with the broader Engineering and Product Management community that puts customers at the heart of the process (discovery, iterative ways of working, reviews, etc)
• Challenge teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative process and fail forward mentality to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products.
• Participate in and lead rituals that advance the craft of the design practice at Okta, including Design Share, Town Halls, mentorship programs, critique, etc.
• Support our embedded design team and partner closely with designers to ensure that our product components, interactions, and patterns align with our design system
• Facilitate cross-functional brainstorming sessions, design sprints, etc., and align the group around solutions
• Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; Research and synthesize user needs to help conceive, define, test and evolve solutions for our users across a range of mediums and experiences; Advocate for users and delivering user and customer outcomes in a dynamic work environment
• Be a thought leader and an advocate for design quality, accessibility, internationalization to ensure our requirements are met at the team and leadership level
• Empower designers and developers through a culture of continuous learning by helping to field system related questions and share out best practices with the larger design team
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

Who we are looking for

• You are passionate about helping customers solve real problems
• You relish effective teamwork – and you are a key contributor to building a healthy team
• You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and can effectively identify elegant, extensible solutions
• You are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and quality user experiences
• You have excellent craft and enjoy diving into the details to ensure high quality experiences for our customers
• You have a learning mindset, able to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity, helping your team drive toward clarity
• You build and collaborate with partners in order to assist in their needs
• You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area
• You have strong communication skills and can distill complex concepts into simple, easy to understand narratives
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on and led complex and challenging projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design) across large, horizontal scopes and groups
• You share our values , and work in accordance with those values

Qualifications

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer
• Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and / or similar design tools.
• 10+ years of experience as Product Designer
• You will be required to attend in person onboarding in either San Francisco or Chicago.

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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.

As a PrincipalProduct Designer for Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to build the forward-looking vision for Okta’s entire suite of services. You will shape a culture that deeply appreciates our customers and how to best serve them. Your work will go deep at times, but you’ll also be constantly seeking opportunities to connect journeys and experiences horizontally across the Okta Platform suite. You notice the details and deeply understand how the product works. Ensuring that using our products together creates an experience that is “greater than the sum of its parts” will be critical to Okta’s success in the coming years.

Finer print

This role will be focused on the UX strategy for the Access Management Pillar within the Okta Platform. Working alongside Product and Engineering teams, you’ll bring this strategy to life through explorations, prototypes, and other design artifacts that foster clarity across groups and teams. In addition, you’ll be an effective collaborator and communicator – elevating the voice of design across functions and pillars. Finally, you’ll play a key part in elevating the design practice at Okta, both in terms of craft and team culture.

In this role, you’ll get to…

• Drive a holistic, human-centered approach and navigate the needs of multiple personas (IT admins, Security teams, end users, and developers) to design products that impact millions of users across every industry
• Create new system and mental models at the platform level that align stakeholders and multiple types of users, helping everyone have a seamless day at work
• Act as an ambassador for Product Design and develop a strong relationships with the broader Engineering and Product Management community that puts customers at the heart of the process (discovery, iterative ways of working, reviews, etc)
• Challenge teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative process and fail forward mentality to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products.
• Participate in and lead rituals that advance the craft of the design practice at Okta, including Design Share, Town Halls, mentorship programs, critique, etc.
• Support our embedded design team and partner closely with designers to ensure that our product components, interactions, and patterns align with our design system
• Facilitate cross-functional brainstorming sessions, design sprints, etc., and align the group around solutions
• Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; Research and synthesize user needs to help conceive, define, test and evolve solutions for our users across a range of mediums and experiences; Advocate for users and delivering user and customer outcomes in a dynamic work environment
• Be a thought leader and an advocate for design quality, accessibility, internationalization to ensure our requirements are met at the team and leadership level
• Empower designers and developers through a culture of continuous learning by helping to field system related questions and share out best practices with the larger design team
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

Who we are looking for

• You are passionate about helping customers solve real problems
• You relish effective teamwork – and you are a key contributor to building a healthy team
• You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and can effectively identify elegant, extensible solutions
• You are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and quality user experiences
• You have excellent craft and enjoy diving into the details to ensure high quality experiences for our customers
• You have a learning mindset, able to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity, helping your team drive toward clarity
• You build and collaborate with partners in order to assist in their needs
• You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area
• You have strong communication skills and can distill complex concepts into simple, easy to understand narratives
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on and led complex and challenging projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design) across large, horizontal scopes and groups
• You share our values , and work in accordance with those values

Qualifications

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer
• Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and / or similar design tools.
• Possesses at least a basic knowledge of HTML / CSS / JavaScript (not required)
• 10+ years of experience as Product Designer
• You will be required to attend in person onboarding in either San Francisco or Chicago.

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $201,000 — $301,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, 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/us .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between: $179,000 — $269,000 USD

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

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Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our 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! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/ .

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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