Senior Product Manager, Identity Policy & Risk

Visa Hunt; Bellevue, Chicago (WA, IL); On-site; USD 169,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Policies to own the strategy and execution of authentication policy roadmap. You will influence risk-based decisions, policy framework evolution, and policy APIs while partnering with engineering, design, and field teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences.

You will lead policy-change processes, engage with customers, and leverage AI to accelerate specifications and competitive analysis, aligning with Okta's enterprise leadership and strategic

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in product management.
• Experience in identity, security, enterprise-scale, platform, or developer products.
• Ability to have in-depth technical discussions with engineering teams.
• Ability to connect platform-level decisions to Okta’s broader business outcomes and market position as a technology leader.
• Ability to empathize and dig deeper into customer problems and needs before designing solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable flexing between spec-level detail and executive narrative.
• Entrepreneurial and ownership mindset.
• Collaborative by default.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap and prioritization for your product area, balancing customer requests, platform needs, and market/strategic differentiation
• Collaborate with design and engineering to define, scope, and ship policies that have best-in-class user experience while meeting the security needs of Okta customers
• Drive product direction for the Policy Framework, Policy API, and Auth Pipeline that underpin every policy evaluation across Okta
• Define how policy changes are managed operationally — versioning, staged rollout, auditability, and rollback — as part of a broader change management and identity operations strategy
• Work directly with customers, Solutions Engineering, Support, and other product teams to understand policy needs and translate them into product requirements
• Use AI tools to accelerate spec writing, competitive analysis, and rapid prototyping to drive roadmap alignment and execution
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including engineering, field teams, tech partnerships, and marketing, to ensure successful launch and adoption of policy-related experiences
• Serve as the subject matter expert, representing Policies in customer escalations, executive briefings, and enterprise prospect evaluations, as well as partnerships with Marketing and GTM counterparts
• Track industry trends in adaptive authentication, risk-based access, and session security to develop solutions differentiated from the competition

Skills

Product management

Identity & security

Technical discussions

Strategic thinking

Customer empathy

Communication

Ownership

Collaboration

Job description

Okta is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Policies to own the strategy and execution of authentication policy roadmap. You will influence risk-based decisions, policy framework evolution, and policy APIs while partnering with engineering, design, and field teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences.

You will lead policy-change processes, engage with customers, and leverage AI to accelerate specifications and competitive analysis, aligning with Okta's enterprise leadership and strategic