Staff Product Designer

Okta, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta, a leading identity management provider, seeks a Staff Product Designer to enhance enterprise experiences. You will lead UX strategies, design user interfaces, and mentor your team while collaborating with cross-functional partners. Bring your passion for design and innovation to help shape our identity solutions in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Amazing Benefits

Making Social Impact

Developing Talent and Community

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-discipline teams.
• 7+ years of experience in Product or UX design.
• Proficient in design tools like Figma, Sketch.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UX strategy and take products from concept to launch.
• Design co-creation workshops to define product opportunities.
• Mentor junior designers and improve design practices.

Skills

User Experience Design

Cross-discipline Leadership

Complex Problem Solving

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Degree in a related field

Relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

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.

Okta is looking for a talented Staff Product Designer (you!) who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to our enterprise admins. Okta’s vision is to “free everyone to safely use any technology”. 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?”

Which is where you come in! As aStaff Product Designerfor Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft and expertise on a range of products and services. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we’re researching and investing in. Some of your work will be functional, practical user experience design, where you will help our design team drive cohesive user experience across Okta’s portfolio of products. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organization to flesh out, frame, and help prioritize solutions in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space.

The Finer Print

Okta Platform 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 designer, your focus will be on helping us build a secure, trusted and unified platform with deep integrations.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead a holistic, human-centered approach to design
• Lead and oversee the UX strategy alongside cross-functional partners, collaborating to take products from concept to launch and define the long term strategy for your product area.
• Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering and Design to define opportunities within our products to solve valuable customer problems
• Craft user-centered artifacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams contributing to Workforce Identity Management around the broader user experience
• Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences across different user scenarios
• 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.
• Advocate, mentor, and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams and new designers alike; partnering with UX team members to uphold our principles and standards
• Actively mentor junior designers and contribute toward team-level and design practice and process improvements.
• Work with Design Leadership to define and drive the frameworks, contracts, and standards for others to be able to then build on top of and add value to, ensuring the quality of UX delivery
• Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; collaborating with user researchers to 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
• Help product designers create success metrics to illustrate a clear understanding how their designs impact customers
• Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership; working to distill complex technical problems into clear, conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions.
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends; Perform competitive and comparative analysis to understand existing patterns.

Who We Are Looking For

• You have experience leading cross-discipline teams and exemplify leadership.
• You are passionate about solving complex problems, crafting and sharing product and design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive user experiences.
• You are great at collaborating, You share work early and often, and seek constructive feedback from peers and stakeholders.
• You have the heart of a teacher and can help mentor and train people. You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
• You are a thought leader, undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while also delivering practical designs
• You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcome; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area.
• You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests.
• 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)

Qualifications:

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
• 7+ years of experience
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools.
• Please provide a digital portfolio that showcases solid skills across a variety of projects, including work that has been seen and used successfully in actual products. (Portfolio link required when applying, please include password)

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer

#LI-MM

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

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.

Okta is looking for a talented Staff Product Designer (you!) who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to our enterprise admins. Okta’s vision is to “free everyone to safely use any technology”. 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?”

Which is where you come in! As aStaff Product Designerfor Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft and expertise on a range of products and services. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we’re researching and investing in. Some of your work will be functional, practical user experience design, where you will help our design team drive cohesive user experience across Okta’s portfolio of products. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organization to flesh out, frame, and help prioritize solutions in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space.

The Finer Print

Okta Platform 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 designer, your focus will be on helping us build a secure, trusted and unified platform with deep integrations.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead a holistic, human-centered approach to design
• Lead and oversee the UX strategy alongside cross-functional partners, collaborating to take products from concept to launch and define the long term strategy for your product area.
• Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering and Design to define opportunities within our products to solve valuable customer problems
• Craft user-centered artifacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams contributing to Workforce Identity Management around the broader user experience
• Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences across different user scenarios
• 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.
• Advocate, mentor, and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams and new designers alike; partnering with UX team members to uphold our principles and standards
• Actively mentor junior designers and contribute toward team-level and design practice and process improvements.
• Work with Design Leadership to define and drive the frameworks, contracts, and standards for others to be able to then build on top of and add value to, ensuring the quality of UX delivery
• Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; collaborating with user researchers to 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
• Help product designers create success metrics to illustrate a clear understanding how their designs impact customers
• Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership; working to distill complex technical problems into clear, conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions.
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends; Perform competitive and comparative analysis to understand existing patterns.

Who We Are Looking For

• You have experience leading cross-discipline teams and exemplify leadership.
• You are passionate about solving complex problems, crafting and sharing product and design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive user experiences.
• You are great at collaborating, You share work early and often, and seek constructive feedback from peers and stakeholders.
• You have the heart of a teacher and can help mentor and train people. You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
• You are a thought leader, undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while also delivering practical designs
• You are someone who sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcome; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area.
• You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests.
• 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)

Qualifications:

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
• 7+ years of experience
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools.
• Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
• Please provide a digital portfolio that showcases solid skills across a variety of projects, including work that has been seen and used successfully in actual products. (Portfolio link required when applying, please include password)

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer

#LI-Remote

#LI-MM

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $170,000 — $256,000 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: $152,000 — $228,000 USD

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

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

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.

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.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/ .

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