Staff Product Designer (Auth0)

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta’s Emerging Products Design Team is seeking a senior designer to shape the interfaces for secure AI-enabled identity tools. You will work at the intersection of design, engineering, and product, crafting high-fidelity systems for developers and users alike.

You’ll prototype rapidly with AI and code in a React/Next.js environment, refining components and interactions where users experience them. This role emphasizes system thinking, taste, and customer voice to push the boundaries of design

Qualifications

• Craft, typography, spacing, and polished micro-interactions show attention to detail.
• 6+ years of design experience with browser prototyping or production code.
• A practical AI workflow with opinions on where AI tools help or fall short.
• Design for developers with tools, APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and admin dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Prototype at volume using AI tools and code to explore directions quickly.
• Design in the codebase within React and Next.js to refine components and interactions.
• Turn complex authorization models and SDK patterns into clear interfaces without losing precision.
• Raise the craft across the broader design org and collaborate on this new way of working.

Skills

Craft

Design experience

AI practice

Developer-facing design

Tools

React

Next.js

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.

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.

The Emerging Products Design Team

Emerging Products is an org pillar inside Auth0. We figure out what's next. You'll be designing systems that help developers secure AI agents, manage granular permissions, and build on identity primitives that don't fully exist yet.

Engineers, PMs, and Designers work on the same problems at the same time. There is no design-then-build sequence. There's just build.

What you'll be doing

When everyone on the team can generate UI, the designer's role shifts. You become the person responsible for strong systems thinking, taste, quality, experience, and being the voice of the customer. You hold the quality bar when speed is pushing everything toward "fine".

• Prototype at volume : Use AI tools and code to explore dozens of directions fast, then narrow based on what works and what solves the actual problem.
• Design in the codebase: Work within our React and Next.js environment to refine components and interactions where users will actually experience them.
• Simplify complexity: Turn authorization models, SDK patterns, and security flows into interfaces that feel clear without losing precision.
• Raise the craft: Help the broader design org see what this way of working looks like in practice. We're all figuring this out together.

What you'll bring to the role

• You have craft: This matters most. Considered typography, intentional spacing, polished micro-interactions, details that show someone genuinely cared. We're looking for someone with a refined sense of design taste/aesthetics and a deep appreciation for the details that create a polished user experience.
• You build: 6+ years of design experience, but somewhere along the way you started prototyping in the browser, shipping side projects, or writing production code because you wanted the interaction exactly right.
• You have a real AI practice: Not experimentation, but an actual workflow. You have opinions about where AI tools help and where they fall short.
• You design for developers: Tools, APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and admin dashboards. You know "simple" means something different for this audience.

Salary and benefits

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. 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 the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$140,000 - $193,000 USD

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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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