Staff Product Designer - Okta Identity Governance

Okta; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Health, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the identity and security UX across a broad product portfolio. You will design end-to-end journeys for IT admins, compliance owners, and end users, while mentoring junior designers and shaping long-term strategy.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and the thoughtful integration of AI to improve usability and outcomes. You will align with PM and Engineering, travel or on-site presence is required in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
• Proficient in Figma or similar design tools.
• At least a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• A digital portfolio showing depth across a variety of projects. (Portfolio link required when applying.)
• 7+ years of experience as Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term design strategy for your product area across multiple releases.
• Partner with design leadership to define patterns and raise the quality bar.
• Lead through influence with product, engineering, research, and content teams.
• Design end-to-end journeys across personas including IT, admins, and end users.
• Apply systems thinking to connect user insights to business goals.
• Facilitate co-creation workshops with PM and Engineering.
• Mentor senior designers and support their growth.
• Present ideas to leadership to drive alignment.
• Advocate thoughtful use of AI in researching, ideation, and prototyping.

Skills

Design leadership

Big-picture thinking

Mentoring

Communication

AI in design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS/JavaScript basics

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.

At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. 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?" 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.

We are looking for a talented Staff Product Designer who can help shape Okta's expansive product portfolio by bringing exceptional craft and fresh perspective to the world of identity and security.

Finer print

You will be designing the user experience for Okta Identity Governance. Large companies need to know who should have access to what and prove it to auditors. We build the tools for requesting, reviewing, and managing that access. At our customers' scale, one review can involve the whole company. Making that feel simple and intuitive is your job.

What you will do

• Own the long-term design strategy for your product area, shaping where it goes across multiple releases, not just the roadmap in front of you.
• Partner with design leadership to define the patterns and standards other designers build on, and raise the quality bar in your area.
• Lead through influence, aligning product, engineering, research, and content partners around a direction without relying on authority.
• Design end-to-end journeys that span the Okta portfolio and multiple personas: IT and security admins, compliance owners, resource owners, approving managers, and end users.
• Bring a systems-thinking lens, connecting user insights to business goals to create experiences that keep millions of users safe every day.
• Facilitate co-creation workshops with Product Management and Engineering to frame opportunities and shape what's worth building.
• Mentor senior designers by guiding them on their projects and supporting their growth and career development.
• Present ideas and concepts to adjacent teams and senior leadership to drive alignment and influence product decisions.
• Advocate and encourage thoughtful use of AI for researching, brainstorming, iterating on potential solutions, prototyping, and collaborating with team members.

What we are looking for

• You have experience leading cross-discipline teams and see design as a partner with PM and Engineering in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes.
• You move easily between big-picture thinking and detail, and create clarity in ambiguity for your team and partners, not just yourself.
• You have the heart of a teacher and can help mentor and train people.
• You are a thought leader, undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while also delivering practical designs.
• You are passionate about crafting and sharing product and design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive user experiences.
• You work AI into your design process - building tools and reusable prompts - and you vet its output for accuracy, design system fit, and usability before it ships.
• You keep user goals at the heart of your solutions, building and sharing empathy to deeply understand people's needs, while balancing business objectives and engineering considerations.
• You are comfortable owning all stages of design within a given product area.
• You showcase storytelling skills to communicate your design ideas to a variety of stakeholders.
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (generative and evaluative research, discovery, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, etc.)
• 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 or UX Designer.
• Proficient in Figma or similar design tools.
• At least a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• A digital portfolio showing depth across a variety of projects, including work that shipped and was used in real products. (Portfolio link required when applying.)
• 7+ years of experience as Product Designer

This person must attend in person orientation the first week of employment in either San Francisco or Chicago.

This person must go into the office 2 days a week.

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, 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, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $156,000 — $215,000 USD

The Okta Experience

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• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

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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