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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.
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Position Description:
The Staff Engineering Technical Program Managers own and drive cross-functional initiatives, serving as the point person for clarifying goals, overseeing execution plans to achieve them, and ensuring alignment and transparency with stakeholders and contributors.
In this role you will own, drive, and oversee security initiatives within the Engineering organization, partnering with key stakeholders in Security, Compliance, and Product Management. You will be a contributor within the Engineering Infrastructure & Security TPM team, focused on efforts to continually advance Okta’s product security. Employing both a strategic and tactical approach is a requirement in this role. You will not only have strong Engineering TPM experience, but also experience implementing security and compliance initiatives within Engineering and Infrastructure in a SaaS and agile environment.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Structure, kick-off, and run security & compliance initiatives within the Engineering organization by clarifying goals, aligning on priorities, enabling and ensuring the execution of deliverables, defining program process flows, and providing continuous transparency.
- Build and maintain alignment across Security and Engineering for keeping a focus on priorities, execution, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Project manage security initiatives within and beyond Engineering, across multiple teams; taking a hands-on and proactive approach to unblock progress, introduce efficiencies, and provide workflow solutions.
- Contribute to the introduction of new processes / workflows in support of our security initiatives, by bringing proposed solutions to the teams and rolling them out in an iterative manner.
- Anticipate and mitigate risks - by having close involvement with teams’ goals and challenges, applying past experience, and keeping in mind the big picture.
- Provide clear and crisp transparency to the status and progress of security initiatives.
- Experience collaborating with and influencing the leadership team in situations without authority and with ambiguity.
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Minimum 7 years of Engineering technical program management experience in a product development environment – kicking off and managing cross-organizational programs
- Minimum 4 years of security related technical project management experience in a SaaS product development environment – working hand-in-hand with Engineers to deliver security and compliance efforts
- Excellent verbal and written communication; experience effectively communicating and presenting to teams located across different locations and people ranging from individual team members to C-level executives.
- Strong leadership skills; able to successfully influence without authority
- Strong technical aptitude/affinity; experience working directly with software, test and/or system engineers
- Self-starter; able to work well in an ambiguous and constantly changing, fast paced environment
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.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
