At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of secure AI identity solutions and collaborate across teams.
- Company: Join Okta, a leader in identity security and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to engage in open-source and community initiatives.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in shaping the future of AI and identity technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in AI systems, product strategy, and hands-on technical skills.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
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.
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 Auth0, an Okta company, we help organizations build secure, seamless customer experiences.
The Opportunity: We are looking for a Product Architect, AI to help define how Auth0 and Okta lead the market in agentic identity, secure AI application development, and standards-based access for agents. This is a senior, highly strategic, and deeply hands-on role. You will work across Product, Engineering, Security, Developer Relations, Design, Go-to-Market, and our customer community to shape the technical and product direction for AI-native identity capabilities.
What you'll be doing:
- Define and evolve Auth0's strategy for building, operating, and securing AI agents and agentic applications.
- Shape the product and technical strategy for agentic identity, including how agents authenticate, receive delegated authority, access resources, establish trust, and maintain auditable boundaries.
- Define approaches for securely exposing protected resources (including APIs, tools, data services, and MCP servers) to authorized agents.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to turn strategic opportunities into clear product bets, architectural principles, product requirements, and durable platform capabilities.
- Help design and, where valuable, implement core identity capabilities that enable secure agent-to-resource and agent-to-agent interactions.
- Develop an informed perspective on emerging technologies and standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent protocols, agentic commerce, AAuth, authorization frameworks, workload identity, and related specifications.
- Identify important industry shifts early, assess their implications for customers and the identity ecosystem, and communicate a clear point of view internally and externally.
- Work directly with strategic customers to understand their AI and identity architectures, uncover unmet needs, validate product direction, and help them build securely.
- Collaborate with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Trust teams to ensure that AI-related identity capabilities are secure, responsible, compliant, and usable in real-world enterprise environments.
- Represent Auth0 and Okta in the developer and identity communities through technical content, speaking engagements, customer conversations, standards participation, and open-source engagement.
- Build prototypes, reference implementations, and technical demonstrations using technologies such as Node.js, React, Python, and Go.
- Partner with Developer Relations and Go-to-Market teams to make complex identity and AI concepts approachable for developers, architects.
Product Architect, AI in Toronto employer: Okta
At Okta, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. As a Datastores Platform Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive environment that encourages professional growth and development. Our commitment to employee well-being is reflected in our comprehensive benefits package and the unique advantage of working in a dynamic cloud-focused location.
