At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the evolution of Okta's UI platform and enhance user experiences.
- Company: Join a pioneering tech company focused on securing identities in the AI era.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for career growth and global impact.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of user experience at scale.
- Qualifications: 5-8 years in product management with a focus on SaaS platforms.
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.
Role and Team Context
The Senior Product Manager for the UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a cornerstone for Okta's global user experience infrastructure. Joining the Product Platform group, you will own the foundational architecture that ensures every Okta product is elegant, scalable, and performant. Your role extends across owning the UI framework, design systems, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility (WCAG) standards, you provide the critical infrastructure that enables a cohesive, high-quality experience for Okta Workforce Identity products.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Product Vision: Define and champion the technical evolution of the Okta UI framework. Ensure the platform serves as a single source of truth for core administrative experiences across Okta products.
- Platform Roadmap Ownership: Prioritize and execute a complex roadmap across design systems, globalization, and accessibility. You will balance the needs of multiple product lines to ensure a unified developer and end-user experience.
- Strategic Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with global engineering, design, and research teams to deliver infrastructure that supports Okta’s massive scale.
- Ecosystem Synthesis: Engage with global customers and internal stakeholders to synthesize complex requirements into broad-value features that support a diverse, international ecosystem.
- Data-Driven Developer Experience: Leverage product data to optimize the developer experience for internal teams using the UI platform, defining and analyzing metrics that measure the performance and adoption of platform initiatives.
- North America Based Execution: Lead the execution of the roadmap in direct partnership with development scrum teams (Engineering, UX, and Product) to deliver high-quality, resilient features.
Required Qualifications
- 5-8+ years of Product Management experience specifically within enterprise-scale SaaS platforms or core software infrastructure.
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical experience that enables you to rationalize and influence complex architectural decisions.
- Proven ability to produce solid, actionable plans from incomplete, conflicting, or highly ambiguous inputs.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a track record of successfully collaborating across global functions and time zones.
- Demonstrated business results from platform capabilities or products you have shipped at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience managing design systems, UI frameworks, or core software platforms.
- Deep familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM), digital security protocols, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Proven expertise in managing localization/globalization at scale and ensuring compliance with WCAG accessibility standards.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and agile development methodologies.
- Advanced degree in a technical field or an MBA.
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $146,000 CAD - $200,000 CAD.
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.
Senior Product Manager – UI Platform in Toronto employer: Okta
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