Director, Okta Threat Intelligence

Okta•Chicago, WA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Okta is the World’s Identity Company. Okta’s workforce and customer identity platforms are trusted to secure access to resources for workforce users, partners and end customers. As a trusted supplier to some of the world’s most critical organizations, Okta is uniquely positioned to understand the threat environment. Okta Threat Intelligence is the capability within Okta that delivers timely insights to customers that are both highly relevant and actionable, and that contribute to public conversations about identity-based attacks. Our research reinforces customer confidence in Okta’s best-in-class security capabilities. We are looking for a highly motivated individual contributor to work at the intersection of identity-based attacks and agentic AI. The successful candidate requires strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as cyber domain knowledge.

Requirements

A degree in a relevant field would be beneficial but is not strictly required. We value real-world experience and demonstrable skills and influence in the cyber domain
Evidence of strong written communication and presentation skills
Evidence of strong data analysis and scripting skills (predominantly using SQL and Python)
Demonstrable use of AI workflows or agents to accelerate your research and analysis
Ability to handle sensitive information with a high degree of integrity and discretion

Responsibilities

Gather intelligence requirements from multiple stakeholders
Collaborate with product engineering and security teams to anonymize, aggregate and derive threat-related insights from platform data
Identify and research emerging or novel identity-based threats in order to produce actionable intelligence for customers and the broader community
Coordinate the distribution of finished intelligence, seeking new and creative ways of making our insights more accessible and actionable for customers and partners
Brief Okta’s strategic customers about the threat environment, and handle inbound inquiries where required
Measure the impact of intelligence and analysis products on customer adoption and secure configuration