Product Manger - Federations

Okta•Washington, DC

16h•$142,000 - $219,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As Product Manager, Federations, you own product strategy and execution for our Federations roadmap. The Federations team owns how user, machine, and agentic identities move inbound and outbound of Okta via industry-standard protocols. This includes outbound federations, which span how Okta acts as an identity provider to downstream apps and services (OAuth/OIDC, SAML, API access management), as well as inbound federations, which span how Okta consume identity from external sources (external idPS, social auth, JIT provisioning, claims mapping, and logout). Federations is foundational to the entire Okta product portfolio. You'll work closely with engineering, design, other product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders across Okta's platform to ensure federation capabilities evolve strategically. This role requires being able to deep-dive technically and build protocol fluency, you'll be expected to reason credibly about OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and related specs with engineering, standards teams, and customers.

Requirements

3+ years experience in product management
Experience in identity, security, enterprise-scale, platform, or developer products
Ability to have in-depth technical discussions with engineering teams.
Ability to build working fluency in federation protocols, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, to have credible conversations with engineers and customers
Ability to connect platform-level decisions to Okta's broader business outcomes and market position as a technology leader
Ability to empathize and dig deeper into customer problems and needs before designing solutions
Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable flexing between spec-level detail and executive narrative
Entrepreneurial and ownership mindset - given an ambiguous problem, you decide what matters, decide what to do about it, and drive it forward.
Collaborative by default - you strive to earn trust with customers, cross-functional partners, and stakeholders. Your default is to bring people in early and often to inform a blended, stronger direction.

Nice To Haves

Experience with API access management, non-human identity, or agentic identity use cases
Experience contributing to or engaging with standards bodies (OpenID Foundation, IETF, etc.)

Responsibilities

Own roadmap and prioritization for your product area, balancing standards leadership, security, customer requests, and platform strategy
Collaborate with design and engineering to define, scope, and ship experiences that meet protocol requirements (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2) without compromising security, interoperability, or user experience
Work directly with customers, Solutions Engineering, Support, Standards, and other product teams to understand platform needs and translate them into product requirements
Use AI tools to accelerate spec writing, competitive analysis, and rapid prototyping to drive roadmap alignment and execution
Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including engineering, field teams, tech partnerships, and marketing, to ensure the successful launch and adoption of federations-related experiences
Serve as the subject matter expert, representing Federations in customer escalations, executive briefings, and enterprise prospect evaluations as well as partnerships with Marketing and GTM counterparts
Track industry trends and think strategically to develop solutions that are differentiated from the competition