Senior Product Manager - Policies

Okta•Washington, DC

11d•$169,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Product Manager focusing on Policies at Okta. The position involves owning the product strategy and execution for Okta's authentication policy roadmap. The Policies team is responsible for how Okta evaluates risk and context to determine authentication decisions for users, machines, or agentic identities. This includes managing Application Sign-On Policy, Global Session Policy, Okta Account Management Policy (OAMP), and Device Signal Collection Policy, as well as the underlying Policy Framework, Policy API, and Auth Pipeline. Policies are fundamental to the Okta product portfolio, acting as the decision layer for authentication events and influencing the security experience for end-users. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, design, other product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure strategic evolution of policy capabilities, including rollout and management at scale (change management / identity operations).

Requirements

6+ 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 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 policy engines, rules-based decisioning systems, or risk-scoring products
Experience with change management tooling, feature flagging, or safe-rollout systems at scale
Experience with non-human identity or agentic identity use cases as they relate to authentication policy

Responsibilities

Own roadmap and prioritization for your product area, balancing customer requests, platform needs, and market/strategic differentiation
Collaborate with design and engineering to define, scope, and ship policies that have best-in-class user experience while meeting the security needs of Okta customers
Drive product direction for the Policy Framework, Policy API, and Auth Pipeline that underpin every policy evaluation across Okta
Define how policy changes are managed operationally — versioning, staged rollout, auditability, and rollback — as part of a broader change management and identity operations strategy
Work directly with customers, Solutions Engineering, Support, and other product teams to understand policy 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 successful launch and adoption of policy-related experiences
Serve as the subject matter expert, representing Policies in customer escalations, executive briefings, and enterprise prospect evaluations, as well as partnerships with Marketing and GTM counterparts
Track industry trends in adaptive authentication, risk-based access, and session security to develop solutions differentiated from the competition