Vice President, Product Management

Okta • San Francisco, CA

7d • Remote

About The Position

Okta is seeking a Vice President of Product Management for Access Management. Access Management sits at the very core of our service and spans a broad technology scope, including Authentication Protocols, Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Login Experience, Device Access, and Customer Identity. The Access Management team builds the experience that powers billions of monthly logins through Okta’s thousands of customers.
In a hyper-growth environment you will support the Access Management product management team in making roadmap prioritization decisions based on in-depth understanding of customer needs, market trends and the competitive landscape. You will partner with leaders across other product management teams, design, program management, engineering, finance and marketing to execute on the vision of providing secure access to everyone but not just anyone.
You will take an active role in identifying areas and levels of investment needed to deliver on company goals and continuously analyze build/license/buy opportunities across the Access Management portfolio.
You will leverage data and experience to make lots of decisions every day to help unblock teams, and you will not hesitate to make bold recommendations to senior company leadership.
This role can be based from a home office anywhere in the US or Canada.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technology leadership (directly managing people) focused on SaaS/IaaS/PaaS primarily in a space where developers are an important buyer of the product and at least 8 years of product management experience.
• Deep expertise and understanding of access management products and technologies
• Experience with agile software development, balanced with enterprise software customer needs
• Experience in building and maintaining a long-term roadmap in an environment of constant change
• Experience with developer acceleration frameworks such as SDKs, Quickstarts, and Reference implementations.
• Solid business foundation, having built business cases and defined pricing models
• Experience partnering with go-to-market teams in launching software products
• Proven ability to lead a diverse team of product managers at various levels of seniority
• Previous experience leading documentation and/or developer experience teams.
• Strong ability to influence and work cross-functionally
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Some travel will be required (US and International)

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in a fast-paced and high-growth company is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Creating effective product requirements for iterative customer value release
• Publishing and communicating product vision and roadmap
• Work very closely with Access Management engineering leadership
• Support the product management team on engaging with developers at all stages, from hobbyists to large enterprises, to continuously deliver value and assess priorities
• Work collaboratively with product designers and researchers to increase market awareness
• Roadmap sourcing strategy: Build x Buy x Partner
• Monitoring business impact: ROI, Pricing, Margins
• Partnering with go-to-market on Product Launches
• Continuously monitor team structure and investment levels, providing recommendations for optimizations
• Partner in a leading role with Program Management and Engineering leadership in quarterly and yearly planning

Benefits

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
• Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.
• Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed