Principal Product Manager, IGA - Okta

The Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a- Service solutions through identifying and resolving risks to the employees, product, and most importantly, our customers. With the ever-increasing pace of cloud application adoption, companies are struggling to find ways to accurately assess risk and act at the speed of their business.

We are looking for a self-starter, customer obsessed, curious, and empathetic product manager who enjoys discovering the customer requirements, innovating on their behalf, and developing experiences that raise the bar for security. 

You will be instrumental in enabling Okta to be our first and best customer by implementing Okta capabilities and partnering closely with Okta Product teams to enhance our offerings. This position is ideal for someone who has had an engineering and architectural background within IGA. This role is pivotal in leading the implementation and adoption of our IGA platform, ensuring secure and efficient access to company systems, data, and applications.

This position has a high level of visibility, so you will need to be able to communicate clearly and compellingly at all levels of the company.

A day in the life of this Product Manager

On a daily basis, you'll have a chance to work with everyone who makes IGA successful, including senior leadership, engineers and more. You will serve as the primary point of contact for IGA-related enquiries and meet with internal customers to understand our core strengths and weaknesses. You will synthesize that feedback and other industry knowledge, with business and service data, to create strategies and test hypotheses. As someone central to the success of Okta’s IGA, people will look to you on a regular basis to solve problems and help the broader customer base. To develop that expertise, you'll constantly be looking to learn by reaching out to other experts within Okta. 

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine the product strategy and long term roadmap for IGA, aligning with Okta’s business and security objectives.
• Prepare for and lead planning activities, collaborate with engineering teams to define and document user stories and use-cases to guide and prioritize features for IGA.
• Act as the primary liaison between the business and engineering teams to define and communicate product requirements, including features, user experience, and technical specifications, to engineering teams.
• Work closely in a hands-on style with the engineering team, addressing daily prioritization needs and providing real-time feedback.
• Define and create metric based reports and KPIs to provide leadership visibility on scope, coverage and capacity.
• Partner with your peers in Security, Product Management and Development, Business Technology and Engineering to deliver work class IGA solutions to secure the business and enable Okta’s workforce.
• Encourage automation opportunities to reduce manual tasks for support teams and enable the business to accomplish repeatable IGA requests via self service.
• Lead the life cycle of business roles that includes a deep understanding of birthright, Policy Based Access (PBAC) and Attribute Based Access (ABAC) models while maintaining Separation of Duty (SOD).
• Leverage product data to continually get smarter about how to improve our existing products, and work across the business to drive adoption and success
• Track industry trends and think strategically to develop solutions that are differentiated from the competition
• Be the subject matter expert for your product area and help enable your counterparts in the core product, Marketing, and tech partnerships teams.

Required:

• 5+ years Product Management experience with a minimum of 3 years Product Management experience in IGA.
• Strong experience in IGA.
• Deep knowledge of IAM concepts, solutions and principles.
• Strong communication (presentation, verbal and written) and collaboration skills, you possess the ability and confidence to deliver messages to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to deliver timely and flawless execution on time and on budget with complex projects within an expedited timeline with high executive visibility.
• You are able to independently operate and take a proactive approach to your projects.
• Experience in working collaboratively with global cross functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to execute a vision and strategy.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. You can produce solid action plans from often incomplete, conflicting or ambiguous inputs.
• Passion for Okta’s huge opportunity and growth potential, and general thirst for learning with an ability to go broad and deep across business and technical contexts.
• Knowledge and experience of other IGA offerings in the market.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with IGA concepts and deep understanding of one or more of the following vendor IGA products: Sailpoint and/or Saviynt.
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services, integration considerations surfaced in the user experience in particular
• Experience with creating requirements for security focused customers

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