Senior Product Designer

Company: Okta, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Get to know Okta

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.We are looking for a talented Senior Product Designer who can help shape Okta's expansive product portfolio by bringing exceptional craft and fresh perspective to the world of identity and security.Finer printYou will join a distributed and diverse team of designers and researchers supported by leadership who work collaboratively to deliver delightful solutions to complex identity problems. As a centralized design team we have a high degree of autonomy and ownership towards the outcomes we drive for our customers. We also work closely with our Product Management and Engineering counterparts to ensure our solutions are not only user-centric but also technically feasible and aligned with business needs. Together, we collaborate to define problems, explore innovative solutions and deliver seamless experiences that enhance security and usability for our customers.What you will do

• Drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy for your team ensuring a meaningful impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
• Bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and connect the dots between user insights and business goals to create experiences that keep millions of customers safe every day.
• Drive impact by framing problems and exploring solutions in collaboration with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, and data science to deliver best in class experiences. You will have the opportunity to lead through influence.
• Design end-to-end flows that involve multiple personas - IT Admin, Security admins, End-user - and consider complex use cases that span the Okta portfolio ensuring that every user of Okta can do their work efficiently while staying secure.
• Perfect the details to design scalable and usable design patterns that drive a lasting impact, ensuring they not only meet a high bar for design quality and efficiency but also enhance efficiency and consistency across the product.
• Regularly present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership to drive alignment, showcase design impact and influence key product decisions.What we are looking for
  • You easily move between big picture thinking and being detail-oriented.
  • You keep user goals at the heart of your solution and can also balance business objectives and engineering considerations.
  • You thrive in ambiguous environments and know when to lead versus when to lean on your team members.
  • You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
  • You are someone who sees design as a partner with PM and Engineering in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes
  • You are comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area.
  • You are passionate about upholding design UX principles
  • You showcase story telling skills to communicate your design ideas to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (generative and evaluative research, discovery, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, etc.)
  • You share our values , and work in accordance with those valuesQualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a product designer.
    • Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and/or similar design tools.
    • 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer.#LI-MMThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:Get to know Okta
      
      Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
      
      At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
      
      Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.We are looking for a talented Senior Product Designer who can help shape Okta's expansive product portfolio by bringing exceptional craft and fresh perspective to the world of identity and security.Finer printYou will join a distributed and diverse team of designers and researchers supported by leadership who work collaboratively to deliver delightful solutions to complex identity problems. As a centralized design team we have a high degree of autonomy and ownership towards the outcomes we drive for our customers. We also work closely with our Product Management and Engineering counterparts to ensure our solutions are not only user-centric but also technically feasible and aligned with business needs. Together, we collaborate to define problems, explore innovative solutions and deliver seamless experiences that enhance security and usability for our customers.What you will do
      • Drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy for your team ensuring a meaningful impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
      • Bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation and connect the dots between user insights and business goals to create experiences that keep millions of customers safe every day.
      • Drive impact by framing problems and exploring solutions in collaboration with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, and data science to deliver best in class experiences. You will have the opportunity to lead through influence.
      • Design end-to-end flows that involve multiple personas - IT Admin, Security admins, End-user - and consider complex use cases that span the Okta portfolio ensuring that every user of Okta can do their work efficiently while staying secure.
      • Perfect the details to design scalable and usable design patterns that drive a lasting impact, ensuring they not only meet a high bar for design quality and efficiency but also enhance efficiency and consistency across the product.
      • Regularly present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership to drive alignment, showcase design impact and influence key product decisions.What we are looking for
        • You easily move between big picture thinking and being detail-oriented.
        • You keep user goals at the heart of your solution and can also balance business objectives and engineering considerations.
        • You thrive in ambiguous environments and know when to lead versus when to lean on your team members.
        • You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
        • You are someone who sees design as a partner with PM and Engineering in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes
        • You are comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area.
        • You are passionate about upholding design UX principles
        • You showcase story telling skills to communicate your design ideas to a variety of stakeholders.
        • Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (generative and evaluative research, discovery, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, etc.)
        • You share our values , and work in accordance with those valuesQualifications
          • Bachelor's degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a product designer.
          • Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and/or similar design tools.
          • 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer.#LI-Remote#LI-MMThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $147,000 - $221,000 USDBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us .
            The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between: $131,000 - $197,000 USDWhat you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
            • Amazing Benefits
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            • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at OktaOkta 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. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/ .
              
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