# Director of Engineering, AI Takeoff Team

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Varies by location
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The AI Takeoff Team at Okta creates a rapid feedback loop from customers to product and engineering.

We are seeking a driven, customer-focused engineering leader to accelerate our roadmap delivery.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with top customers and AI Forward Deployed Engineering to rapidly translate customer needs into differentiated AI capabilities and deliver them to production.

- Partner with broader Okta Engineering, Product, and Design to ensure capabilities meet Okta standards for security, reliability, scalability, and quality.

- Build, grow, and mentor a small team of AI Takeoff engineers operating with high autonomy and urgency.

- Serve as a senior technical SME in customer engagements, technical evaluations, and complex sales processes.

- Lead complex customer escalations with a bias toward rapidly identifying root causes and delivering durable solutions.

- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Takeoff engineering roadmap.

Qualifications:

- 8+ years building and shipping identity, security, infrastructure, or developer-focused products in a high-growth organization.

- Proven engineering leadership and team management experience.

- Strong executive communication and influencing skills.

- Proven experience working directly with enterprise customers.

- Deep identity domain expertise.

- Experience operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments.

- Strong product and customer orientation.

- Experience with AI/agentic systems, AI security, or emerging identity patterns is a strong plus.

The annual base salary range for this position varies by location:

- San Francisco Bay area: $275,000-$378,000 USD

- California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $246,000-$337,000 USD

- Canada: $224,000-$308,000 CAD

## Skills

### Required
- identity
- security
- infrastructure
- AI
- engineering leadership

### Nice to have
- AI/agentic systems
- AI security
- emerging identity patterns

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