Product Management Director, Okta Identity Threat Detection and Response Products

We are seeking a Director, Okta Identity Threat Detection and Response Products, a managerial Director-level role, to drive the evolution of Okta’s cutting-edge identity security offerings.

This position requires a strong technical foundation, keen product intuition, cybersecurity knowledge, and exceptional collaboration skills to shape the future of our strategic security products.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Roadmap and Vision

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for Okta Identity Security functionality to ensure Okta's continued leadership in the security space.
• Evangelize your vision to engineering teams, the broader product organisation, and customers.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive roadmap, prioritising features that enhance both customer security posture and administrative ease of use.
• Analyse and leverage data to inform product and roadmap decisions, ensuring data-driven strategic choices.

Product Delivery and Execution

• Ensure the timely and within-budget delivery of the Okta Identity Security product roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, engineering, and design to specify experiences that are platform-first and delight customers at scale.
• Work with scrum teams and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to deliver features on time that address key security use cases.
• Rigorously prioritise across multiple product investment areas within the security domain.
• Partner with the data team to track product usage metrics, specifically tying them to improved security outcomes and business success.

Customer Engagement and Requirements Gathering

• Work with engineering, other product managers, and customers to capture detailed security requirements and document user stories and use cases.
• Engage with customers to deeply understand their challenges related to identity-centric threats, access control, and network security.
• Ensure that beta customer feedback is incorporated into product iterations. Maintain close relationships with customers during beta programs to integrate their insights effectively.
• Collaborate with technical marketing and sales to understand the competitive landscape for identity security and Okta’s position within it.
• Partner with product marketing to support the creation of compelling messaging and content, and define the go-to-market strategy for existing and new security offerings.
• Inform current and future pricing and packaging changes for Okta Identity Security products based on your subject matter expertise.

Own the Product

• Maintain a customer-success-focused mindset, actively working to unblock sales and assist customers with security-related issues.
• Responsible for supporting the field on critical requests and customer security needs.
• Drive the development of world-class identity security products and platform capabilities.
• Lead Okta Identity Security quarterly business reviews and collaborate with the go-to-market team to expand the customer pipeline from roadmap to packaging.
• Leverage your domain expertise to identify new product opportunities for Okta Identity Security to expand our portfolio.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• Proven track record of demonstrating strategic vision and product design for security-focused products.
• Experience creating new product offerings, including Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, pricing, product naming, legal contracts, and New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Experience with defining and driving Threat Protection, Threat Intelligence, SaaS Security and Network Security as a product suite.
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise security products or services.
• Thirst for learning: able to go broad and deep across business and technical security contexts.
• Track record of owning and delivering on large strategic projects – you can see the big picture, but deliver on the details.
• Strong technical background that allows you to influence technical design and investment decisions, particularly in security architectures.
• Ability to produce solid action plans from often incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous security inputs.
• Strong track record of influencing teams and operating effectively as a player-coach.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and business audiences, especially when discussing complex security concepts.
• Strong leadership skills and executive presence.
• Passion for Okta’s immense opportunity and growth potential in the identity security market.
• 8+ years product management experience.
• Experience interviewing and selecting candidates.
• Mentoring early-in-career product managers.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree in a technical or business field.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise security products and services, including cybersecurity frameworks and best practices.
• Extensive knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) and its intersection with security.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and threat detection standards.
• Experience with developing user flows and enabling customisable security experiences.
• Experience creating and managing multi-tenant SaaS security software products.