# Product Management Director, Okta Identity Threat Detection and Response Products **Company**: Okta **Location**: San Francisco, California **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $258,000-$355,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7648611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_39ecb54b-596 ## Description 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. ## Skills ### Required - Strategic vision - Product design - Security-focused products - Threat Protection - Threat Intelligence - SaaS Security - Network Security - Product management lifecycle - Enterprise security products - Technical security contexts - Project delivery - Team influencing - Communication skills - Leadership skills ### Nice to have - Advanced degree - Cybersecurity frameworks - Identity and access management - Authentication - Authorization - Threat detection standards - User flows - Customisable security experiences - Multi-tenant SaaS security software products --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7648611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)