Description
As a Product Architect, AI at Auth0, an Okta company, you will help define how Auth0 and Okta lead the market in agentic identity, secure AI application development, and standards-based access for agents.
You will work across Product, Engineering, Security, Developer Relations, Design, Go-to-Market, and our customer community to shape the technical and product direction for AI-native identity capabilities.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Defining and evolving Auth0's strategy for building, operating, and securing AI agents and agentic applications.
- Shaping the product and technical strategy for agentic identity, including how agents authenticate, receive delegated authority, access resources, establish trust, and maintain auditable boundaries.
- Defining approaches for securely exposing protected resources to authorized agents.
- Partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to turn strategic opportunities into clear product bets, architectural principles, product requirements, and durable platform capabilities.
- Helping design and implement core identity capabilities that enable secure agent-to-resource and agent-to-agent interactions.
- Developing an informed perspective on emerging technologies and standards.
- Identifying important industry shifts early, assessing their implications for customers and the identity ecosystem, and communicating a clear point of view internally and externally.
- Working directly with strategic customers to understand their AI and identity architectures, uncover unmet needs, validate product direction, and help them build securely.
- Collaborating with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Trust teams to ensure that AI-related identity capabilities are secure, responsible, compliant, and usable in real-world enterprise environments.
- Representing Auth0 and Okta in the developer and identity communities through technical content, speaking engagements, customer conversations, standards participation, and open-source engagement.
- Building prototypes, reference implementations, and technical demonstrations using technologies such as Node.js, React, Python, and Go.
- Partnering with Developer Relations and Go-to-Market teams to make complex identity and AI concepts approachable for developers, architects, customers, and partners.
- Raising the technical bar across the organization by mentoring others, documenting architectural patterns, and creating clarity in an evolving technical landscape.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Significant experience in product architecture, technical product management, software architecture, platform engineering, developer platforms, or a similarly customer- and technology-facing leadership role.
- Experience building and shipping AI-powered applications, agentic systems, developer tools, or platforms used by developers to build them.
- Deep expertise in modern identity and authorization standards, especially OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, workload identity, token exchange, delegated authorization, API authorization, and related identity protocols.
- A strong understanding of how to securely design access to APIs, tools, data, and services in distributed systems.
- Practical familiarity with the emerging agent ecosystem, including MCP, agent-to-agent interactions, tool invocation, AI application architectures, and the evolving questions around agent identity, authorization, delegation, consent, intent, and auditability.
- Demonstrated ability to develop a strategy in ambiguous, quickly evolving markets and turn it into concrete product and technical decisions.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers, developers, and partners to solve complex technical problems and influence product direction.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain deeply technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- A strong external presence in relevant technical communities through speaking, standards work, open-source contributions, technical writing, or other visible contributions.
- Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor across organizational boundaries, influencing without direct authority and driving alignment among diverse stakeholders.
- Strong software development skills and comfort writing code in one or more of Node.js/TypeScript, React, Python, or Go.
As a Full-Time Okta employee, you can look forward to amazing benefits, making social impact, developing talent and fostering connection, promoting work-life flexibility and inclusivity.
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