Description
We are looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our team at Okta. As a Staff Product Designer, you will work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft and expertise on a range of products and services. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we're researching and investing in.
Some of your work will be functional, practical user experience design, where you will help our design team drive cohesive user experience across Okta's portfolio of products. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organisation to flesh out, frame, and help prioritise solutions in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space.
As a designer, your focus will be on helping us build a secure, trusted, and unified platform with deep integrations. In this role, you have the opportunity to:
- Lead a holistic, human-centred approach to design.
- Guide and oversee the UX strategy alongside cross-functional partners, collaborating to take products from concept to launch and define the long-term strategy for your product area.
- Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering, and Design to define opportunities within our products to solve valuable customer problems.
- Craft user-centred artefacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams contributing to Workforce Identity Management around the broader user experience.
- Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences across different user scenarios.
- Inspire teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative process and fail-forward mentality to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products.
- Advocate, mentor, and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams and new designers alike; partnering with UX team members to uphold our principles and standards.
- Mentor junior designers and contribute toward team-level and design practice and process improvements.
- Work with Design Leadership to define and drive the frameworks, contracts, and standards for others to be able to then build on top of and add value to, ensuring the quality of UX delivery.
- Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; collaborating with user researchers to research and synthesise user needs to help conceive, define, test, and evolve solutions for our users across a range of mediums and experiences; Advocate for users and deliver user and customer outcomes in a dynamic work environment.
- Help product designers create success metrics to illustrate a clear understanding of how their designs impact customers.
- Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership; working to distill complex technical problems into clear, conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions.
- Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends, including the practical application of AI in the design process; Perform competitive and comparative analysis to understand existing patterns.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer, with a portfolio showcasing shipped B2B or enterprise products.
- Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
- Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or similar design tools.
- Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
- Can provide a digital portfolio that showcases solid skills across a variety of projects, including work that has been seen and used successfully in actual products.