Manager of Product Design (Okta Research & Development)

Join Okta, a leading identity management company, as a Product Design Manager. In this role, you will lead and support our product design team, ensuring a valuable and user-friendly experience for our Workforce Identity Cloud customers. You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams, drive UX strategy and execution, and help shape team-wide practices and processes. This position offers work-from-home opportunities, health and wellness benefits, financial benefits, and more.

• Lead, grow, and support members of the product design team, ensuring high-quality user experiences.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to prioritize and drive user experience strategy.
• Establish and maintain a climate in which team members can do their best work, cultivating design excellence.

• You have a collaborative team spirit with great communication skills
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests
• You have the heart of a teacher and can help coach and train people. You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs
• You are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and well-designed user experiences
• You are able to navigate ambiguity and envision complex UX ecosystems, rallying around a common vision while providing space for team-led innovation
• You possess a clear vision of the future of user experience and have the courage to lead and pursue forward-thinking design
• You have experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders
• You have a clear philosophy about how to successfully manage design teams
• You are experienced in understanding user and customer needs and can translate those into experiences that provide meaningful value for customers and the business
• You advocate for design and experience quality across your team
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and / or similar design tools
• Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript
• Degree in related field or relevant work experience as a UX designer/manager
• Must be able to come into the Toronto office 2 days a week
• Must attend in person orientation in the Toronto office on the first Tuesday of employment
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging technical projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design). As well, your portfolio will showcase your values and philosophies with regard to design management, leadership, and UX strategy