Product Design Architect

Overview

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace the new era of AI. This role shapes the highest-order design strategy across Okta's full product portfolio. You will lead company-wide discovery efforts and work hand-in-hand with product leadership and executive teams to translate business ambitions into compelling, human-centered product visions. You will establish best practices and raise design fluency across the entire Research & Development organization.

Responsibilities

• Define the design vision, set company-wide standards, and influence high-level strategy alongside executive leadership
• Own the design architecture that connects Principal Product Designers at the Okta-wide level, setting the innovation agenda
• Establish best practices and raise design fluency across the entire Research & Development organization
• Help refine the structural design decisions that product teams build within: the platform-level IA, cross-product navigation models, shared interaction paradigms, and the design governance processes that ensure those standards hold over time
• Work across R&D organizations, partnering with product and engineering leadership to make decisions that have broad, lasting impact on how millions of users navigate, understand, use, and trust Okta's products
• Communicate inspiring, forward-looking visions of the future for Okta and our customers that energize teams and attract talent
• Drive company-wide efforts that improve our ability to scale design solutions for the largest and most complex global customers
• Facilitate strategic sessions with senior leadership and executive teams and serve as an advocate for our customers at the most senior levels
• Influence company strategy and help define Okta's position in the market by contributing design perspective to the highest-level product and business conversations
• Set an example for how we best use AI across to ship high quality designs and evangelize those approaches across Engineering, Product, and Design
• Enable execution across the company by aligning teams around company-level goals and design standards
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the future of AI at Okta
• Actively work to uplevel design fluency across the entire company, not just the Product Design team, so that more of Okta thinks and builds with design quality as a baseline
• Mentor designers at any level; be a standard-bearer for Okta's core values and for industry best practices
• Be an early adopter of new methods in design, including AI-assisted workflows. Form an opinion about evolving design methods and practices, and help the organization adopt those new methods
• Stay deeply attuned to competitor products, UX trends, and emerging technology, and bring those insights into the organization in ways that create competitive advantage

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with a significant portion of that time operating at a senior or principal level across large, complex product portfolios
• Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI-powered design tools and plugins within your workflow
• Possess at least a basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React

Fresher Print

This role shapes the highest-order design strategy across Okta's full product portfolio. You will lead company-wide discovery efforts and work hand-in-hand with product leadership and executive teams to translate business ambitions into compelling, human-centered product visions. You will establish best practices and raise design fluency across the entire Research & Development organization.

Annual Base Salary Range

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between $216,000 USD - $297,000 USD.