Sr. Training and Knowledge Management Manager (Legal team)

About the role

The Sr. Training & Knowledge Management Manager plays a key role in supporting the Legal team at Okta, a leading provider of identity for the enterprise. This role involves developing and executing a multi-year strategic roadmap for the Legal team’s Knowledge Management and Training program, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals. The candidate will also partner across the organization to establish a unified, best-in-class approach for company-wide legal training topics, design and deliver engaging on-demand content and live training sessions, and optimize legal knowledge content for seamless ingestion by AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Strategize & Lead: Develop, champion, and execute a multi-year strategic roadmap for the Legal team’s Knowledge Management and Training program, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Unify: Partner across the organization (Sales Enablement, Okta University, and Learning & Development) to establish a unified, best-in-class approach for company-wide legal training topics.
• Create & Deliver: Design, host, and produce engaging on-demand content and live training sessions for the Legal team and company-wide, including designing a scalable onboarding program for new Legal team hires.
• Leverage broad legal knowledge and experience to actively create and build high-quality, relevant legal team content, ensuring it is both substantively sound and easy to consume.
• Strategically build and optimize legal knowledge content for seamless ingestion by AI systems, ensuring the information is structured to effectively train, govern, and power internal AI models and bots for various use cases.
• Establish standards for knowledge capture, lifecycle management, and governance, leverage self-service technologies (e.g. AI-driven search, workflow automation, etc.) to maintain the knowledge base, dramatically reduce redundant inquiries, and enable employees to self-serve relevant information.
• Mentor & Guide: Provide strategic oversight and professional guidance to the Training & Knowledge Management Specialist, driving departmental consistency and fostering career growth.
• Measure & Optimize: Define and report on sophisticated metrics (e.g. ROI, adoption rates, knowledge gaps, etc.) to the Director of Legal Operations to continually measure program effectiveness and inform future strategy.
• Drive Collaboration: Proactively manage relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure all legal learning and knowledge management needs are anticipated and addressed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Learning and Development, Knowledge Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, with at least 7 years focused on Training and Knowledge Management.
• Experience supporting an in-house Legal department or paralegal experience required.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of core legal concepts and terminology to drive content creation and ensure content accuracy and relevance.
• Demonstrated expertise in building, designing, and deploying engaging content, including wikis, e-learning courses, training curricula, and professional presentations.
• Experience optimizing content for use by a variety of systems, including AI models and search engines.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and presentation skills; a proactive and influential leadership style is a must.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across a global enterprise.
• Advanced proficiency with modern knowledge management and training tools such as Confluence, Highspot, WalkMe, Articulate, Zoom, PowerPoint, Google Slides, and workflow automation platforms (e.g. TAP).
• Deep understanding and application of adult learning concepts, theories, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive consensus, and lead complex change management initiatives.
• Ability to set clear goals, define performance metrics, and consistently drive accountability for results.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional projects.
• Deep understanding of how a successful training and knowledge management program, designed for how modern AI tools process and serve up information, can directly impact a company's bottom line.

Skills

• Strong project management and strategic planning skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with AI and machine learning.
• Knowledge of legal concepts and terminology.
• Proficiency in knowledge management and training tools.

Benefits

At Okta, we offer a competitive compensation package, including a range of benefits such as health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, a flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave). For more information on our Total Rewards program, please visit here.

Pay

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 $204,000—$281,000 USD.

Schedule

Full-time position.

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