Staff Product Designer – UI Platform

About the role

The Staff Product Designer – UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a foundational design lead for Okta's global user experience infrastructure. Joining the Product Platform group, you will act as a resident expert and strategic thought partner, shaping the horizontal design patterns, design architecture, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility standards (WCAG) that power every Okta Workforce Identity product. You will partner directly with cross-functional UI Platform leads to drive platform-level initiatives, harmonizing user experience (UX) and developer experience (DevEx) across our engineering and product organizations. You will also collaborate closely with the Design Systems team, acting as a bridge between the system and feature teams applying it to our product.

Responsibilities

• UI & system leadership: In partnership with the Design Systems team, serve as a UI platform and design system expert, identifying, creating, documenting, and evangelizing scalable, accessible (WCAG), and localized patterns to resolve dependencies across products.
• Strategic partnership: Partner with cross-functional UI Platform leads to align vision with design strategy, co-owning the roadmap to balance features, tech debt, quality, and adoption.
• Raise the craft: Enable Okta Research and Development teams through clear alignment and documentation. Improve org-wide processes and mentor designers to promote craft excellence, candid feedback, and growth.
• Data informed decision making: Leverage data and AI insights to inform clear, platform-level design decisions and streamline governance.

Qualifications

• Proficient in AI workflows and how to apply them to the product design process, with opinions about where AI tools help and where they fall short.
• Passionate about helping customers solve real problems and upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and quality user experiences.
• Relish effective teamwork and are a key contributor to building a healthy team.
• Bring a systems-thinking lens and can effectively identify elegant, extensible solutions.
• Excellent craft with attention to detail to ensure high-quality experiences, while providing design feedback and mentorship to fellow designers.
• Learning mindset, able to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity, helping the team drive toward clarity.
• See design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a given product area.
• Strong communication skills; can distill complex concepts into simple, easy-to-understand narratives while advocating for consistent, high-quality design based on sound rationale.
• Portfolio demonstrating work on and leadership of complex, challenging projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design) across large, horizontal scopes and groups, with preference for large-scale enterprise and SaaS products.
• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer.
• Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and/or similar design tools.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• 10+ years of experience as a Product Designer.

Pay

Annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $156,000 – $214,000 USD. Actual base salary depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. Okta also offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
• Immersive, in-person onboarding experience
• Global community spanning over 20 offices worldwide

Schedule

• Hybrid: must go into local office 2 days per week.
• Must attend in-person orientation the first week of employment at either the San Francisco or Chicago office.

Application requires a link to your portfolio with password (if protected). Priority review of design craft and examples of work in code.