Okta’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) functionality is a best-of-breed, world-class set of strong products built on a philosophy of Zero Trust. We are looking for a Group Product Manager with a strong technical background, good business sense and ability to partner closely with engineering, user experience, and product marketing teams to deliver on a portfolio of product and platform experiences for Enterprise Authentication. 

This portfolio includes:

• Okta’s Enterprise Authentication business and integrations which includes the platform for enterprise authenticators
• Okta’s Federal roadmap for integrations with strong authenticators for customers in the government sector

Your primary responsibilities in these areas will include:

 - Driving the roadmap for Enterprise Authentication: you will own the product strategy and roadmap for our Enterprise Authentication integrations, which cover first- and third-party authenticators that are used for Workforce Identity use cases. Examples of these integrations are Okta Verify, WebAuthn/ FIDO2 authenticators, custom TOTP integrations and so on.    

- Owning the authentication roadmap for Federal customers to create a world-class, differentiated offering and working in conjunction with our federal sales team to make our government customers successful

- In both areas, understanding key customer requirements, market trends and integration use cases for access management and MFA will be key. Our MFA business is dependent on Okta integration with existing technologies and customer environments. As the product lead for the Enterprise Authentication, you’ll need to deeply understand customer environments, technologies, and use cases for strong authentication.

- Collaborate with enablement and field teams to drive success in our MFA business: as the subject matter expert for our MFA business, you need to coordinate across various team’s roadmaps to ensure we’re delivering on our core MFA business.

- Executing: You live and breathe delivery. You collaborate with architecture, engineering and UX to design from a platform-centric perspective and ship features that delight customers and put us ahead of the competition. You work across mobile and desktop surface areas to create experiences that customers love.

 Job duties and Job Responsibilities:

Roadmap and Vision

• Set product strategy and direction for the Enterprise Authentication area
• Define the execution roadmaps for Enterprise Authentication
• Evangelize your vision to the engineering team, sales team, and customers

Product Delivery and Execution

• Collaborate with architecture, engineering and design to spec experiences that are platform-first and aim to delight customers at scale
• Work with your scrum teams to deliver features on-time, on-target that unlock key use cases
• Prioritize rigorously across a number of product investment areas
• Not afraid to get into the weeds to define features and experiences

Customer Engagement and Requirements Gathering

• Engage with customers to deeply understand their challenges with MFA with respect to broad enterprise use cases
• Understand challenges to deployment and usability around strong authentication solutions
• Stay close to customers during beta programs and ensure that feedback is incorporated into the product 
• Work with technical marketing and sales to deeply understand the competitor landscape
• Keep your finger on the pulse of market changes and understand where trends are heading 
• Collaborate with product marketing to support creation of messaging and content, and define the go-to-market plan for existing and new offerings
• Inform pricing and packaging changes based on your subject matter expertise
• Collaborate on content creation to launch new features

Own the Product

• Customer success focused thinking: always working to unblock sales and help customers through issues
• Responsive to supporting the field on critical asks and customer needs
• Build a world class MFA product

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services, including ownership of platform services
• Excellent communication skills (presentation, verbal and written)
• Strong leadership skills and presence
• Track record of successful delivery of company-critical projects
• 7+ years of industry experience. 

Preferred:

• Advanced degree or Master of Business Administration
• Knowledge of enterprise security products and services
• Knowledge in identity or access management
• Knowledge in strong authentication solutions
• Experience with developing multi-tenant SaaS services

Meet the manager:

Grace Wardhana is Senior Director of Product Management for Devices and Zero Trust at Okta.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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