Director, Product Management - Platform & Shared Services

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the multi-year product strategy for Okta’s foundational platform suite.
• Translate company vision into an execution-focused roadmap for the Platform portfolio.
• Partner with the CPO, CTO, architectural leadership, and cross-functional executives to align platform investments with corporate strategy.
• Take accountability for business results, platform feature launches, and global resilience and uptime SLAs.
• Mediate resource allocation across architectural scaling, technical debt, and customer-facing initiatives.
• Drive cross-product convergence across:
  • Multi-Product Experiences, including unified policy, AI assistants, universal search, admin dashboard, and platform RBAC.
  • Okta Workflows orchestration and integration ecosystem.
  • Universal Directory performance and reliability.
  • Okta Aerial multi-organization governance.
  • UI Platform design systems and frontend architecture.
  • Licensing and Metering billing, consumption tracking, feature flags, and entitlements.
  • Backup and Recovery, including disaster recovery, configuration backups, and point-in-time restore.
• Build, retain, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers.
• Hire, coach, and address performance gaps while maintaining high execution standards.
• Serve as executive champion for platform strategy with CISOs, CIOs, enterprise accounts, and industry analysts.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to communicate platform value.

Requirements

• 9–13+ years of progressive Product Management experience in B2B enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, or core infrastructure.
• 3+ years of direct people-management experience managing Product Managers, including senior or principal PMs or Group PMs.
• Strong architectural foundation in identity systems, administrative access control, usage metering, or AI-assisted enterprise workflows.
• Proven record of driving high-throughput launches and owning business or platform outcomes across interconnected product lines.
• Experience mediating engineering resource trade-offs and cross-product dependencies.
• Exceptional strategic narrative development, board-level communication, and executive presence.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Leadership experience across workflow orchestration engines, governance platforms, or disaster recovery solutions.
• Direct Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain knowledge.

Compensation and Benefits

• San Francisco Bay Area annual base salary: $258,000–$355,000 USD.
• California excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington annual base salary: $230,000–$316,000 USD.
• Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.