Principal Product Manager - Okta Identity Threat Detection and Response Products

Responsibilities

Roadmap and Vision

• Define product strategy and roadmap for Okta Identity Security functionality.
• Evangelize product vision to engineering, product, and customer audiences.
• Prioritize features that improve customer security posture and administrative usability.
• Use product data and usage metrics to guide roadmap decisions and measure security and business outcomes.

Product Delivery and Execution

• Drive timely, within-budget delivery of the Identity Security roadmap.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, design, scrum teams, and Technical Program Managers to deliver platform-first experiences and security features.
• Prioritize investments across multiple security product areas.

Customer and Market Engagement

• Gather customer security requirements and document user stories and use cases.
• Understand customer challenges involving identity threats, access control, and network security.
• Incorporate beta feedback into product iterations and maintain customer relationships during beta programs.
• Collaborate with technical marketing, sales, and product marketing on competitive positioning, messaging, content, go-to-market strategy, pricing, and packaging.
• Support the field on critical customer security requests and help unblock sales.

Product Ownership

• Lead quarterly business reviews and collaborate with go-to-market teams to expand the customer pipeline.
• Identify new product opportunities and drive development of identity security products and platform capabilities.
• Interview and select candidates and mentor early-career product managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 8+ years of product management experience.
• Proven strategic vision and product design experience for security-focused products.
• Experience creating new product offerings, including go-to-market strategy, pricing, product naming, legal contracts, and New Product Introduction.
• Experience defining and driving Threat Protection, Threat Intelligence, SaaS Security, and Network Security product suites.
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise security products or services.
• Strong technical background and ability to influence security architecture, technical design, and investment decisions.
• Ability to develop action plans from incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous security inputs.
• Strong influence, leadership, executive presence, and player-coach capabilities.
• Excellent communication across technical and business audiences.

Nice-to-Haves

• Advanced degree in a technical or business field.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise security products, cybersecurity frameworks, and security best practices.
• Extensive knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) and its relationship to security.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and threat detection standards.
• Experience developing user flows and customizable security experiences.
• Experience creating and managing multi-tenant SaaS security products.
• Passion for identity security and willingness to learn broadly across business and technical security contexts.

Compensation and Benefits

• ATS-listed salary range: $208,000–$349,000 USD.
• Equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, paid time off, and parental leave.