Product Designer

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Overview

We are looking for a talented Product Designer who can help shape Okta’s expansive product portfolio by bringing exceptional craft and fresh perspective to the world of identity and security.

The Finer Print

You will join a distributed and diverse team of designers and researchers supported by leadership who work collaboratively to deliver delightful solutions to complex identity problems. As a centralized design team we have a high degree of autonomy and ownership towards the outcomes we drive for our customers. We also work closely with our Product Management and Engineering counterparts to ensure our solutions are not only user-centric but also technically feasible and aligned with business needs. Together, we collaborate to define problems, explore innovative solutions and deliver seamless experiences that enhance security and usability for our customers.

In This Role, You Will

• Contribute to and drive a holistic, human-centered approach to design
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering to take products from concept to launch
• Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering and Design to define opportunities within our products to solve valuable customer problems
• Craft user-centered artifacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams, contributing to the broader user experience of workforce identity management
• Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences across different user scenarios
• Respectfully challenge conventions and contribute to the evolution of our design system (Odyssey), user experience patterns, and product development process.
• Challenge teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative process and fail forward mentality to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products.
• Advocate and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams; partner with team members to uphold our principles and standards
• Find creative ways to continuously learn from customers and users; research and synthesize user needs to help conceive, define, test and evolve solutions for our users across a range of mediums and experiences; advocate for users and delivering user and customer outcomes in a dynamic work environment
• Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional team members, adjacent teams, and senior leadership; work to distill complex technical problems into clear, conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions.
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

Who We Are Looking For

• You are passionate about upholding design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive and quality user experiences.  
• You have a learning mindset, able to manage ambiguity with openness and curiosity, helping your team drive toward clarity 
• You build and share empathy with people in order to deeply understand them and their needs.
• You are a UX champion, open to undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while also delivering practical designs
• You are someone who sees 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.
• You bring a systems-thinking lens to the conversation.
• You have strong communication and interpersonal skills and can distill complex concepts into simple, easy to understand narratives.
• You are passionate about supporting teams with a wide variety of experience, backgrounds, and interests.
• Your portfolio will show that you've worked on complex and challenging projects across all aspects of the design process (conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design)

Qualifications:

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer
• 3+ years of product design experience
• Proficient in Figma, Miro, Balsamiq and / or similar design tools.
• Possesses at least a basic understanding of HTML / CSS / JavaScript (not required)
• Can provide a digital portfolio that showcases solid skills across a variety of projects, including work that has been seen and used successfully in actual products. (Portfolio link required when applying.)

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$91,000—$137,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

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