Senior Principal Product Designer

Okta is building identity experiences that feel cohesive, simple, and secure across its entire platform. In this Senior Principal Product Design role, you lead design vision and architecture at the company-wide level, connecting portfolio UX into a unified system while helping shape product strategy alongside executives.

Working in a hybrid setup from Bellevue, WA, you’ll partner across R&D, product, and engineering to make high-impact decisions for millions of users. The position is designed for a senior design leader with deep craft, systems thinking, and an AI-informed approach to shipping quality at enterprise scale.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the lead designer across the full Okta platform, ensuring products work together as one cohesive, simple, and secure experience
• Define design vision, set company-wide standards, and influence high-level strategy with executive leadership
• Own the design architecture that connects Okta-wide Principal Product Designers by setting the innovation agenda, establishing standards across portfolios, and helping Okta define what great identity experiences look like
• Partner with R&D organizations, working alongside product and engineering leadership to drive decisions with broad, lasting impact on how users navigate, understand, use, and trust Okta products
• Shape the highest-order design strategy across Okta’s full product portfolio
• Lead company-wide discovery efforts and translate business ambitions into compelling, human-centered product visions with product leadership and executive teams
• Establish best practices and raise design fluency across the entire Research & Development organization
• Refine structural design decisions that product teams build within platform-level IA, cross-product navigation models, shared interaction paradigms, and design governance processes that preserve standards over time
• Apply a mix of deep craft work (architecture maps, journeys and user flows, design standards), strategic facilitation (cross-org alignment, design reviews), and active mentorship of senior and principal designers
• Communicate forward-looking visions for Okta and its customers to energize teams and help attract talent
• Drive company-wide efforts to improve how design solutions scale for the largest and most complex global customers
• Facilitate strategic sessions with senior leadership and executive teams and advocate for customers at the most senior levels
• Contribute design perspective to highest-level product and business conversations to influence company strategy and help define Okta’s market position
• Set an example for how Okta uses AI to ship high-quality designs, evangelizing approaches across Engineering, Product, and Design
• Align teams around company-level goals and design standards to enable execution
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the future of AI at Okta
• Uplevel design fluency beyond Product Design so more of Okta thinks and builds with design quality as a baseline
• Mentor designers across levels, acting as a standard-bearer for Okta core values and industry best practices
• Be an early adopter of evolving methods, including AI-assisted workflows, forming an opinion about new design methods and helping the organization adopt them
• Stay attuned to competitor products, UX trends, and emerging technology, bringing insights that create competitive advantage

Requirements

• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer
• 15+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with a significant portion at senior or principal level across large, complex product portfolios
• Demonstrated proficiency leveraging AI-powered design tools and plugins in your workflow
• Proficiency with Claude Code, Figma, Miro, and/or similar design and facilitation tools
• Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React
• Industry expert experience designing for enterprise scale and identity security
• AI-first mindset demonstrated through practical experience using various AI tools in daily design workflows
• Company-wide, systems-level perspective across the product portfolio, identifying the connective tissue that makes Okta’s suite coherent and powerful
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate design thinking at the executive level, translating abstract business goals into actionable, human-centered strategies
• Ability to create new organizational and operational standards that outlast any individual deliverable
• Effective external voice for Okta Design, including representing Okta at conferences, contributing a byline, or appearing on a podcast
• Exceptional communication skills to distill complex concepts into clear, inspiring narratives for audiences from individual contributors to the C-suite
• Share Okta values and work in accordance with those values

Tools and technologies

• Claude Code, Figma, Miro
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React
• AI

Compensation and location

• Location: Bellevue, WA (hybrid)
• Salary: USD 216,000 - 297,000 per year

Benefits

• Equity (where applicable)
• Bonus
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

The Okta Experience

• Supporting Your Well-Being
• Driving Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community