Staff Product Designer - Okta Identity Governance

Okta is hiring a Staff Product Designer to shape end-to-end UX for Identity Governance in a hybrid role from Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term design strategy for your product area, influencing direction across multiple releases beyond the immediate roadmap.
• Partner with design leadership to define patterns and standards that other designers can build on, raising the quality bar in your area.
• Lead through influence by aligning product, engineering, research, and content partners on shared direction.
• Design end-to-end journeys across the Okta portfolio for multiple personas including IT and security admins, compliance owners, resource owners, approving managers, and end users.
• Apply systems-thinking to connect user insights with business goals and help keep millions of users safe.
• Facilitate co-creation workshops with Product Management and Engineering to frame opportunities and shape what is worth building.
• Mentor senior designers by guiding their projects and supporting growth and career development.
• Present concepts to adjacent teams and senior leadership to drive alignment and influence product decisions.
• Encourage thoughtful AI usage across research, brainstorming, iteration, prototyping, and collaboration, while ensuring quality.

Requirements

• Experience leading cross-discipline teams and treating design as a strategic partner to PM and Engineering for both product and UX outcomes.
• Ability to move between big-picture strategy and detailed execution, creating clarity for the team and partners.
• Strong mentorship approach, with a teacher mindset to mentor and train others.
• Experience exploring new technologies and territories while still delivering practical designs.
• Passion for building and sharing product and design UX principles that help teams deliver cohesive experiences.
• Hands-on workflow with AI, including building tools and reusable prompts, plus vetting outputs for accuracy, design system fit, and usability before release.
• Customer-focused problem solving that balances user goals with business objectives and engineering considerations.
• Comfort owning all design stages within a given product area.
• Storytelling skills to communicate design ideas across stakeholder groups.
• Portfolio evidence across complex technical work and all aspects of the design process, including generative and evaluative research, discovery, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design.
• Share Okta values and work in accordance with them.
• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
• Proficiency in Figma or similar design tools.
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Digital portfolio is required, including a link when applying.
• 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer.

Technologies

• Figma
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Compensation

• Annual base salary range: USD 156,000 - 215,000 per year.
• Annual base salary range note for certain locations (including Washington): $156,000 - $215,000 USD.

Additional compensation and benefits

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

Okta experience

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