Overview
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human. Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We are all in on this mission. If you are aligned, let's talk.
Location: Washington, DC
The Identity Team
The Identity team's mission is to secure the world's identity connections while building the foundational trust layer for the modern enterprise. As organizations successfully adopt phishing-resistant MFA, attackers have shifted their tactics, increasingly deploying Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing kits and info-stealer malware to hijack sessions via cookie theft. With the rise of autonomous AI workloads, securing human identity is no longer enough; we must also protect and govern a growing sprawl of non-human, agentic workflows.
The Principal Product Manager Opportunity
We are seeking a highly mature, customer-obsessed, and technically curious Principal Product Manager to lead the Identity Security and Agentic Identity portfolio. You will be a core member of the Okta on Okta team, acting as Customer Zero. You will report directly to the VP of IAM to ensure internal validation and adoption of capabilities. You will shepherd cutting-edge features from Alpha through Early Availability, ensuring internal teams test and provide feedback, and that these solutions are successfully piloted before scaling to the broader market. In this rapidly evolving space, success hinges on your professional maturity, strategic judgment, and ability to operate autonomously. You will bridge internal deployment, capture real-world insights, and directly influence and shape the core Okta and Auth0 product roadmaps.
Key Portfolio Focus Areas
As the Principal PM, you will steer the strategy and directly influence the direction of Okta's leading identity security offerings across both our workforce and developer platforms.
- AI Agent & Agentic Identity Security: Guiding the governance of non-human AI workloads across the product ecosystem.
- O4AA (Okta for AI Agents) & A4AA (Auth0 for AI Agents): Defining authentication and authorization patterns for workforce and developer-facing AI agents.
- Next-Gen Guardrails: Managing token exchange patterns, identity/security gateways, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to secure agent-to-data interactions.
- Hardware-Bound Session Security: Building Okta's defense against session cookie theft using cryptographically hardware-bound tokens. This includes owning the strategy for Okta Device Bound SSO (DBSSO) and Google Chrome Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC).
- Advanced Threat & Posture Management: Integrating Identity Threat Protection (ITP) for continuous risk evaluation and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) to surface and remediate risks across both human and machine identities.
What you'll be doing
- Roadmap Influence & Strategy: Develop and refine the strategic roadmap for the Identity Security portfolio and shape the core Okta and Auth0 product roadmaps based on internal deployment findings.
- Champagne Lifecycle Management (Alpha to EA): Ensure Alpha features are tested by Okta's internal IAM team and gathered feedback throughout the SDLC. Own the internal rollout through Early Availability to drive adoption so Okta can benefit first.
- Anti-Session Hijacking Architecture: Design the internal rollout blueprint and external product strategy for how Okta DBSSO and Chrome DBSC complement each other, creating a layered defense against token and cookie exfiltration.
- Agentic Governance: Define the operational and technical guardrails for deploying AI Agents internally and externally, ensuring secure integration via identity gateways, downscoped runtime permissions, and a robust audit trail.
- Execution & Technical Delivery: Serve as the primary liaison between business units, development, and engineering. Lead planning activities, author comprehensive PRDs/User stories, and prioritize features within Scrum/Kanban frameworks.
- Metrics & Insights: Define and monitor KPI-based reporting to provide the VP of IAM and executive leadership with clear visibility into portfolio scope, security coverage, and testing velocity across human and non-human identities.
What you'll bring to the role
- Professional Maturity & Experience: Proven success operating at a Principal level within Product Management, Technical Program Management, or Enterprise Architecture. Experience in IAM technologies, developer platforms (like Auth0), enterprise security, or machine-to-machine infrastructure is valuable, but your ability to lead through influence matters most.
- AI & Developer Tech Literacy: A solid grasp of how AI agents, LLM applications, security gateways, and developer APIs handle authentication, authorization, and modern patterns (MCP and OAuth 2.0).
- Session Security & Threat Literacy: Strong understanding of current identity threat vectors (AiTM phishing, info-stealer malware, session hijacking) and how cryptographic hardware-binding (TPM, Secure Enclave) protects session state.
- Strategic Influence: A track record of guiding product roadmaps and engineering priorities across highly matrixed, global organizations without direct reporting authority.
- Navigating Ambiguity: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to translate ambiguous inputs into concrete action plans.
- Executive Presence: Elite presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with the confidence to brief executive leadership and translate technical architecture into business value.
The Okta Experience
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