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Salary: USD 275,000 - 378,000 / annual
Okta is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the AI Takeoff Team, a customer-focused engineering organization operating at startup speed within the larger enterprise. This team serves as the tip of the spear, creating rapid feedback loops from customers to product and engineering, working directly with enterprise customers to understand real-world problems, validate solutions, and accelerate AI and identity security capabilities that become part of the Okta platform.
You will operate like an engineering leader at a startup: moving quickly, staying close to customers, delivering with urgency, and bringing the broader Okta organization along. This is a career-defining role for a leader looking to directly impact the growth trajectory of the industry leader in identity and AI security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with top customers and AI Forward Deployed Engineering to rapidly translate customer needs into differentiated AI capabilities and deliver them to production
- Partner with broader Okta Engineering, Product, and Design to ensure capabilities are production-ready and meet standards for security, reliability, scalability, and quality
- Build, grow, and mentor a small, highly focused team of AI Takeoff engineers operating with high autonomy and urgency
- Serve as a senior technical subject matter expert in customer engagements, technical evaluations, and complex sales processes
- Lead complex customer escalations with a bias toward rapidly identifying root causes and delivering durable solutions
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for the AI Takeoff engineering roadmap, balancing customer urgency with long-term scalability and production quality
Requirements:
- 8+ years building and shipping identity, security, infrastructure, or developer-focused products in a high-growth organization
- Proven engineering leadership and team management experience, including hiring, developing, and motivating high-performing teams
- Strong executive communication and influencing skills, with a track record of driving outcomes across organizational boundaries and bringing cross-functional teams together
- Proven experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating customer problems into technical solutions
- Deep identity domain expertise — knowledge of the latest identity protocols, standards, architectures, and patterns
- Experience operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments where priorities evolve quickly and execution matters
- Strong product and customer orientation, with the ability to balance customer urgency, technical quality, and long-term scalability
- Experience with AI/agentic systems, AI security, or emerging identity patterns is a strong plus
