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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.


Okta Customer Identity Cloud builds the best Customer Identity and Access Management solution on the planet. It exists so that developers can focus on building innovative ideas in their domains instead of getting distracted by handling identity themselves. It's optimized for end users to minimize friction. We designed it with security in mind to keep applications, users, and organizations safe.



Okta customers come in all sizes and shapes, and many are among the most recognized brands worldwide. Using Okta Customer Identity, customers increase security and reduce friction to grow revenues faster and more efficiently. If you desire to see the results of your work used by name-brand customers and millions of users around the world, then Okta is the place where your dreams can be turned into reality.


What's the opportunity?



You will join a distributed and diverse team of designers supported by leadership and subject matter experts, as well as design and research peers with whom you can collaborate and share feedback. You will also be part of a product team that includes Product Management and Engineering counterparts, and will have direct ownership and impact throughout the product development lifecycle. We are looking for a Product Designer to join our SDK Components team to create intuitive and visually appealing components that help customers build high-quality interfaces efficiently. The designer should be a team player and work closely with engineers and product managers to solve complex problems. This role requires creativity, technical acumen, and a deep understanding of UX/UI methodologies.


You will:


• Work cross-functionally with Product Managers and Engineers, prioritizing UX improvements, partnering on strategies for SDK components, facilitating design discussions, and providing feedback.
• Contribute to and maintain the design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all SDK components.
• Build a deep understanding of your core customers.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that align with the platform's capabilities and best practices.
• Work with the Research team and obtain the necessary support to conduct research and communicate insights to help the team understand customer problems.
• Transform challenging workflows into simple, usable and elegant experiences for developers.
• Share work early and often and seek out constructive feedback from peers, product teams, and other stakeholders.
• Iterate on solutions based on direct and indirect stakeholder feedback.
• Work together with designers on other product teams to keep work consistent, improve quality, contribute to our team processes and principles.
• Produce clear and comprehensive design documentation to support development and facilitate communication across teams.

Keep up with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies in the identity space.
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You might be a good fit for this role if you have:


• Front-end development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively collaborate and design with engineers.
• An advanced understanding of UI/UX/Visual design concepts and an exceptional eye for detail with a portfolio that showcases this understanding.
• Solid understanding of SDKs, APIs, and the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into user-friendly design solutions.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma or similar.
• Worked on a robust and comprehensive design system, and know when to break out and create new extensible patterns.
• Experience building enterprise products (B2B), ideally designing products for developers.
• Think in systems and are able to extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors.
• Have proficiency in user and customer research: from developing a research plan, interviewing or conducting usability testing with users, analyzing feedback, and reporting research findings.
• 5+ years of relevant experience preferably working with developer tools, visual design, and UX/UI.
• Experience working in a remote environment.

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


• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 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/.



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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.



Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.

Okta The foundation for secure connections between people and technology
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 18,800 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.