Okta

Product Manger - Federations

Okta$142K — $196K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience in product management
  • Experience in identity, security, enterprise-scale, platform, or developer products
  • Deep technical discussion ability with engineering teams
  • Fluency in federation protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML)
  • Skill in connecting platform decisions to business outcomes
  • Empathy in understanding customer problems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership perspective.

Responsibilities

  • Own roadmap and prioritize product area balancing various key factors
  • Collaborate with design and engineering to deliver secure and interoperable experiences
  • Translate platform needs into actionable product requirements with stakeholders
  • Utilize AI tools for roadmap alignment and rapid prototyping
  • Coordinate with global teams for successful federations launch and adoption
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in customer escalations and evaluations
  • Track industry trends to develop differentiated product solutions.

Benefits

  • Health, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Flexible spending account
  • Paid leave including PTO and parental leave
  • Opportunities for equity and bonuses
  • Comprehensive onboarding experience for new hires.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As Product Manager, Federations, you own product strategy and execution for our Federations roadmap. The Federations team owns how user, machine, and agentic identities move inbound and outbound of Okta via industry-standard protocols. This includes outbound federations, which span how Okta acts as an identity provider to downstream apps and services (OAuth/OIDC, SAML, API access management), as well as inbound federations, which span how Okta consume identity from external sources (external idPS, social auth, JIT provisioning, claims mapping, and logout).

Federations is foundational to the entire Okta product portfolio. Youll work closely with engineering, design, other product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders across Oktas platform to ensure federation capabilities evolve strategically.

This role requires being able to deep-dive technically and build protocol fluency, youll be expected to reason credibly about OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and related specs with engineering, standards teams, and customers.
What Youll Do
  • Own roadmap and prioritization for your product area, balancing standards leadership, security, customer requests, and platform strategy
  • Collaborate with design and engineering to define, scope, and ship experiences that meet protocol requirements (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2) without compromising security, interoperability, or user experience
  • Work directly with customers, Solutions Engineering, Support, Standards, and other product teams to understand platform needs and translate them into product requirements
  • Use AI tools to accelerate spec writing, competitive analysis, and rapid prototyping to drive roadmap alignment and execution
  • Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including engineering, field teams, tech partnerships, and marketing, to ensure the successful launch and adoption of federations-related experiences
  • Serve as the subject matter expert, representing Federations in customer escalations, executive briefings, and enterprise prospect evaluations as well as partnerships with Marketing and GTM counterparts
  • Track industry trends and think strategically to develop solutions that are differentiated from the competition

What You Bring to Okta
  • 3+ years experience in product management
  • Experience in identity, security, enterprise-scale, platform, or developer products
  • Ability to have in-depth technical discussions with engineering teams.
  • Ability to build working fluency in federation protocols, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, to have credible conversations with engineers and customers
  • Ability to connect platform-level decisions to Oktas broader business outcomes and market position as a technology leader
  • Ability to empathize and dig deeper into customer problems and needs before designing solutions
  • Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable flexing between spec-level detail and executive narrative
  • Entrepreneurial and ownership mindset - given an ambiguous problem, you decide what matters, decide what to do about it, and drive it forward.
  • Collaborative by default - you strive to earn trust with customers, cross-functional partners, and stakeholders. Your default is to bring people in early and often to inform a blended, stronger direction.

Nice to Have
  • Experience with API access management, non-human identity, or agentic identity use cases
  • Experience contributing to or engaging with standards bodies (OpenID Foundation, IETF, etc.)

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$159,000-$219,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:

$142,000-$196,000 USD

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$124,000-$170,000 CAD

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

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

About Okta

Okta is a leading provider of identity and access management solutions for enterprises. The company's cloud-based platform enables organizations to securely connect people and technology, providing secure access to applications and data from any device, anywhere, at any time. Okta's solutions are used by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Okta is committed to providing innovative solutions that help organizations stay secure and productive in today's digital world.
Learn more about Okta
Size
5,342 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.3 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+51.9%
Revenue
$835.4 million
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