Staff Product Designer

Overview

Staff Product Designer leading user experience strategy and execution for Okta Research & Development (ORD), focused on building a secure, trusted, and unified identity platform with deep integrations.

What you'll do

• Lead a holistic, human-centered approach to design, guiding UX strategy alongside cross-functional partners from concept to launch.
• Design and facilitate co-creation design workshops with Product Management, Engineering, and Design to define opportunities that solve valuable customer problems.
• Craft user-centered artifacts and end-to-end journeys to align teams contributing to Workforce Identity Management around the broader user experience.
• Collaborate with other Okta designers to ensure consistency across interface experiences in different user scenarios.
• Inspire teams to think bigger and act smaller, instilling an iterative, fail-forward process to design simple and delightful user interfaces for new and existing Okta products.
• Advocate, mentor, and educate on the benefits of design thinking to product teams and new designers, partnering with UX team members to uphold principles and standards.
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to team-level and design practice and process improvements.
• Work with Design Leadership to define and drive frameworks, contracts, and standards for others to build on, ensuring the quality of UX delivery.
• Learn continuously from customers and users, collaborating with user researchers to research, synthesize needs, and test and evolve solutions across mediums and experiences.
• Help product designers create success metrics that show how their designs impact customers.
• Present work, concepts, and new ideas to cross-functional teams, adjacent teams, and senior leadership, distilling complex technical problems into clear conceptual models and simple, elegant solutions.
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends, including practical application of AI in the design process, and perform competitive and comparative analysis.

What you'll need

• Experience leading cross-discipline teams and exemplifying leadership.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer, with a portfolio showcasing shipped B2B or enterprise products.
• Degree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience using AI-powered design tools (e.g., for ideation, asset generation, or prototyping) in daily design activities.
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or similar design tools.
• At least a basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• A digital portfolio showcasing solid skills across a variety of projects, including work seen and used successfully in actual products (portfolio link required when applying).
• Passion for solving complex problems and crafting and sharing product and design UX principles to help teams deliver cohesive user experiences.
• Great at collaborating, sharing work early and often, and seeking constructive feedback from peers and stakeholders.
• Heart of a teacher, able to mentor and train people.
• Builds and shares empathy to deeply understand people and their needs.
• Thought leader undertaking explorations into new technologies and territories while delivering practical designs.
• Sees design as a partner in shaping strategic and operational product and UX outcomes; comfortable owning all stages of design for multiple teams within a product area.
• Systems-thinking lens.
• Portfolio showing complex and/or technical projects across conceptual design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design.
• Adept at working in a diverse, globally distributed team with experience in remote collaboration tools.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid (#LI_Hybrid).
• Includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.