Senior Manager, Engineering, Collaboration Services

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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.

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The Technology, Data, and Intelligence Team

Okta's Technology, Data, & Intelligence organization is on a mission to simplify and secure internal operations through automation, analysis, and scale. Our Productivity Engineering team is responsible for developing internal tooling, infrastructure and services that empower Okta employees to work as effectively as possible.

We work across engineering, data science, security, and internal business teams to deliver automation-powered services that integrate across a wide array of SAAS apps and internally developed infrastructure to Okta. A growing focus for our team has been an investment of cycles into AI agentic platforms, workflow orchestration, and data analytic dashboarding. We're looking for engineers who enjoy solving tough problems and building with purpose.

The Senior Manager, Engineering, Collaboration Services & Productivity Opportunity

Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering Services, this role will drive the vision and execution of the core engineering services that power our enterprise, with a strong emphasis on integrating and optimizing productivity applications like Google, Slack, and other collaboration tools. This role is pivotal in establishing productivity as a first-class citizen across the enterprise. You will be driving the evolution of Enterprise Productivity and Artificial Intelligence. Through the delivery of a centralized Productivity Suite, you will redefine the TDI function as a strategic value creator, leveraging internal tooling as a competitive differentiator for Okta's operational scale.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the complete lifecycle of AI-powered productivity services-from ideation and deployment to ongoing operations-to enhance service delivery, automate tasks, and ensure scalable, reliable performance.
• Launch and manage an "Employee Productivity Suite" as a cohesive product, overseeing its entire lifecycle from strategy and roadmap development to execution, adoption tracking, and measurement of productivity gains to demonstrate clear business value.
• Drive initiatives to evolve and secure the company's collaboration and security endpoints, increasing efficiency and ensuring alignment with current industry standards and best practices.
• Hire, develop, mentor, and retain extraordinary talent for the distributed team of Productivity Engineers.
• Manage service and business expectations and prioritize resource allocation.
• Ensure the security and compliance of all BT Engineering applications and systems.
• Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Address friction, manual processes, and disparate systems that impact employee quality of life and hinder innovation.
  

What you'll bring to the role

• 12+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• 8+ years of experience in technical leadership.
• 7+ years of experience in people management.
• Proven experience leading the deployment and operation of AI-driven solutions or machine learning models to solve enterprise challenges.
• Experience navigating security and compliance certification audits (e.g., FedRAMP, CIS, SOX, SOC2, PCI).
• Possess in-depth knowledge of collaboration, messaging, and endpoint applications.
• Experience working on Identity and Access Management software and concepts.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• B.S. or relevant work experience.
  

Okta's Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company's actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It's our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
  

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $205,000—$307,000 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: $183,000—$275,000 USD

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

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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.

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