Staff Technical Program Manager, Planning, Programs & Operations
Okta
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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.
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The Planning, Programs & Operations Team
The Planning, Programs & Operations (PPO) team leads strategic programs to accelerate scale and business outcomes across Okta. We drive processes and initiatives where dependencies and ambiguity exist and deep cross-functional interactions are needed to achieve success. We love our customers and are successful with deep collaboration driving accountability & ownership.
The Staff Technical Program Manager Opportunity
We seek a Staff Technical Program Manager who demonstrates strong leadership and a strategic mindset, with a proven track record in driving cross-functional initiatives. You possess an in-depth understanding of BT infrastructure, security, business applications, and data landscapes. The ideal candidate will utilize their agile project management expertise to collaborate with business units, partners, and technical teams, ensuring successful outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
- You will manage large cross-functional projects and programs, serving the needs of multiple stakeholders, working on issues where critical thinking & active stakeholder management will be essential
- You will build and track key deliverables & artifacts, developing risk mitigation plans where needed to ensure intended business outcomes & objectives
- You will facilitate decision making up and down the organization with SteerCo discussions, team level alignment and technical design meetings, right sizing the types & frequency of communication and collaboration needed
- You will be an advocate for process improvements evolving how we work in SaaS and Agile environments
What you’ll bring to the role
- You are comfortable diving deep into the technical details across multiple disciplines and can leverage your technical domain knowledge to facilitate conversations solving critical challenges & hard problems
- You operate with a high-degree of autonomy, easily removing ambiguity and managing dependencies across multiple teams, exercising independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- You have 5-8 years of project/program management experience in a cloud/SaaS environment & solid understanding of working within an agile framework
- You have the ability to influence and navigate the organization without authority and are an expert communicator
- You have demonstrated ability working with project management & collaboration tools (Jira, Google Workspace, Smartsheet, Tempus, Asana, Slack, Zoom, Lucid, Confluence, Coupa, etc.)
- Bachelors of Science in CS, MIS, related degree or equivalent work experience with minimum of 4 years of technical work experience
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- PMP & Scrum certification desirable (CSM, A-CSM, etc)
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, 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.
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
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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/.
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