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Product Design Architect
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Okta
Washington, DC (In Person)
$216,000 Salary, Full-Time
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Product Design Architect Okta vision insurance, flexible benefit account, parental leave, 401(k) United States, D.C., Washington May 14, 2026 Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Overview At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and, within Okta Platform R D, we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. We bring simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, promising to not only protect the identities of our customers' workforce and users, but to ask, "what more can we make possible?" As a Product Design Architect, you are the lead designer for the entire Okta platform. You ensure that all our products work together as one cohesive, simple, and secure experience. You will define the design vision, set company-wide standards, and influence high-level strategy alongside executive leadership. Where Principal Product Designers own the UX strategy within product and portfolio areas, you'll own the design architecture that connects them at the Okta-wide level, setting the innovation agenda, establishing standards across portfolios, and ensuring that Okta's products define what great identity experiences look like, both inside our walls and in the industry. This role sits at the intersection of design craft and strategic leadership. You'll work across R D organizations, partnering with product and engineering leadership to make decisions that have broad, lasting impact on how millions of users navigate, understand, use, and trust Okta's products. Finer print This role shapes the highest-order design strategy across Okta's full product portfolio. You will lead company-wide discovery efforts and work hand-in-hand with product leadership and executive teams to translate business ambitions into compelling, human-centered product visions. You will establish best practices and raise design fluency across the entire Research & Development organization. You will help refine the structural design decisions that product teams build within: the platform-level IA, cross-product navigation models, shared interaction paradigms, and the design governance processes that ensure those standards hold over time. You'll do this through a combination of deep craft work (architecture maps, journeys and user flows, design standards), strategic facilitation (cross-org alignment, design reviews), and active mentorship of the senior and principal designers who look to you for direction. You won't be embedded in a single product area, you'll be the connective tissue across all of them. In this role, you'll get to... Communicate inspiring, forward-looking visions of the future for Okta and our customers that energize teams and attract talent
Drive company-wide efforts that improve our ability to scale design solutions for the largest and most complex global customers
Facilitate strategic sessions with senior leadership and executive teams and serve as an advocate for our customers at the most senior levels
Influence company strategy and help define Okta's position in the market by contributing design perspective to the highest-level product and business conversations
Set an example for how we best use AI across to ship high quality designs and evangelize those approaches across Engineering, Product, and Design.
Enable execution across the company by aligning teams around company-level goals and design standards
Collaborate with senior leadership to define the future of AI at Okta
Actively work to uplevel design fluency across the entire company, not just the Product Design team, so that more of Okta thinks and builds with design quality as a baseline
Mentor designers at any level; be a standard-bearer for Okta's core values and for industry best practices
Be an early adopter of new methods in design, including AI-assisted workflows. Form an opinion about evolving design methods and practices, and help the organization adopt those new methods
Stay deeply attuned to competitor products, UX trends, and emerging technology, and bring those insights into the organization in ways that create competitive advantage Who we are looking for You are an industry expert. Your work, your thinking, and your reputation extend beyond any single company, and you have experience with designing for enterprise scale and for identity security.
You bring an AI-first mindset, demonstrated by practical experience using various AI tools in your daily design workflows.
You bring a company-wide, systems-level perspective; you see across the entire product portfolio and identify the connective tissue that makes Okta's suite coherent and powerful
You are a strategic thought partner to product leadership and executive teams, who seek your perspective on hard problems and trust your judgment on design direction
You have a proven ability to lead and facilitate design thinking at the executive level, translating abstract business goals into actionable, human-centered design strategies
You create new organizational and operational standards that outlast any individual deliverable
You are an effective external voice for