Director of Product Management, Okta ISV Ecosystem

Companies all over the world and across every industry trust Okta for elegant and secure identity management. Okta relies on its partner ISVs for not only the Okta Integration Network (OIN) ecosystem, but also the success of our largest customers due to the security and trust our partners reinforce through our joint offerings.

We are looking for a driven, curious, and empathetic product management leader to push the envelope of Okta’s market footprint by growing our ISV ecosystem. As Director of Product Management for Okta ISV Ecosystem, this manager will be responsible for product strategy, and managing a PM team dedicated to evolving the ISV touchpoints (digital properties, environments, app dev/test/submit/publish, API surface area) across the entirety of the partner’s journey with Okta. If you have a passion for custom/partner collaboration, ecosystems, and a belief that ISV success is core to an enterprise software company’s expansion, we are looking for you!

Responsibilities

• Own the growth of Okta’s ISV ecosystem through product vision.
• Connect with key ISV partners and customers to distill down feature asks and pain points into true requirements that deliver broad customer value
• Develop roadmaps that make hard tradeoffs and prioritize the highest value work first
• Build compelling hypotheses and find ways to validate assumptions at low cost
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including engineering, ISV program, tech partnerships,  and marketing, to ensure the successful launch and adoption of ISV experience enhancements.
• Work with India-based development scrum teams (PM, UX, Dev) to deliver valuable new ISV targeted features and product improvements to customers.
• Conduct research and analysis to identify ISV partner needs, and use this information to inform strategic vision, innovation, product decisions, prioritization and roadmap.
• Define and communicate product requirements, including features, user experience, and technical specifications, to engineering teams.
• Leverage product data to continually get smarter about how to improve our existing products, and work across the business to drive adoption and success
• Track industry trends and think strategically to develop solutions that are differentiated from the competition
• Be the subject matter expert for your product area and help enable your counterparts in the ISV Program, Marketing, and tech partnerships teams.

Required:

• 8-10+ years of Product Management experience in enterprise scale SaaS products or comparable relevant experience.
• Experience building or product managing the user experience of a partner joining, engaging, and building upon a core enterprise software platform.
• Strong communication (presentation, verbal and written) and collaboration skills. You easily work with customers and colleagues across different functions and backgrounds.
• Demonstrated business results from products, features or capabilities you have shipped.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. You can produce solid action plans from often incomplete, conflicting or ambiguous inputs.
• Passion for Okta’s huge opportunity and growth potential, and general thirst for learning with an ability to go broad and deep across business and technical contexts.

Preferred:

• Experience with creating requirements and driving multiple teams for ISV developer tooling, API footprint, partnerships, and/or adoption growth
• Experience with ISV marketplaces and/or ecosystems, self-service, and administration experiences to organically scale an ecosystem.
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services, partner considerations surfaced in the user experience in particular
• Familiarity with Identity and Access management protocols and products
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience that allows you to rationalize and influence technical design decisions.
• Advanced degree in technical or business field, MBA helpful.

Location Note

This role is based in Bengaluru and follows a hybrid model, requiring you to be in the office 2-3 days a week. The engineering team for this role is based out of India, whilst the collaborating teams, and other cross functional leads are US based, so you should be comfortable being available (as are India PMs) for meetings 9-11a Pacific time, three days a week. As a people manager, there may be additional days required depending on strategic urgency.

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