Director of Engineering, AI Takeoff Team

Location: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; or Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Annual base salary: $275,000–$378,000 USD for selected US locations; additional ranges are listed for other US locations and Canada.

Company

Okta builds trusted identity and security infrastructure that helps organizations safely adopt AI and protect identities from AI systems to human users.

What you will do

• Work with enterprise customers and AI Forward Deployed Engineering to translate customer needs into AI capabilities and deliver them to production.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design to ensure solutions meet standards for security, reliability, scalability, and quality.
• Build, grow, and mentor a small, focused team of AI Takeoff engineers.
• Act as a senior technical subject-matter expert in customer engagements, technical evaluations, and complex sales processes.
• Lead customer escalations by identifying root causes and delivering durable solutions.
• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of the AI Takeoff engineering roadmap.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping identity, security, infrastructure, or developer-focused products in a high-growth organization.
• Proven engineering leadership and team management experience, including hiring, developing, and motivating high-performing teams.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating customer problems into technical solutions.
• Deep expertise in identity protocols, standards, architectures, and patterns.
• Experience operating in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments while balancing customer urgency, technical quality, and long-term scalability.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or agentic systems, AI security, or emerging identity patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-speed execution within an established enterprise environment.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending account, bonus, and equity where applicable for eligible US employees.
• Paid leave, including paid time off and parental leave.
• In-person onboarding designed to connect new hires with the mission and organization.