Product Design Architect (Chicago)

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity 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.OverviewAt 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 printThis 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 talentDrive company-wide efforts that improve our ability to scale design solutions for the largest and most complex global customersFacilitate strategic sessions with senior leadership and executive teams and serve as an advocate for our customers at the most senior levelsInfluence company strategy and help define Okta's position in the market by contributing design perspective to the highest-level product and business conversationsSet 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 standardsCollaborate with senior leadership to define the future of AI at OktaActively 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 baselineMentor designers at any level; be a standard-bearer for Okta's core values and for industry best practicesBe 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 methodsStay deeply attuned to competitor products, UX trends, and emerging technology, and bring those insights into the organization in ways that create competitive advantageWho we are looking forYou 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 powerfulYou are a strategic thought partner to product leadership and executive teams, who seek your perspective on hard problems and trust your judgment on design directionYou have a proven ability to lead and facilitate design thinking at the executive level, translating abstract business goals into actionable, human-centered design strategiesYou create new organizational and operational standards that outlast any individual deliverableYou are an effective external voice for Okta Design: you can represent Okta at a conference, contribute a byline, or appear on a podcast and make the design community want to work here.You have exceptional communication skills and can distill the most complex concepts into clear, inspiring narratives for any audience, from an individual contributor to the C-suiteYou share our values, and work in accordance with those valuesQualificationsDegree in a related field or relevant work experience as a Product Designer15+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with a significant portion of that time operating at a senior or principal level across large, complex product portfoliosDemonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI-powered design tools and plugins within your workflowProficient in Claude Code, Figma, Miro, and/or similar design and facilitation toolsPossess at least a basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React#LI-MM#LI-HybridP5847_3418719Below 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: 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:$216,000—$297,000 USDThe Okta ExperienceSupporting Your Well-BeingDriving Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + CommunityWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.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.If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.