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full-timeSenior Product Manager - Developer Productivity
Okta · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Okta provides identity and access management infrastructure, focusing on securing digital identities for both human users and AI systems. This Senior Product Manager role centers on developer productivity, requiring the candidate to act as a product owner for the internal tools and platforms used by Okta's engineering teams. The position involves deep discovery through interviewing internal stakeholders, mapping current development lifecycles, and baselining metrics to identify friction points. The role requires a technical mindset to evaluate and implement both AI-native and traditional development tools, making build-versus-buy decisions, and managing the roadmap for internal developer experience. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering leadership to standardize workflows, clear procurement and security hurdles, and prove the ROI of developer tooling through measurable improvements in cycle time and quality. This role is ideal for an experienced product manager with a strong technical background who excels at treating internal engineers as customers and can navigate complex organizational landscapes to drive platform adoption and operational efficiency.
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. Role Overview AI is rapidly changing how software is designed, built, tested, reviewed, deployed, and operated — and the industry playbook is being rewritten monthly. Okta's Developer Productivity and AI Enablement Engineering teams own building and operating the capabilities that make our engineers fast across the inner and outer development loops. This role is the product counterpart, embedded full-time with that organization, that makes those investments compound by uncovering and prioritizing frictions, bringing the outside in, driving standardize-vs-federate decisions, spreading what works across teams, funding and clearing the path for the best tools, and proving the value. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own developer productivity as a product across Okta's development lifecycle — AI-native and traditional tooling alike. You will start bottom-up: interviewing engineers, managers, tech leads, and architects; mapping current inner- and outer-loop tooling and the frictions; and baselining dev-cycle metrics. From there, you will own the roadmap with engineering leadership; benchmark how the best engineering organizations build with AI; define tooling requirements and/or run the tooling evaluations engineering needs in a landscape that changes monthly; find the teams inside Okta getting outsized results and turn their patterns into playbooks; lead build, buy, integrate, and standardize decisions, including the vision for reducing implementation diversity across Okta and Auth0; clear the security, legal, procurement, and budget paths that slow adoption; and own the measurement that connects investment to engineering outcomes — evidence engineering leaders can take into any room. This is a highly technical internal platform role that creates value for Okta through a cross-team, cross-industry, cross-functional layer that turns individual wins into organizational capability. What You'll Do Product Strategy & Discovery: Own the vision, PRDs, and prioritized backlog for Okta's internal developer productivity and AI tooling. Treat engineers as your customers: start with deep, bottom-up discovery (dozens of engineer, EM, tech lead, and architect interviews), baseline dev-cycle metrics, and secure tooling budgets with rigorous, ROI-driven business cases. Ecosystem Validation (Build vs. Buy): Drive definitive "adopt, build, or pass" decisions. Run hands-on, structured evaluations of inner- and outer-loop tooling — from coding agents and MCPs to build, CI/CD, and code review systems — against strict security and TCO criteria to ensure internal investments amplify vendor capabilities. Hands-On Execution: Embed full-time with Developer Productivity Engineering and own the roadmap jointly with its engineering leads. Define MVP scopes, manage sprints, and incrementally ship workflows. You own the strategy and requirements (the what and why); Engineering owns the technical execution (the how). Adoption & Outcomes: Own org-wide adoption, clearing security, legal, and privacy hurdles along the way. Measure success by connecting tool usage directly to hard engineering outcomes (cycle time, quality, toil reduction). Standardization & Lighthouses: Coordinate the vision for reducing implementation diversity across Okta and Auth0 engineering. Study high-performing teams to see who is getting exceptional results, and convert those patterns into scalable playbooks that shift the broader org from passive AI use to agentic workflows. What We're Looking For 5+ years of product management experience with developer platforms, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI products. Experience owning internal or platform products where users have alternatives — adoption driven through product quality rather than mandate. Strong understanding of modern software development workflows — source control, IDEs, CI/CD, testing, code review, observability, production operations — across the inner and outer loops of development. Hands-on, current fluency with AI-assisted software development — coding agents, context management, MCP, evaluation frameworks — and informed views on where these tools create leverage and where they introduce risk. Demonstrated ability to design and run technology evaluations and controlled experiments, and to define measurement systems for developer productivity with judgment about their failure modes. Ability to engage credibly in technical and architectural discussions with senior engineers w
| Role | Senior Product Manager - Developer Productivity |
|---|---|
| Company | Okta |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Type | internship |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-01 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
Before you apply
0/4About Okta
Okta, Inc. is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) company founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco. The company provides identity and access management solutions for workforces, customers, and AI agents. Its offerings include the Okta Platform for governance and the Auth0 Platform for authentication. Okta’s services are designed to secure human and machine identities, helping organizations manage access across their digital ecosystems. The company serves a diverse client base, including major government agencies and two-thirds of the Fortune 100, supporting thousands of organizations globally in securing their business operations and digital infrastructure.
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