Principal Product Manager (Developer Productivity)

Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Senior Product Manager focused on developer productivity and AI tooling. In this role, you will be embedded with the Developer Productivity and AI Enablement Engineering teams, driving the roadmap for internal developer productivity and AI tooling. You will conduct in-depth discovery with engineers, managers, and architects, and own the vision, PRDs, and prioritized backlog for Okta's internal developer productivity and AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• You will also drive "adopt, build, or pass" decisions, manage sprints, and own org-wide adoption.
• This is a highly technical internal platform role that creates value for Okta through cross-team, cross-industry, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Own the vision, PRDs, and prioritized backlog for Okta's internal developer productivity and AI tooling, starting with deep, bottom-up discovery.
• Drive definitive "adopt, build, or pass" decisions for tooling, running hands-on, structured evaluations against strict security and TCO criteria.
• Embed full-time with Developer Productivity Engineering, jointly owning the roadmap with its engineering leads, defining MVP scopes, managing sprints, and incrementally shipping workflows.
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience with developer platforms, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or AI products
• 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
• Experience owning internal or platform products where users have alternatives — adoption driven through product quality rather than mandate
• Ability to engage credibly in technical and architectural discussions with senior engineers while maintaining clear boundaries between product outcomes and engineering implementation
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, security, architecture, and finance without direct authority
• Excellent written communication in a docs-first culture; you can produce solid action plans from incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs
• Experience deploying or scaling developer tools across a large, multi-org engineering organization — including consolidating divergent stacks and the change management that comes with it
• Hands-on familiarity with developer AI tools, harnesses, APIs, MCPs, and agent orchestration frameworks
• Familiarity with developer productivity research (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) and its failure modes
• Experience establishing governance, evaluation frameworks, or spend management for rapidly evolving, consumption-priced technologies