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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.
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology - anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transform how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Okta Technical Account Management:
Technical Account Management is a global team that partners with Okta’s Customer Success team and collaborates with Okta’s customers to share knowledge, best practices and make recommendations to continuously innovate around identity and security.
The Global New Product Introduction (NPI) Overlay Team functions as an elite squad acting as a crucial bridge between Pre-Sales, Product and our global TAM organization. We are Okta product experts, and we enable Okta's worldwide growth by establishing repeatable adoption patterns, driving early-stage readiness, and ensuring core TAM teams are programmatically equipped to realize technical value across our newest capabilities.
The Senior Technical Account Manager Opportunity:
A Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) - New Product Introduction (NPI) Specialist Overlay serves as a highly technical overlay resource designed to build the architectural blueprints for how Okta scales its newest and most complex capabilities. This role handles a crucial dual motion consisting of NPI via time-boxed, sprint-based engagements to establish repeatable adoption patterns, and Specialist Overlay via targeted interventions for existing product sets that show a deficit in market adoption. The overlay specialist steps into high-stakes, ambiguous technical environments, drives early-stage adoption, packages learnings into scalable systems, and exits cleanly so the broader global TAM organization can execute independently.
The TAM specialization requires an understanding of hybrid scenarios that capitalize on Okta’s ability to manage authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management capabilities for SaaS, on-premise, and custom enterprise applications.
You Will:
- Advise early-adopter customers on architectural best practices and product adoption during high-priority product launch windows.
- Operate within strict Rules of Engagement (ROE) where the Core TAM retains ultimate account ownership, proactively managing potential friction or overlapping responsibilities.
- Lead targeted, time-boxed technical sprints with high-value customers to bridge the technical value gap post-sale.
- Execute structured account handbacks to Core TAM teams using established transition and exit criteria once defined adoption thresholds or playbooks are met.
- Partner effectively with neighboring technical motions, such as the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, to align strategic customer roadmaps with product capability rollouts.
- Capture high-fidelity technical telemetry directly from early adopters, translating raw field friction into actionable, ARR-weighted product signals for Product Management and Engineering.
- Coordinate closely with Product Acceleration Team (PAT) specialists to smoothly transition technical workloads into the TAM organization.
- Evaluate early-stage software and co-author the operational "Go/No-Go" criteria that dictate when an NPI capability is ready for broad TAM support.
- Act as an elite response squad during high-priority NPI launches to prioritize accounts, absorb heavy technical workloads, and unburden core TAM teams during early performance regressions.
- Document repeatable adoption patterns, configuration models, and expansion triggers into structured engineering playbooks to move beyond 1:1 consulting deep dives.
- Partner directly with the TAM 1:Many / Knowledge Scaling function to design and deliver programmatic content, scaling your specialized expertise to make over 100+ global TAMs proficient in new solutions.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of total experience in information technology, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience as a Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or comparable practitioner role in the IAM space.
- Deep technical credibility and domain expertise in SaaS infrastructure, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and modern Identity landscapes.
- Working proficiency in the following core IAM areas:
- Technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
- Legacy applications in a hybrid IT environment with non-standard applications (i.e. those that do not support modern identity federation protocols).
- Enterprise applications in the ecosystem to provide identity and attributes to applications or to harness an external application to help drive business processes (ITSM, HR, etc).
- SaaS deployment such as Salesforce, Box, Office 365, Workday and HR as master for identities.
- Lifecycle management scenarios to 3rd party systems and applications (Workflows, HR-driven provisioning, MSFT integrations, SCIM, etc).
- Security and performance monitoring, and 3rd party signals integrations (SEIM, MDM, WAF, etc).
- Clear engineering intuition to instantly distinguish a customer configuration gap from a core platform defect or a systemic load constraint like Requests Per Second (RPS) limits.
- Strong operational understanding of web-scale infrastructure dimensions including Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
- Proven product intuition with the ability to look at a chaotic customer environment, extract underlying technical friction, and translate it into a data-backed business case for Product Managers.
- Exceptional EQ and diplomatic skills to handle sensitive customer escalations, navigate a matrixed global organization without direct authority, and resolve cross-team friction.
- Builder mindset with a history of success turning unstructured, early-stage ambiguity into clean, repeatable systems, metrics, and processes.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to set expectations and communicate goals and objectives with customers at various levels, from a developer to a CIO.
- This position can be located remotely but may require some travel (under 20% of the time).
Education:
BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline OR equivalent work experience required.
COMPENSATION
- The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $160,000—$220,000 USD
The annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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.
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We 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
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.
Okta
The foundation for secure connections between people and technology
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
INTRODUCTION
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.
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology - anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transform how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Okta Technical Account Management:
Technical Account Management is a global team that partners with Okta’s Customer Success team and collaborates with Okta’s customers to share knowledge, best practices and make recommendations to continuously innovate around identity and security.
The Global New Product Introduction (NPI) Overlay Team functions as an elite squad acting as a crucial bridge between Pre-Sales, Product and our global TAM organization. We are Okta product experts, and we enable Okta's worldwide growth by establishing repeatable adoption patterns, driving early-stage readiness, and ensuring core TAM teams are programmatically equipped to realize technical value across our newest capabilities.
The Senior Technical Account Manager Opportunity:
A Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) - New Product Introduction (NPI) Specialist Overlay serves as a highly technical overlay resource designed to build the architectural blueprints for how Okta scales its newest and most complex capabilities. This role handles a crucial dual motion consisting of NPI via time-boxed, sprint-based engagements to establish repeatable adoption patterns, and Specialist Overlay via targeted interventions for existing product sets that show a deficit in market adoption. The overlay specialist steps into high-stakes, ambiguous technical environments, drives early-stage adoption, packages learnings into scalable systems, and exits cleanly so the broader global TAM organization can execute independently.
The TAM specialization requires an understanding of hybrid scenarios that capitalize on Okta’s ability to manage authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management capabilities for SaaS, on-premise, and custom enterprise applications.
You Will:
- Advise early-adopter customers on architectural best practices and product adoption during high-priority product launch windows.
- Operate within strict Rules of Engagement (ROE) where the Core TAM retains ultimate account ownership, proactively managing potential friction or overlapping responsibilities.
- Lead targeted, time-boxed technical sprints with high-value customers to bridge the technical value gap post-sale.
- Execute structured account handbacks to Core TAM teams using established transition and exit criteria once defined adoption thresholds or playbooks are met.
- Partner effectively with neighboring technical motions, such as the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, to align strategic customer roadmaps with product capability rollouts.
- Capture high-fidelity technical telemetry directly from early adopters, translating raw field friction into actionable, ARR-weighted product signals for Product Management and Engineering.
- Coordinate closely with Product Acceleration Team (PAT) specialists to smoothly transition technical workloads into the TAM organization.
- Evaluate early-stage software and co-author the operational "Go/No-Go" criteria that dictate when an NPI capability is ready for broad TAM support.
- Act as an elite response squad during high-priority NPI launches to prioritize accounts, absorb heavy technical workloads, and unburden core TAM teams during early performance regressions.
- Document repeatable adoption patterns, configuration models, and expansion triggers into structured engineering playbooks to move beyond 1:1 consulting deep dives.
- Partner directly with the TAM 1:Many / Knowledge Scaling function to design and deliver programmatic content, scaling your specialized expertise to make over 100+ global TAMs proficient in new solutions.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of total experience in information technology, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience as a Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or comparable practitioner role in the IAM space.
- Deep technical credibility and domain expertise in SaaS infrastructure, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and modern Identity landscapes.
- Working proficiency in the following core IAM areas:
- Technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
- Legacy applications in a hybrid IT environment with non-standard applications (i.e. those that do not support modern identity federation protocols).
- Enterprise applications in the ecosystem to provide identity and attributes to applications or to harness an external application to help drive business processes (ITSM, HR, etc).
- SaaS deployment such as Salesforce, Box, Office 365, Workday and HR as master for identities.
- Lifecycle management scenarios to 3rd party systems and applications (Workflows, HR-driven provisioning, MSFT integrations, SCIM, etc).
- Security and performance monitoring, and 3rd party signals integrations (SEIM, MDM, WAF, etc).
- Clear engineering intuition to instantly distinguish a customer configuration gap from a core platform defect or a systemic load constraint like Requests Per Second (RPS) limits.
- Strong operational understanding of web-scale infrastructure dimensions including Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
- Proven product intuition with the ability to look at a chaotic customer environment, extract underlying technical friction, and translate it into a data-backed business case for Product Managers.
- Exceptional EQ and diplomatic skills to handle sensitive customer escalations, navigate a matrixed global organization without direct authority, and resolve cross-team friction.
- Builder mindset with a history of success turning unstructured, early-stage ambiguity into clean, repeatable systems, metrics, and processes.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to set expectations and communicate goals and objectives with customers at various levels, from a developer to a CIO.
- This position can be located remotely but may require some travel (under 20% of the time).
Education:
BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline OR equivalent work experience required.
COMPENSATION
- The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $160,000—$220,000 USD
The annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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.
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We 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
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.
Okta
The foundation for secure connections between people and technology
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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Align your credentials to IAM specialization
Okta's Technical Architect roles require demonstrable expertise in identity and access management, not just general solutions architecture. Frame your resume around OAuth, SAML, SCIM, and Zero Trust implementations before you apply.
Target Okta's enterprise segment openings
Okta typically hires Technical Architects to support large enterprise and public sector clients. Openings tied to named account teams or vertical-specific practices are more likely to come with dedicated sponsorship budget and faster internal approvals.
Clarify your visa category with the recruiter early
Okta sponsors multiple visa categories for this role. Ask the recruiter explicitly which categories their current immigration counsel supports for Technical Architects, since H-1B cap timing and TN eligibility requirements differ significantly in process and timeline.
Build a specialty occupation case for your degree
USCIS scrutinizes H-1B petitions for architect roles that blend technical and strategic work. Document that your position requires a specific bachelor's degree field, not just any technical degree, to strengthen the specialty occupation argument your employer's attorney will make.
Start your job search on Migrate Mate
Filtering for Technical Architect roles at companies with active sponsorship history saves weeks of guesswork. Use Migrate Mate to identify Okta openings alongside verified sponsorship data so you apply where your visa type is already supported.
Sequence your F-1 OPT application before your start date
If you're transitioning from F-1 status, your OPT Employment Authorization Document must be approved and your start date must fall within your authorized employment window. USCIS recommends filing at least 90 days before your intended start date to avoid gaps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Okta sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Architects?
Yes, Okta sponsors H-1B visas for Technical Architect roles. Because the position qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS guidelines, H-1B is one of the primary pathways used. If you're subject to the annual cap, timing your application around the April lottery cycle is essential. Cap-exempt candidates, such as those transferring from a qualifying institution, may have more flexibility.
Which visa types does Okta commonly sponsor for Technical Architect roles?
Okta sponsors H-1B, TN visa, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, and employment-based Green Card categories including EB-2 and EB-3 for Technical Architect positions. TN visa is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying occupations. F-1 OPT and CPT are typically stepping stones before transitioning to H-1B. Green Card sponsorship through PERM labor certification usually begins after you've established yourself in the role.
What qualifications and experience does Okta expect for Technical Architect roles?
Okta's Technical Architect positions typically require several years of hands-on experience with identity platforms, enterprise integration, and customer-facing solution design. Familiarity with Okta's own product suite is a strong differentiator. Most postings expect experience with SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, and API-based integrations. A relevant bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field is standard, and certifications in cloud or identity platforms strengthen your profile.
How do I apply for Technical Architect jobs at Okta?
Browse current Technical Architect openings at Okta through Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles alongside sponsorship data so you can verify your visa type is supported before applying. When you apply directly, tailor your application to highlight IAM-specific experience and client-facing architecture work. During screening, confirm visa sponsorship with the recruiter and ask about their immigration counsel's timeline for your specific category.
How do I plan my timeline if Okta is filing an H-1B petition on my behalf?
H-1B cap-subject petitions must be filed in April for an October 1 start date. Work backward from there: your offer should be confirmed by February or March, giving your employer's attorney time to prepare the Labor Condition Application with DOL and complete the I-129 petition. If you're already in H-1B status and transferring, Okta can file a portability petition without waiting for the new cap cycle.