Director of Engineering, AI Takeoff Team

Bellevue💼 Full-time💰 $246,000–$246,000🗓 2026-09-19 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the AI Takeoff Team to rapidly translate customer needs into differentiated AI capabilities and deliver them to production for Okta's identity and AI security platform.

Role type

Senior engineering leader (Director)

Builds

Rapidly validated AI solutions and production-ready capabilities for the Okta platform

Domain

Identity security, AI/ML systems, enterprise infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Engineering leadership, team management, executive communication, customer engagement, identity protocols expertise, high-velocity execution, technical strategy, architecture design

Preferred skills

AI/agentic systems experience, AI security knowledge, emerging identity patterns

Technologies

Identity protocols, AI/ML frameworks, enterprise security architectures

Responsibilities

Translate customer needs into AI capabilities, partner with Product/Design for production readiness, build and mentor a small autonomous team, serve as technical SME in sales/evaluations, lead complex customer escalations, own technical strategy and roadmap execution

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with team leadership

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