Okta
Technology
SeniorManager,AIForwardDeployedEngineering-OktaforAIAgents
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“Senior Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering - Okta for AI Agents at Okta. Skills: AI Agents, Identity management, Forward Deployed Engineering. Build and lead team. Hire engineers”
What You'll Achieve.
Agents in production; Security reviews passed; AI governance requirements met; Posture and inventory visibility online
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
35% travel, On-call load
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years managing engineers, Ability to travel 35%, Ship production software, Review and write agent identity code, Own an architecture, Earn a principal engineer’s respect, Working command of OAuth 2.0, Working command of OIDC, Working command of RFC 8693 token exchange, Working command of agentic identity problem, Steady when account politics get sharp, Credible with senior engineers and executives, Work with sales, product, and engineering leadership, Turn field signal into roadmap influence, Comfortable standing up new function, Own outcomes end to end
Nice to Have
International travel
What You'll Do.
Deliver hands-on code
Own agent identity delivery
Write production code
Own kill-switch design
Lead from inside work
Set standard for team
Define engagement model
Embed FDEs in accounts
Move agents prototype to production
Ensure identity coverage
Ensure clean security review
Be accountable for outcomes
Ensure agents in production
Meet AI governance requirements
Ensure posture visibility
Ensure inventory visibility
Aggregate agent identity gaps
Provide input to roadmap
Coach on hard accounts
Navigate architecture review boards
Navigate security councils
Navigate CISO conversations
Partner with solutions engineering
Partner with customer success
Partner with professional services
Ensure FDE engagements scale
Represent function to leadership
Brief Chief AI Officer audiences
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Product leadership; Engineering leadership; Sales; Solutions engineering; Customer success; Professional services; Senior leadership
Communication Scope
Customer standup; CISO briefing; Executive presentations
Process & Methodology
Capacity planning
Full Job Description
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. About Okta for AI Agents Okta secures access for 20,000 organizations and billions of users. Okta for AI Agents extends that work to the agentic shift. Deploying an AI agent is not like deploying traditional software. You are putting professional work output into production, and it needs deep integration, continuous tuning, and change management. Every agent needs an identity, a scope, an audit trail, and a way to be shut down when it goes wrong. Most enterprises have not built this yet. We are. We hire builders who see the cracks in enterprise agent identity that everyone else has learned to live with, and we hire leaders who can turn a handful of those builders into a function. The Role You build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering team for Okta for AI Agents. Your engineers embed inside Okta’s most strategic enterprise customers and own the technical outcome for agent identity from prototype to production. You own the team that makes those deployments succeed, the engagement model behind them, and the loop that turns what the field learns into Okta’s product. You are a player-coach in the truest sense. You lead a team of five Senior and Principal Forward Deployed Engineers, and you carry your own delivery alongside them: you personally own the agent identity outcome in one of our most strategic accounts, hands-on in the IDE and in the architecture room. You are the role model for the role, the bar your engineers measure themselves against in techni
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