Director, Okta Threat Intelligence

Okta is the World’s Identity Company.

Okta’s workforce and customer identity platforms are trusted to secure access to resources for workforce users, partners and end customers.

As a trusted supplier to some of the world’s most critical organizations, Okta is uniquely positioned to understand the threat environment.

Okta Threat Intelligence is the capability within Okta that delivers timely insights to customers that are both highly relevant and actionable, and that contribute to public conversations about identity-based attacks. Our research reinforces customer confidence in Okta’s best-in-class security capabilities.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual contributor to work at the intersection of identity-based attacks and agentic AI.

The successful candidate requires strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as cyber domain knowledge.

Core Responsibilities

• Gather intelligence requirements from multiple stakeholders
• Collaborate with product engineering and security teams to anonymize, aggregate and derive threat-related insights from platform data
• Identify and research emerging or novel identity-based threats in order to produce actionable intelligence for customers and the broader community
• Coordinate the distribution of finished intelligence, seeking new and creative ways of making our insights more accessible and actionable for customers and partners
• Brief Okta’s strategic customers about the threat environment, and handle inbound inquiries where required
• Measure the impact of intelligence and analysis products on customer adoption and secure configuration

What does it take?

You lead by example and influence. The most creative and technically gifted people in the room want to work with you and for you.

You’re a team player. You prefer to work in a team where every colleague rolls up their sleeves and contributes equally.

You have great communications skills