Senior Project Manager, Public Sector

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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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.
Job purpose:
Okta’s projects, like our Identity services, connect people and technology and require the project manager to actively participate in setting a standard of excellence focused on time-to-value. As project manager at Okta, you will lead complex identity access management (IAM) projects using your professional services expertise. You will primarily be focused on initiating, planning, scheduling, forecasting, and providing oversight to the work of assigned professional services (PS) team members. This includes being a liaison between the customer and all other project stakeholders. You act as a leader for the project as you influence the best performance of the project team.
As a Project Manager you are critical to the overall management of projects delivered by the services team. You will be collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams both internally and externally with our customers, while demonstrating a strong commitment to assigned project goals.
Your success in this role requires strong leadership for leading the delivery of projects in accordance to strict project deadlines, within budget, and demonstrated value of services. You have a strong technical project management background with very strong communication and coordination skills.
At Okta professional services our vision focuses on time-to-value for our customers with a key focus on customer success. Under the supervision of Delivery Managers and Regional Directors our Project Managers play a vital role in delivering the Okta services in a dynamic and high paced environment. We at Okta are Always On with a real passion for Customer Success and our Professional Services team ensures our customers achieve the best and the fastest value possible.
Duties and responsibilities:

• Successfully leads the entire project delivery lifecycle while ensuring customer success.
• Manages several projects simultaneously in alignment with Okta’s professional services project portfolio.
• Demonstrated resilience, tact, influence, and problem-solving skills in a variety of complex situations.
• Administers formal change control in accordance to any changes in scope, time, and cost.
• Employ scope, time, cost, resource, communication, and risk management.
• Partners with cross-functional teams at Okta to ensure project and customer success.
• Identify customer opportunities to position the sale of other desired services.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4 years of dynamically responsible experience in project management.
• Relevant combination of education and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform leading projects.
• Hands-on solid track record in successfully leading the delivery of projects for multiple clients/customers.
• Consulting services experience working with strong matrix management skills and ability to work collaboratively.
• Expertise in project management, business analysis, software delivery lifecycle, and SaaS.
• Demonstrated leader, who is self-motivated, flexible, enthusiastic and organized.
• Experience in risk identification, assessment of unintended effects of project changes, and risk avoidance or mitigation.
• Project Management professional certification or another relevant accreditation strongly preferred.
• Applied understanding of SaaS delivery concepts and familiarity of IAM.
• Ability to travel up to 25% at times.
  

Requirements:

• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above required.
• This role requires you to be onsite at the customer, so you must be located within 50 miles of Okta's Washington D.C. office.
  

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, 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. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:
$133,000—$199,000 USD
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
  

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
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.
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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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