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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.
The Technical Curriculum Manager plays a key role in designing and developing innovative training that facilitates Auth0 and Okta product adoption. You will lead a team of technical curriculum developers and technical writers in creating innovative on-demand training, interactive hands-on labs, instructor-led course materials, skill badge assessments, and technical guides.
Your proven success in managing a high-performance team to deliver engaging, effective technical training content in a timely manner is critical. Prior experience in delivering complex courseware for a software developer audience is highly desirable. To succeed in this position, you will be flexible and focus on continuous improvement. We thrive as a team at Okta and expect this role to exemplify our core values of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and integrity.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the content development from intake through project delivery. This includes resource project prioritization across concurrent projects to balance resource usage.
- Partner with subject matter experts and stakeholders to facilitate communication on roadmaps, milestones, and metrics.
- Ensure that content meets quality standards. Coach team members as needed.
- Ensure that course collateral, metadata, and marketing material are reviewed, handed off, archived, and regularly audited according to operating standards.
- Monitor product roadmaps and customer feedback to determine update cadence.
- Develop and lead a values-driven, inclusive team culture that strives to innovate and continuously improve to drive measurable outcomes in all aspects of our work.
- Ensure alignment between individual performance and team, business unit, and company objectives. Provide coaching, career development opportunities, and performance management to meet objectives.
- Collaborate within the customer success team to deliver on shared goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a related field, or equivalent.
- 3-5+ years as a manager of curriculum development:
- Consistent track record of building high-performance teams who deliver quality projects on time.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a wide range of audiences and build relationships across all lines of business.
- Experience with Agile content development methodology is a plus.
- 5+ years of technical curriculum development experience, preferably for a software developer audience.
- Deep understanding of learning experience design for customer-facing on-demand training that includes video and hands-on labs.
- Strong knowledge of content development tools and LMS systems.
- Experience with AI development tools is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with data analysis and reporting for learning metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible in taking on any challenge and changing directions if needed.
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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
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! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some 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.
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Okta gives you a neutral, powerful and extensible platform that puts identity at the heart of your stack. No matter what industry, use case, or level of support you need, we’ve got you covered.
