Day in the Life

No organization grows successfully without great talent. To acquire a world-class team, you need to have a strong group of people recruiting them. At Okta, our recruiters have developed our team of builders and owners who embody our core values and power our growth. Brett Coin leads the charge as Okta’s Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition…

Lauren Wagner, senior manager of marketing technology and operations, leads one of the most cross-functional teams in Okta’s marketing organization. In this edition of the Day in the Life series, learn how Lauren empowers her team and the marketing organization to bring systems to life. How did you find out about Okta? At my last company we used…

From presentations to campaigns and okta.com to events, Okta’s brand design team is everywhere, touching many projects across many teams. In this edition of the Day in the Life series, Jane Johnson, head of brand design, shares her experience transitioning into tech and leading a small but mighty in-house team. How did you find out about Okta?…

As we continue to bask in the warm sunshine, it’s only a matter of time before the summer officially comes to an end. We wanted to wrap up the season by highlighting our amazing group of summer Okterns (Okta interns) before they head back to school. Here’s how the Summer Oktern Class of 2019 launched their careers with Okta: How did you find out…

From San Francisco to Sydney, Megan Peters, senior manager, APAC sales development, is bringing her sales expertise all over the world (and writing about her travels, too). Read this edition of the Day in the Life series to learn more about how Megan works tirelessly across time zones to make her people successful. How did you find out about Okta…

In just over a year, Toni Redman, director of sales development, EMEA, has increased the sales development representative (SDR) + business development representative (BDR) team to twenty, introduced the first year-long sales internship program in EMEA, and even had three of her team members finalists at the Women in Sales awards Europe. Read on to…

Ever received an email from Okta or attended an Okta-hosted event in EMEA? Chances are Myriah Thompson, regional marketing manager at Okta, was behind it. Myriah is responsible for creating demand through strategic programs throughout the EMEA region. Read on to see how she does it and get a peek into #lifeatOkta in our London office! How did you…

Customer success is one of our core values at Okta -- it's at the heart of everything we do. No one knows that better than our dedicated customer success managers. Being able to work, communicate, and problem solve with our customers all day, everyday, is what drives enterprise customer success manager, Scott Campbell. Early mornings and long…

June is a big month for Okta. It’s when we get the results of Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide (spoiler alert: we’re a Leader, again). It also marks Pride month for the LGBTQ+ community. In addition to “pride-i-fying” our social profiles, our employee resource group, Pride@Okta, helps the company come together to…

Sara Daqiq, a developer support engineer, is a relentless problem solver in all senses of the word. In her day-to-day, she recreates issues to solve problems customers are facing in custom integrations in what she describes as a “beautiful intersection of soft skills and hard skills”. But beyond that, she is dedicated to solving even bigger…