Product Architect, AI (Auth0)

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. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Okta is The Worlds Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology anywhere on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access authentication and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Auth0 an Okta company we help organizations build secure seamless customer experiences. As AI agents become active participants in software systems (acting on behalf of people organizations and other agents) identity becomes even more foundational. We are building for a future where agents can securely authenticate access resources delegate authority and operate within clear auditable boundaries.

Were building a world where Identity belongs to you.

We are looking for a Product Architect AI to help define how Auth0 and Okta lead the market in agentic identity secure AI application development and standards-based access for agents.

This is a senior highly strategic and deeply hands-on role. You will work across Product Engineering Security Developer Relations Design Go-to-Market and our customer community to shape the technical and product direction for AI-native identity capabilities.

You will bring a strong point of view on where the industry is going grounded in real experience building AI-powered and agentic systems. You will help us translate fast-moving technical developments (including MCP A2A agentic commerce delegated authorization and emerging agent identity standards) into secure practical product capabilities that customers can adopt with confidence.

This role is for someone who enjoys moving between strategy and implementation: setting a long-term vision designing platform primitives engaging directly with customers and partners contributing to standards and open source communities and occasionally writing production-quality code or prototypes to prove what is possible.

• Define and evolve Auth0s strategy for building operating and securing AI agents and agentic applications.
• Shape the product and technical strategy for agentic identity including how agents authenticate receive delegated authority access resources establish trust and maintain auditable boundaries.
• Define approaches for securely exposing protected resources (including APIs tools data services and MCP servers) to authorized agents.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to turn strategic opportunities into clear product bets architectural principles product requirements and durable platform capabilities.
• Help design and where valuable implement core identity capabilities that enable secure agent-to-resource and agent-to-agent interactions.
• Develop an informed perspective on emerging technologies and standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) agent-to-agent protocols agentic commerce AAuth authorization frameworks workload identity and related specifications.
• Deep curiosity and a disciplined approach to staying ahead of the AI landscape including foundation models agent harnesses AI frameworks orchestration tools evaluation and observability platforms and rapidly evolving developer practices. You can distinguish durable shifts from short-lived hype and articulate their implications for customers developers and Auth0s product strategy.
• Identify important industry shifts early assess their implications for customers and the identity ecosystem and communicate a clear point of view internally and externally.
• Work directly with strategic customers to understand their AI and identity architectures uncover unmet needs validate product direction and help them build securely.
• Collaborate with Security Legal Privacy and Trust teams to ensure that AI-related identity capabilities are secure responsible compliant and usable in real-world enterprise environments.
• Represent Auth0 and Okta in the developer and identity communities through technical content speaking engagements customer conversations standards participation and open-source engagement.
• Build prototypes reference implementations and technical demonstrations using technologies such as React Python and Go.
• Partner with Developer Relations and Go-to-Market teams to make complex identity and AI concepts approachable for developers architects customers and partners.
• Raise the technical bar across the organization by mentoring others documenting architectural patterns and creating clarity in an evolving technical landscape.

• Significant experience in product architecture technical product management software architecture platform engineering developer platforms or a similarly customer- and technology-facing leadership role.
• Experience building and shipping AI-powered applications agentic systems developer tools or platforms used by developers to build them.
• Deep expertise in modern identity and authorization standards especially OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect workload identity token exchange delegated authorization API authorization and related identity protocols.
• A strong understanding of how to securely design access to APIs tools data and services in distributed systems.
• Practical familiarity with the emerging agent ecosystem including MCP agent-to-agent interactions tool invocation AI application architectures and the evolving questions around agent identity authorization delegation consent intent and auditability.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a strategy in ambiguous quickly evolving markets and turn it into concrete product and technical decisions.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers developers and partners to solve complex technical problems and influence product direction.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain deeply technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• A strong external presence in relevant technical communities through speaking standards work open-source contributions technical writing or other visible contributions.
• Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor across organizational boundaries influencing without direct authority and driving alignment among diverse stakeholders.
• Strong software development skills and comfort writing code in one or more of React Python or Go.

• Experience contributing to or participating in identity security AI or agent-related standards organizations and open-source projects.
• Experience designing developer-facing authentication authorization API security or identity platform products.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS B2B platforms consumer-facing applications or both.
• Experience with authorization policy systems fine-grained authorization consent entitlements and delegated access models.
• Experience building or operating MCP servers AI agent platforms AI-enabled workflows or agent-to-agent systems.
• Experience with cloud security workload identity zero trust API gateways service-to-service authorization or secure software supply chains.
• A track record of helping organizations navigate major platform shifts such as cloud mobile API-first development or AI.
• A pragmatic approach to innovation: excitement about emerging technology paired with a clear understanding of security customer value operational realities and adoption barriers.

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection
• Promoting Work-Life Flexibility and Inclusivity

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment providing the best tools technology and benefits to empower employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.

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