Staff Agile Program Manager, Emerging Products

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Agile Program Manager, Emerging Products

We are looking for an experienced Agile Program Manager (APM) to support the Auth0 Emerging Products organization. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will help to shape the future of our product portfolio by owning delivery execution across multiple teams, and ensuring predictability, risk mitigation, and outcome alignment at scale.

The ideal candidate thrives in complex technical environments, can orchestrate cross-team work with clarity and agility, and brings strong stakeholder management skills to help teams deliver consistent, high-value outcomes and drive innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning, prioritization, and execution of feature delivery across multiple teams
• Ensure cross-functional coordination for dependencies, timelines, and deliverables across teams. Track action items and facilitate timely completion.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks, blockers, and communication gaps; surface critical issues and drive alignment.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with engineering, product, and technical program managers to ensure consistent and effective delivery
• Provide clear and consistent status updates to stakeholders, focusing on delivery milestones, risks, and dependencies. Support the maintenance of Jira data to enable accurate reporting.
• Enable value flow visibility using delivery metrics (e.g., carryover, WIP, forecast accuracy); partner with engineering to drive continuous improvement and take action on lessons learned.
• Facilitate or support core agile practices including backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and quarterly planning to improve delivery health and scope alignment.

Skills And Experience

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Agile Program Management or similar role in an enterprise SaaS company.
• Proven ability to manage complex technical programs involving multiple teams and diverse stakeholders
• Experience supporting development teams delivering scalable features on complex, distributed systems
• Skilled in cross-functional communication, risk management, and facilitating delivery alignment in fast-paced agile environments.
• Proficient with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and the use of delivery dashboards and metrics to drive visibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience launching and scaling innovative features as part of a large technology company.
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts such as authentication, authorization, and SSO

Ability to analyze and interpret delivery metrics to guide teams toward more predictable and mature execution.

"This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office during the first week of employment."

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, 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: https://rewards.okta.com/us.   

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$150,000—$226,000 USD

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Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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