Senior Director, R&D Planning & Operations

• 12+ years of work experience, including 6+ years leading business operations, R&D / engineering operations, or FP&A functions within a technology company.
• Demonstrated ownership of an engineering or R&D budget at scale — annual planning, in-year governance, variance management, and executive budget review.
• Proven ownership of workforce planning and headcount governance in close partnership with Recruiting and Finance.
• Experience managing a vendor portfolio, including contract negotiation and renewal, SLA management, and capacity planning.
• Hands-on experience with Capitalized Software accounting and R&D tax credit programs in the US and/or Canada.
• Strong understanding of B2B SaaS business models and engineering cost structures.
• Track record of building and developing high-performing operations teams, including hiring and developing Director-level leaders.
• Extensive experience navigating complex data sets and operating with ambiguity, where clean data is not available.
• Demonstrated use of AI to do the substance of finance and operations work — analysis, reporting, dashboard generation and workflow automation — with a clear point of view on where to apply it next.

• Experience operating across multiple product units or post-acquisition entities with distinct financial and operational systems.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, or comparable experience building financial data platforms and self-service reporting.
• Experience modeling or governing consumption-based spend, such as cloud infrastructure or AI / LLM token usage.
• Experience with global workforce and location strategy, including India-based engineering centers.
• Understanding of the B2B enterprise technology space, specifically Enterprise Security.
• Experience running an annual goal-setting or OKR process for a technology organization, including the review cadence that tracks progress against it.
• Prior experience in FP&A, management consulting, or a central strategy and operations function.
• MBA, or an undergraduate degree with a concentration in Finance, Economics, Statistics or Engineering.

• There is no citizenship requirement. The Okta employee must be on US Soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101

P7363

• Own the full financial and workforce operating infrastructure for a 2,000+ person R&D organization at a category-defining security company.
• Rare breadth of charter: FinOps, workforce operations and vendor operations, across an at scale SaaS R&D organization.
• A genuinely new problem to own: defining how a 2,000+ person R&D organization budgets for, measures the return on, and optimizes its AI spend.
• Direct line of sight into executive decision making — your models and plans are the basis on which R&D investment is allocated.
• High degree of autonomy to shape the R&D operating model rather than inherit it.
• Strong executive sponsorship from Okta's product and engineering leadership team.

• Supporting Your Well-Being 
• Driving Social Impact 
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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.

Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.