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Senior Manager, Learning & Development - APJ

Okta

Okta

Sydney, NSW, Australia · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jun 13, 2025

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s 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 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.

In this role, you will drive organizational capability through the delivery of talent development and experience solutions. You will consult with internal partners on development needs of their business area and develop and implement solutions that elevate culture, transfer knowledge, change behavior and enhance employee performance and engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to be a change agent across the organization. The successful candidate will have experience designing, facilitating, implementing and managing learning programs including end to end program management.

What you’ll be doing

Results

  • Identify organizational needs based on multiple inputs to align with development efforts.
  • Designing, launching, improving, and scaling learning and development experiences including content and curriculum as well as resources for critical teams
  • Using a consultative, inquiry-based approach that digs beneath what the leader and team may want and also helps them determine what they need to build a high-performing team
  • Manage development programs end to end, establishing processes to streamline and methods to evaluate success
  • Design and support team performance experiences and business offsite events as needed.
  • Lead organizational and team diagnostics, identify interventions, establish key success metrics and goals, design and deliver solutions
  • Understand the business environment, company strategy and organizational goals and deliver team and organization performance initiatives that accelerate achievement of business strategy and goals
  • Establish communication and scaling plans, and iterate on experiences based on customer feedback
  • Effectively manage a small team while providing local leadership and cross-functional guidance; oversee execution amid shifting priorities and support team development through coaching and mentorship.

Relationships

  • Thrive in a fast-moving environment with the ability to prioritize work while still maintaining positive relationships
  • Maintain senior stakeholder relationships, manage relationships with external consultants and vendors, partner with internal subject matter experts, PBPs, and key stakeholders
  • Influence across multiple teams and groups without direct authority, collaborating to identify solutions that achieve shared results
  • Navigate cross-cultural dynamics with sensitivity and effectiveness, adapting engagement approaches to different regional contexts.
  • Balance remit of working with global talent development and experience team and local needs and requirements.

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • 10+ years of learning and development experience, including analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation
  • Experience working in the technology industry & working remotely to HQ, as well as working across multiple countries and cultures within the APJ region.
  • Facilitation skills, with an ability to adapt content and conversations to meet the unique needs of your audience, this includes in-person and live Zoom facilitation
  • Experience creating and delivering programs to develop manager and leader capabilities through formal and informal methods, this includes coaching, mentoring, etc
  • Executive individual and team coaching experience with certifications preferred

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:
  • Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
  • Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
  • Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
  • Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
  • Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

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.

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.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.