Senior Program Manager, AI Strategy for Customer Success

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As a Senior Customer Success AI Initiatives Manager. This role is for a hands-on builder and problem-solver who can translate complex customer challenges into tangible, AI-driven solutions. You will be responsible for defining, developing, and deploying high-impact initiatives that directly improve our customer success productivity, operational scale, and overall customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Ownership: Serve as a ‘product owner’, managing the full lifecycle of your assigned initiatives from ideation to launch and optimization.
• Use Case Development: Work with Customer Success Leaders to identify pain points and define/prioritize high-value use cases for AI.
• Execution & Deployment: Partner closely with Operations to define requirements, test new solutions, and evaluate/provide input into AI vendors and tools that fit the Customer Success team’s use cases. 

AI Adoption: Champion adoption and change management of AI initiatives through internal communications. Partner closely with enablement and ops on rollout plans.

• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as the ‘voice of the customer’ when thinking about how we leverage AI in customer interactions or ‘voice of the customer success’ in regards to initiatives aimed at increasing employee productivity.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: A proven track record in a role, with a strong understanding of the customer lifecycle (e.g., onboarding, adoption, renewal). Including having experience with a customer-facing role.
• Analytical Skills: The ability to use data and user feedback to prioritize initiatives, define success metrics, and report on impact.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and lead without direct authority.
• Technical Aptitude: A strong understanding of AI concepts and tooling, plus a passion for technology, with the ability to bridge the gap between business problems and technical solutions.
• A “Human + AI” Mindset: A commitment to building solutions that empower CSM/TAMs and enhance their ability to deliver value, not replace them.

Why You’ll Love This Role

This is an opportunity to directly shape the future of customer success at Okta. You’ll work on groundbreaking projects that have a tangible impact on our business, and see your work adopted by hundreds of customer success professionals.

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $179,000—$269,000 USD

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:$160,000—$240,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

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

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