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Requirements found
Sales Marketing Budgeting Onboarding (must)
What this posting asks for
Level: Manager — The title says "Manager".
Main responsibilities
- Vision and strategy: Set a 1–2 year vision for free trial growth across Okta and Auth0. Find new ways to meet trial goals, such as interactive experiences an…
- Roadmap and OKRs: Turn company goals into OKRs and align a roadmap the team can execute.
- Free trial experience: Improve the trial sign-up funnel, drive trial awareness, and build activation levers behind it.
- Growth and experimentation: Take each problem from diagnosis to hypothesis, test, and launch. Design and analyze experiments with support from optimization a…
- Research Personas: Lead research on how prospects and specific personas evaluate trials, where they drop off, and when they ask for sales help.
- Customer journey: Map the full journey, including the handoffs other teams own. Use the findings to set priorities across Digital, Product, and GTM.
- Cross-functional influence: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, Marketing, Support, and partners on the parts of the journey…
- Resourcing and tradeoffs: Make resourcing and tradeoff decisions without budget authority. Present them to senior leadership.
- Program build: Define processes, priorities, and KPIs for the program's stage and initiatives. Set up the planning, review, and reporting rhythms it needs to…
- AI-first ways of working: Use AI in research, analysis, experimentation, and content. Explore AI-driven trial improvements, such as guided setup, with the Pr…
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Customer focus Core
In the posting: “Each one lets prospects and customers explore our products before they buy.” · “Customer journey: Map the full journey, including the handoffs other teams own.” · “Cross-functional influence: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, Marketing, Support, and partners on the parts of the journey…”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.” · “This is an individual contributor role focused on building the program and identifying free trial journeys from the ground up, including its processes, prior…” · “Use the findings to set priorities across Digital, Product, and GTM.”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Data and analysis Core
In the posting: “This is an individual contributor role focused on building the program and identifying free trial journeys from the ground up, including its processes, prior…” · “Design and analyze experiments with support from optimization and personalization managers.” · “Program build: Define processes, priorities, and KPIs for the program's stage and initiatives.”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “You'll lead the self-serve sign-up experience that Digital runs and influence the parts of the journey other teams own, including product handoffs, lifecycle…” · “Cross-functional influence: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, Marketing, Support, and partners on the parts of the journey…” · “Cross-team alignment: You have a record of aligning teams you don't manage.”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior. - Problem solving Core
In the posting: “This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes.” · “Growth and experimentation: Take each problem from diagnosis to hypothesis, test, and launch.”
Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix. - Ownership and accountability Core
In the posting: “8+ years of product management , growth program ownership, self-serve, or product-led funnels.” · “Self-starter ownership: You work well on your own, decide with incomplete information, and move fast.”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it. - Adaptability and learning Core
In the posting: “AI fluency: You use AI tools in your work and are curious about applying them to the product.” · “In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, an…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted. - Technical skill Supporting
In the posting: “Cross-functional influence: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, Marketing, Support, and partners on the parts of the journey…”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Teamwork and collaboration Supporting
In the posting: “Cross-functional influence: Work with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, Marketing, Support, and partners on the parts of the journey…”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Leadership and mentoring Supporting
In the posting: “Present them to senior leadership.”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them. - Attention to detail and quality Supporting
In the posting: “Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (8):
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you used data or numbers to make a decision. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to get agreement from people who wanted different things. From this posting
- How have you used onboarding in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using sales. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- This posting reads as Software engineering: its questions come first.
- Tell me about the hardest bug you have tracked down. How did you find the cause? Software engineering
- Describe a technical design decision you made and the trade-off behind it. Software engineering
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate in a code review. Software engineering
- Production is down and you are the first engineer to notice. What do you do in the first 30 minutes? Software engineering
- How do you decide what to test before you ship a change? Software engineering
- Walk me through a feature you built from start to finish. What tools and languages did you use? Software engineering
- Tell me about a time you helped a less experienced engineer get unstuck. Software engineering
- Your estimate for a feature turns out to be badly wrong halfway through. What do you do? Software engineering
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.

