Product Architect, AI (Auth0)

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.Get to know OktaOkta 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 Auth0, an Okta company, we help organizations build secure, seamless customer experiences. As AI agents become active participants in software systems (acting on behalf of people, organizations, and other agents) identity becomes even more foundational. We are building for a future where agents can securely authenticate, access resources, delegate authority, and operate within clear, auditable boundaries.We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.The OpportunityWe are looking for a Product Architect, AI to help define how Auth0 and Okta lead the market in agentic identity, secure AI application development, and standards-based access for agents.This is a senior, highly strategic, and deeply hands-on role. You will work across Product, Engineering, Security, Developer Relations, Design, Go-to-Market, and our customer community to shape the technical and product direction for AI-native identity capabilities.You will bring a strong point of view on where the industry is going, grounded in real experience building AI-powered and agentic systems. You will help us translate fast-moving technical developments (including MCP, A2A, agentic commerce, delegated authorization, and emerging agent identity standards) into secure, practical product capabilities that customers can adopt with confidence.This role is for someone who enjoys moving between strategy and implementation: setting a long-term vision, designing platform primitives, engaging directly with customers and partners, contributing to standards and open source communities, and occasionally writing production-quality code or prototypes to prove what is possible.What you'll be doing * Define and evolve Auth0's strategy for building, operating, and securing AI agents and agentic applications. * Shape the product and technical strategy for agentic identity, including how agents authenticate, receive delegated authority, access resources, establish trust, and maintain auditable boundaries. * Define approaches for securely exposing protected resources (including APIs, tools, data services, and MCP servers) to authorized agents. * Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders to turn strategic opportunities into clear product bets, architectural principles, product requirements, and durable platform capabilities. * Help design and, where valuable, implement core identity capabilities that enable secure agent-to-resource and agent-to-agent interactions. * Develop an informed perspective on emerging technologies and standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent protocols, agentic commerce, AAuth, authorization frameworks, workload identity, and related specifications. * Deep curiosity and a disciplined approach to staying ahead of the AI landscape, including foundation models, agent harnesses, AI frameworks, orchestration tools, evaluation and observability platforms, and rapidly evolving developer practices. You can distinguish durable shifts from short-lived hype and articulate their implications for customers, developers, and Auth0's pr