Documentation Tools Manager
Lead the Documentation Tools team at Okta, integrating AI to enhance productivity and mentoring engineers in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
30% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
You’ll lead the adoption of AI across your team’s day-to-day deliverables, integrating it thoughtfully to improve productivity.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Documentation Tools Manager at Okta leads a team of engineers focused on enhancing the help and developer content sites, integrating AI tools to boost productivity and quality. This role requires a strong background in software engineering, particularly with frontend technologies and CI/CD practices, along with experience in managing high-performing teams. Ideal candidates will have a passion for empowering engineers and a solid understanding of cloud services. The position is part of a collaborative environment that emphasizes innovation and connection.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Documentation Tools Manager role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bengaluru, India.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Documentation Tools Manager role.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in Bengaluru, India.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Artifactory, CircleCI, Claude, Codex, GitHub.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Documentation Tools Manager role at Okta.
From the original posting
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We are looking for a manager to lead the Documentation (Doc) Tools team supporting the Builder Experience department. Reporting to the Information Development Director, you will be leading a team of engineers who support the help.okta.com and developer.okta.com sites as well as the teams who contribute and create content for those sites (Information Development, Builder Advocacy, and Content Strategy).
What you’ll be doing
- Lead a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining the help.okta.com and developer.okta.com content sites.
- You’ll lead the adoption of AI across your team’s day-to-day deliverables, integrating it thoughtfully to improve your internal stakeholder’s productivity, quality, and speed.
- Work closely with the Doc Tools leads to develop and implement our roadmap.
- Recruit great engineers to accelerate our work.
- Mentor, retain, and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers.
- Establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
- Collaborate with the Doc Tools leads to assist in delivering projects on the Builder Experience roadmap.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Have managed software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack and production performance.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex and Claude, with the ability to integrate them effectively into day-to-day engineering workflows.
- Are excited to build an amazing product - and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers.
- Are familiar with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, CircleCI, Vercel and Artifactory.
- Have successfully built high-performing engineering teams.
- Have opinions on topics like build tooling, CI/CD pipelines and technical debt.
- Are comfortable leading geographically distributed teams.
- Thrive on autonomy, and use it to get stuff done.
Desired knowledge
- Experience working with a documentation team.
- Knowledge of DITA, documentation tools, and writer processes.
- Localization experience.
Required education and experience:
- 10+ years of experience as an engineer with significant frontend experience.
- 3+ years of experience building and leading a team of engineers.
- Deep understanding of at least 1 major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- 3+ years of technical management experience.
- Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent
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