Workforce Planning Business Partner

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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 be responsible for supporting Okta’s strategic and operational Workforce Planning processes and capabilities. As a business partner, you will work across Okta’s operations, finance, and people teams on Okta’s headcount-to-hire processes, including headcount planning and position distribution, as well as workforce and location strategy. You will help ensure that members of our workforce are accurately tracked and assigned to the right jobs and positions. You will partner closely with our People Analytics team and drive talent assessments and workforce reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with people, operations, and finance partners to handle large re-orgs and sensitive transactions and ensure data is accurately updated in Workday
• Acts as a business partner to cross-functional leaders and hiring managers during our annual planning process and when adjustments to plan are needed
• Functions as a process improvement expert who is continually looking to identify and improve Workforce Planning processes and systems
• Collaborates with operations, finance, and people teams on the planning, allocation, and tracking of our headcount and positions
• Partner and educate operations, finance and people business partners on Workforce Planning best practices, influencing process changes in support of consistency and scalability
• Troubleshoots technical and operational issues with our integrated headcount-to-hire process
• Leads ad-hoc Workforce Planning projects and initiatives
• Leads or supports talent assessments to analyze talent markets for new location expansion
• Works closely with our operations and technology teams to ensure headcount and position data are reflected accurately in Workday
• Monitors position transactions and org structure to ensure alignment across people, finance, and operations systems and teams

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or related work experience
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience within Workforce Planning, Project Management and/or Management Consulting (HR/Workforce Planning projects a plus)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Workday and Greenhouse (or other applicant tracking systems)
• Ability to logically and efficiently structure ambiguous problems, identify sources of data, conduct complicated analysis, identify key insights and recommended actions
• Experience with both headcount planning, allocation, and ongoing resource management
• Proficient in auditing and maintaining large data sets using googlesheets and/or excel

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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:

$122,000—$165,000 USD

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$135,000—$182,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

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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/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action 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 participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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