Senior People Consultant

The role

The Senior People Consultant leads complex advisory cases by providing advanced coaching to managers and senior leaders. This role addresses sensitive leadership, performance, and organizational challenges while improving AI-enabled support and team effectiveness.

What you will do

• Provide advanced coaching to managers and senior leaders on leadership, development, and performance.
• Lead assessment and resolution of highly ambiguous or sensitive cases.
• Guide leaders through resistance, difficult conversations, and high-impact decisions.
• Exercise advanced judgment and follow escalation pathways to specialized teams.
• Strengthen team capability through peer coaching and case reviews.
• Analyze recurring case patterns to improve AI resources, workflows, and knowledge content.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a Master’s degree, in Human Resources, HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, management consulting, leader
• Ability to independently lead and resolve highly complex, ambiguous advisory cases.
• Experience advising senior leaders on sensitive leadership, performance, team effectiveness, and organizational challenges.
• Exceptional coaching, communication, influencing, and conflict resolution skills.
• Deep understanding of leadership effectiveness, organizational dynamics, performance management, conflict resolution, risk assessment, and escalation practices.
• Ability to develop colleagues through peer coaching, case consultation, knowledge sharing, or reusable advisory frameworks.
• Experience evaluating or improving AI-enabled workflows, automated guidance, knowledge resources, or digital service capabilities.

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the company

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The Manager Success team helps managers lead effective teams through an AI-first support model.