AI Trainer

Okta•2h ago

CanadaHybridFull-timeMid Level2+ yrs exp

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Ai Tutor

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.
The Team
You'll be joining our Okta Customer Acceleration organization, a high-impact team focused on defining and optimizing the self-service journey for our customers across Knowledge, Online Support
Communities. Our mission is to transform the customer experience by enabling efficient, accurate
engaging self-service solutions.
The Opportunity
We're looking for an experienced AI Trainer and Optimization Analyst to take full ownership of our customer support agentic experiences. This is a critical specialist role that offers the chance to directly influence millions of customer interactions annually.
You will act as the primary expert on the AI agent's performance, applying a strategic mindset to continuously analyze conversational data and leverage analytics to enhance the bot's ability. You will be responsible for:
Implementing prompt engineering best practices.
Ensuring the agent provides accurate, efficient, and on-brand support.
Managing the bot's tone and ethical guardrails to prevent hallucination and incorrect assumptions.
"Thinking bigger" to bring new, strategic ideas for leveraging the agentic experience for maximum customer impact.
What you’ll be doing
You will be the dedicated owner of the AI agent's conversational experience:
Own Conversational Quality & Tone: Act as the primary owner for the AI agent's output, managing the content, tone
ethical guardrails to ensure responses are accurate, on-brand
avoid inappropriate or incorrect assumptions and "hallucination."
Prompt Engineering & Training: Develop, test
deploy advanced prompt engineering techniques, training materials
conversational flows to enhance the AI agent's accuracy, intent recognition
overall effectiveness.
Performance Analysis & Optimization: Proactively monitor and analyze AI agent performance metrics, including deflection rates, resolution rates
customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores, translating data into actionable training and optimization plans.
Gap Identification & Remediation: Review and categorize high-volume AI conversations to identify new customer intents, common misclassifications, and critical content gaps in the knowledge base that require remediation.
Strategic Collaboration: Work closely with the Content, Knowledge
Customer Experience teams to understand common customer issues and translate those insights into strategic AI training plans, focusing on high-ticket volume areas.
Continuous Improvement: Maintain and update conversation scripts to reflect product and policy changes, and continuously identify and report on agent bugs, system gaps, and areas for potential escalation.
Thought Leadership: Stay current with the latest trends and technologies in conversational AI, machine learning, and prompt engineering, bringing new ideas and strategic proposals to the table.
What you’ll bring to the role
We are looking for a specialist who can operate with strong independence and act as a domain expert.
Deep Conversational AI Experience: Proven experience in a role involving AI training, prompt engineering, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
conversational design, specifically for customer support or enterprise service systems.
Analytical Rigor: Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret large sets of conversational data and performance metrics to draw meaningful, actionable insights for AI training and system tuning.
Platform Proficiency: Familiarity with major AI conversational platforms (e.g., Dialogflow, IBM Watson, Rasa, or similar enterprise-level tools).
Technical Communication: Excellent written communication skills, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to write clear, concise, and helpful responses that maintain a professional tone.
Ecosystem Understanding: Ability to understand the broader online customer support ecosystem, ensuring an integrated and seamless omnichannel experience when handing off between the bot and human agents.
Strategic Mindset: A proactive, problem-solving approach with the ability to "think bigger" and bring new, strategic ideas for leveraging the agentic experience for maximum customer impact.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications
experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus
benefits, including health, dental
vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine
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/can .
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$124,000 — $186,000 CAD
The Okta Experience
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Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity 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
status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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Required skills

AI trainingprompt engineeringNatural Language Processingconversational designanalyticsDialogflowIBM WatsonRasa