Vijay Rao

Chief People & Places Officer Okta

Vijay Rao is the Chief People & Places Officer at Okta, Inc. and has been a leader in building and growing people and shared services functions for over 25 years. Vijay has built and scaled diverse and inclusive teams which have innovated world class People processes and systems for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Vijay is a strengths-based leader and coach leveraging a unique blend of strategic thinking, people and business acumen, and technical skills. Prior to this role, Vijay was SVP, People, leading several of the people teams focusing on the attraction and retention of talent, employee engagement, and scaling of processes and systems during Okta’s growth from 2,000 to over 6,000+ employees. Prior to Okta, Vijay built and drove the strategy and execution for Meta’s Global People Operations function, scaling the team from 2 people to 500+ to support growth for the overall workforce from 3,000 to 85,000+. Previous to his work at Meta, Vijay worked in a technical product manager role at Microsoft as well as lead a 5-year global recruiting system and process transformation at Microsoft. Vijay is a previously certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Greenbelt certified, and an Eagle Scout.