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Okta's Strategic Account Executive Sales Team is growing!
Our Strategic Account Executives lead the sales process within an assigned territory of new logos for prospective Fortune 500 accounts and regional consultant influencers.
We need a Strategic Account Executive who will continually ensure assigned territory developing new logos and profitability within Fortune 500 accounts by developing solid business relationships with new and existing clients for Okta. You will plan and execute strategies and sales tactics in the following areas: generating new logos, territory planning, pre-request for proposal prospecting, relationship development, pricing, presentation and delivery (finalist or other), negotiations, closing and executing contracts.
As a Strategic Account Executive you will:

• Go to market as an expert on both our Workforce and Customer identity cloud offerings.
• Build thorough account plans detailing customer strategy, financials, pains, objectives and stakeholders.
• Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities with Fortune 500 accounts in your region
• Proactively drive your own top of funnel activity through Inmails, events, networking and other creative avenues always ensuring you have enough pipeline to hit your number.
• Equally utilize Sales Development (SDR's & BDR's), Marketing and the Partner ecosystem to help find and win new logo opportunities.
• Leverage upsell and cross sell opportunities within your install base accounts to grow the success of your customers and Okta.
• Adopt a strong value based sales approach; always looking to bring a compelling point of view to our customers.
• Develop trusted and long term advisory partnership with Executives in your accounts, leveraging the Okta technology to support them in hitting their key strategic goals.
• Follow a MEDDPICC sales methodology to navigate complexity in the sales cycle and ensure you're ahead of any obstacles to the deal closing.
• Build mutual action plans in partnership with your customers to create shared accountability.
• Partner with cross functional teams from Sales Development (SDR's & BDR's) to Channel & Alliances, Marketing, Pre-Sales, Solutions Architects, Legal, Deal Desk and more to ensure success for yourself and Okta.
• Leverage our Business Value team to show our customers their ROI and deliver effective messaging about the long term impact of the Okta solutions.
• Leverage cross border relationships with AE's in other regions when managing global accounts.

You could be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Expert level experience selling Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud technology into F500 organizations. Strategic at Okta means any organization with 20,000 employees or more.
• Navigated long complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders from both the customer base and within your own company. Typically selling deals that could be land and expand but aiming for 6 to 7 figure ARR contracts.
• Significant experience selling to both technical audiences such as CIO, CISO, CTO and the commercial personas such as Product, Marketing, HR, Operations etc.
• Expert using a Sales Framework such as MEDDICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)
• Significant experience selling in partnership with GSI's & the wider partner ecosystem

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Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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 OTE range for this position for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington is between: $264,000 - $396,000 USD
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Okta
The foundation for secure connections between people and technology
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 18,800 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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From a competitive salary and employee stock purchasing plan to professional development resources and flexible PTO, Okta offers everything you need to support your work, your life, and your work-life balance. Click here to learn more: https://rewards.okta.com/us