Account Executive, Auth0

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Emerging Sales-350

Account Executive for Auth0 at Okta, focusing on driving territory growth through net new logos and cultivating existing customer relationships. The role involves working with resellers and distributors to provide value to mature Product Development teams (Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture) in Japan, with a focus on securing AI and identity. Requires strong sales executive skills, technical acumen, and ability to connect technical sales to business outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build a plan to guide your long-term approach to net new logo pipeline generation
  2. Consistently deliver revenue targets to support YoY territory growth
  3. Identify, develop and execute account strategies to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
  4. Identify, target and gain access to appropriate leaders in prospect accounts, building and cultivating your network of decision makers
  5. Scope, negotiate and close agreements to meet and exceed revenue quota targets

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS products
  • Ability to evangelize, educate and create demand within the Product, Digital and Engineering organizations, with a strong track record of pitching and closing to Product, Engineering, and Architecture decision makers.
  • Deep technical discovery skills that resonate with the developer community (you must have a strong grasp of product development lifecycle, devops, engineering terminology, product management)
  • Strong technical acumen with proven ability to connect a technical sale to a companies’ business and transformation outcomes
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills with audiences of all levels (both Practitioners and Executives) and all technical aptitudes, with attention to detail.
  • Prior experience working with Engineering, Product and Digital Transformation Initiatives
  • Confident and self driven with the humility required to successfully work in teams
  • Proven record of out of the box thinking to open up new logos and win transformative opportunities.
  • Expertise using a Sales Framework such as MEDDPICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)
  • Consistently high-level energy, rigor and accuracy with forecasting and opportunity hygiene management

Nice to have

  • Proven track record of partnering with key SIs and AWS.

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS products
  • Deep technical discovery skills that resonate with the developer community (you must have a strong grasp of product development lifecycle, devops, engineering terminology, product management)
  • Strong technical acumen with proven ability to connect a technical sale to a companies’ business and transformation outcomes
  • Proven record of out of the box thinking to open up new logos and win transformative opportunities.