Large Enterprise Account Executive Okta

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Paris, France · Enterprise Sales-340

This role is for a Large Enterprise Account Executive in Paris, focusing on selling Okta's identity solutions to large organizations (over 20,000 users). The role involves developing sales strategies, generating pipeline, and driving bookings, with a focus on the growing French market. While the company discusses AI as a key area, this specific role is in sales, not AI development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
  2. Embrace to Okta’s #1 core value to always love our customers
  3. Generating new business with the world’s largest organisations
  4. Position Okta at both the functional and business value level with target stakeholders;
  5. Champion Okta to prospective clients at sales presentations, site visits and product demonstrations

Skills

Required

  • Sales strategies and tactics
  • Customer relationship management
  • New business generation
  • Value-based selling
  • SaaS or Cloud Computing sales experience
  • Experience selling to large organizations in the French territory
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Ability to travel

Nice to have

  • Understanding of and experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on and API-based solutions

What the JD emphasized

  • focus on user base accounts above 20000
  • track record of success selling a Software-as-a-Service and/or Cloud Computing services to the largest and most complex organisations in the French territory
  • Experience in value-based selling at senior/C-Level
  • A reputation as a trusted business partner