Senior Alliances Solution Engineering Apj

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · SE Field CTO-322

This role is for a Senior Alliances Solutions Engineer in the APJ region, focusing on driving Okta's business through channel partners. The role involves building technical relationships with partners, understanding their Go-To-Market strategies, and evangelizing Okta's identity solutions, particularly in the context of AI. While AI is mentioned as a key driver for Okta's business, the core responsibilities of the role are focused on pre-sales engineering, partner enablement, and technical support within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain, rather than direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and manage technical relationships with assigned Partners and team with the assigned Okta Partner Account Team
  2. Drive incremental revenue through increased Okta solution sales with the support of Strategic Partners and their GTM strategies.
  3. Develop domain expertise and thought leadership regarding the Partners’ current areas of focus as well as in new areas for expansion
  4. Gather, track, and translate partner feedback to help steer the Okta product roadmap
  5. Deliver technical training sessions for Partners (leading workshops, demoing Okta features, explaining best practices and competitive differentiators)

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years pre-sales engineering experience
  • Experience with implementing Okta, Auth0 or both
  • An understanding of IAM / IDaaS competitive landscape
  • Experience supporting or enabling partner ecosystems or alliances in cloud security, identity, or cybersecurity
  • Strong presentation and communication skills at a technical level
  • Experience with at least one standard network security protocol. (OAuth, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, OIDC)
  • Hands-on experience in cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice to have

  • Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: web (Javascript, HTML, frontend frameworks) development, mobile (iOS, Android) development, backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field is preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office during the first week of employment