Sr. Customer Success Manager

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Customer Success Management-750

Sr. Customer Success Executive for Okta's Enterprise sector, focusing on customer retention, value delivery, and driving business outcomes through Okta's identity solutions, including those related to AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and nurture strong customer and C-Level relationships to understand their business goals and needs, ensuring retention, happiness, and a significant return on investment.
  2. Design and execute proactive success plans and Strategic Business Reviews (SBRs) with clear goals, KPIs, and timelines—turning strategy into measurable traction.
  3. Champion customers internally and mobilize cross-functional partners across Sales, Support, Engineering, and Product to resolve escalations and lead coordinated success motions.
  4. Gather and surface feedback that drives continuous improvement, actively challenging what needs to evolve.
  5. Identify and communicate relevant new products and features, helping customers adopt and benefit from Okta's agentic capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • Customer Success Management
  • Account Management
  • Consulting
  • Enterprise Relationship Management
  • SaaS Product Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Executive Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Technical Acumen

Nice to have

  • Enterprise Security Tools Experience

What the JD emphasized

  • career-defining work
  • high-performance mindset
  • consistently raising the bar
  • turning action into traction
  • thriving in change
  • moving fast to simplify and repeat
  • leader who can navigate these constraints with urgency and an obsession for concrete outcomes
  • Strong problem-solving, orchestration, and consultative skills are necessary for navigating challenges, finding innovative solutions, and winning as a team.
  • 5+ years of experience in a customer success, account management, or consulting role, managing relationships with large, complex enterprises (preferably working with a SaaS-based technical enterprise product).
  • solid track record of delivering and scaling an exceptional customer experience, choosing ambition over comfort and consistently raising your own bar.
  • Demonstrate strong emotional intelligence and an elite level of relationship management and executive stakeholder development.
  • Possess exceptional presentation and communication skills, particularly when engaging with C-level executives to align technical goals with business value.
  • strong listening and analytical skills with the demonstrated ability to ask effective questions, dive deep, understand the customer’s business priorities, and anticipate their needs.
  • Exhibit strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally to win as a team.
  • good technical and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to provide quick resolution to problems.