Strategic Account Executive, Auth0

Okta Okta · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Strategic Accounts-315

This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Okta, focusing on selling Auth0, an identity and access management platform. The role involves driving territory growth through net new logos and cultivating existing customer relationships, with a focus on security and identity threats, particularly in the context of AI. The AE will work with Application Development teams (Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture) and needs strong technical discovery skills and the 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

  • 12+ years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS products
  • Ability to evangelize, educate and create demand within the CTO organization, 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
  • Strong technical acumen with proven ability to connect a technical sale to a companies’ business outcomes
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with audiences of all levels and all technical aptitudes
  • Confident and self driven with the humility required to successfully work in teams
  • Expertise using a Sales Framework such as MEDDPICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS products
  • Ability to evangelize, educate and create demand within the CTO organization, 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
  • Strong technical acumen with proven ability to connect a technical sale to a companies’ business outcomes