Strategic Account Executive

Okta Okta · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Strategic Accounts-315

This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Okta, a company focused on identity security, particularly in the context of AI. The AE will be responsible for driving sales revenue by prospecting, qualifying, and closing deals with large enterprise customers. The role involves establishing sales strategies, building relationships with C-suite decision makers, and working with internal teams and partners to achieve revenue targets. While the company is heavily involved in AI security, this specific role is a sales position and not directly involved in building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Establish a vision and 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 consistently 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 with C-level decision makers
  • Ability to navigate complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders from both the customer base and within the internal ecosystem
  • Proven success selling into C-suite and building partnership and buy-in with multiple stakeholders
  • Significant experience selling in partnership with GSI’s & the wider partner ecosystem
  • 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 MEDDICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)

Nice to have

  • passionate about security
  • passionate about driving protection against the biggest identity threats

What the JD emphasized

  • 12 + years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS products
  • Proven success selling into C-suite and building partnership and buy-in with multiple stakeholders
  • Significant experience selling in partnership with GSI’s & the wider partner ecosystem