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Area Vice President, Strategic Sales

🏢 Okta · 📍 Connecticut; Massachusetts; New York, New York; Pennsylvania; Washington, DC 💰 $408,000 - $408,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Okta Sales Team 

Okta has a vision to free anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of Workforce log-ins every year. As an Okta AE, you will drive territory growth through both net new logos and cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Okta Platform customers. With the support of your Okta ecosystem, your focus will be on consistent results and an unwavering commitment to our customers.

Strategic Sales Team 

We have a team of highly experienced sellers who are targeting Okta’s largest customers.  This segment represents one of the biggest opportunities for growth at Okta.  Each Strategic Account Executive is responsible for maintaining high activity standards; daily prospecting, pipeline growth, prospect qualification, and delivering assigned monthly sales revenue targets. 

The Strategic Area Vice President Opportunity

The Area Vice President of Strategic Sales will define market tactics to meet annual business goals. They will establish and lead a cross-functional team of experienced sales leaders and account executives in growing a productive and sustainable sales pipeline across the complex Eastern territory. This person will help transform and integrate all GTM functions, evolving an already world-class field operation, while achieving significant revenue growth annually. In addition to requisite passion, skills, and experience, the successful candidate will have a measurable track record in building and managing large, high-performing sales organizations. This individual will play a key role in driving a significant share of revenue for Okta. 

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Uncompromising security-first mindset balanced with developer velocity, zero-trust architecture, and absolute availability.

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  • 2. Proposing architectures with single points of failure in core authentication or authorization paths.
  • 3. Hand-waving encryption standards, token management, or session revocation complexity.
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