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The Public Sector Alliances Team
This individual will manage SLED West Alliances for Okta and support our SLED West sales team of 6-7 Account Executives as we co-sell to SLED customers.
The Regional Alliance Manager Opportunity
Reporting to the Area Vice President, Public Sector Alliances, this role will be responsible for all partnering activities with our SLED partner ecosystem and build and manage a thriving, growth-focused SLED partner ecosystem.
What you'll be doing
- Work with Okta's Executive, Regional Alliances, Marketing and Sales teams to identify key SLED/Public Sector partners, build a strategic plan for initiating conversations and selling the value of a mutually beneficial working relationship to those partners, and drive the structure of partnerships.
- Define tailored value propositions and create detailed go-to-market plans that strengthen our value proposition to the marketplace while providing new revenue opportunities with our resellers, solution providers and occasionally ISV partners.
- Serve as the partner advocate inside Okta; evangelize partners and the opportunities they present by injecting partner DNA into Okta.
What you'll bring to the role
- Seasoned revenue generation track record driving sales in both direct and Alliances roles selling into the SLED space.
- Public sector Alliances success with a rolodex of GSI and Regional SLED partners and their key executives and sales leaders.
- Strong history of building and driving pipeline generation at the field level with Okta and partner sales organization.
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- 10+ years of high-tech business development or alliances experience at a software company, successfully implementing channel/field alliances strategy to drive dramatically increased sales.
- Ability to formulate a partnership vision, strategy, and execution plan.
- A business leader who is able to drive influence and build strong relationships with decision makers across all levels of partner and prospect organizations.
- Cyber Security SaaS / Identity Experience.
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live.
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