About Okta
Secure identity management from cloud to ground
Key Highlights
- Public company (NASDAQ: OKTA) - strong equity potential
- Over 1000 employees with significant growth trajectory
- $229.3 million raised in Series E funding
- Provides identity management solutions for cloud applications
Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) is a leading identity management platform headquartered in The East Cut, San Francisco, CA. With over 1000 employees, Okta provides secure single sign-on solutions for organizations of all sizes, enabling seamless access to cloud applications. The company has raised $229.3 millio...
🎁 Benefits
Okta offers flexible work-from-home opportunities, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, and financial incentives including stock options. Emplo...
🌟 Culture
Okta fosters a culture focused on security and innovation, emphasizing the importance of identity management in today's digital landscape. The company...
Job Description
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Senior Alliance Solutions Engineer Opportunity
Okta believes in Partners and, together with our technology, will help take Identity mainstream and consolidate our position as a Leader in the market. Partner Solutions Engineers are dedicated to growing Okta business through the Channel, working closely with Regional Alliance Managers, Sales Representatives, Marketing and Partner Enablement. As a Partner Solutions Engineer at Okta, you will have an opportunity to be a well-respected technical expert, building strong, long standing relationships with key Partners and Global System Integrators, supporting both global and India markets. You will become your partners’ trusted advisor for anything Identity and Access Management related and will help them understand how Okta can best fit in their Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy, integrate with their current offerings, help evangelize partner solutions within the Okta field teams and lead our partners in building Okta practices that deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
*This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office during the first week of employment.
What you’ll be doing
- Build and manage technical relationships with assigned Partners and team with the assigned Okta Partner Account Team
- Drive incremental revenue through increased Okta solution sales with the support of Strategic Partners and their GTM strategies.
- Develop domain expertise and thought leadership regarding the Partners’ current areas of focus as well as in new areas for expansion
- Gather, track, and translate partner feedback to help steer the Okta product roadmap
- Deliver technical training sessions for Partners (leading workshops, demoing Okta features, explaining best practices and competitive differentiators)
- Field technical questions, inquiries and Request for Information from the Partners through in-person, virtual and office hours and provide support for building Partner COEs
- Establish and maintain technical expertise on current and developing Okta products and technology
- Provide oversight, guidance, and assistance during the Partners sales process (including RFP responses) to ensure mutual success
- Up to 25% travel in support of Partner, Okta and industry events
How you’ll be measured
- Direct and influenced revenue growth
- Partner developed and driven GTM Solution Offering driven into the market / their customer base
- Partner enablement and resource certification growth
What you’ll bring to the role
- 5+ years pre-sales engineering experience.
- Experience with implementing Okta, Auth0 or both
- An understanding of IAM / IDaaS competitive landscape
- Experience supporting or enabling partner ecosystems or alliances in cloud security, identity, or cybersecurity
- Strong presentation and communication skills at a technical level
- A passion to serve the partner as our customer and ensure their success within their customer bases.
- Experience with at least one standard network security protocol. (OAuth, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, OIDC)
- Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: web (Javascript, HTML, frontend frameworks) development, mobile (iOS, Android) development, backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
- Hands-on experience in cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Confident dispensing knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field is preferred.
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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community 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. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at https://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.
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