JOB PURPOSE:

The Dedicated Customer Success Executive will be responsible for complementing Okta’s innovations, standard methodologies and capabilities with our valued customers’ business objectives and priorities thereby driving higher business value and executive alignment between Okta and our customers. You will be responsible for driving customer adoption and success by providing oversight, adoption recommendations, opportunities for greater service and risk management. You will perform routine health checks and assist with business value assessment to ensure our customers, the most return on investment from Okta. The success of this role means higher customer happiness, retention and expansion of Okta business.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Serve as the primary point of contact post implementation. Assume overall customer adoption responsibility and critical issue management role.
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with customer partners and executive sponsors to drive product adoption and ensure they are using the solution to achieve full business value.
• Partner with internal Okta partners to align account activities with the customer's business case and strategy.
• Prepare and educate customers on new features and releases.
• Monitor and identify adoption and utilization trends, provider recommendations based on risk and customers’ business needs.
• Conduct periodic customer health-checks.
• Identify renewal risk and collaborate with internal teams to remediate and ensure a successful renewal.
• You'll be the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product.
• Work with the sales team to properly sell and positions Success Services.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of customer success and SaaS organization experience.
• You have Expert knowledge and experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security, cloud architecture, as well as on-premise IT.
• 10+ years of consulting and implementation practices on a broad range of IT systems preferably cloud service and/or identity management.
• Knowledge of enterprise web technologies, security and state of the art infrastructures.
• Specialized training on support, SAML, security preferred.
• 5+ years of application programming and system support experience is strongly preferred.
• Agreeable and willing to be a hands-on contributor.
• Excellent communication skills, including issue tracking, triaging and crisis management.
• Experience in Process Improvement, Decision Making, Managing Processes, Planning, Analyzing Information , Developing Standards, Help Desk, Service Excellence.
• Experience of SaaS vendors such as Box, Google Apps, NetSuite, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree Required or Equivalent Experience.
• Available to travel up to 35%

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

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