Senior Manager, Enterprise Services Sales

Position description:

The Senior Manager, Enterprise Services Sales is responsible for scoping and selling Okta Professional Services (PS), and managing a team of PS Services Sales Executives within the AMER Enterprise region.  This is a ‘player/coach’ role as we are looking for an experienced services sales person who has the capability to perform technical scoping of engagements, as well as manage and lead a team of PS Sales Executives.  This person is accountable for meeting regional bookings quota by actively managing and supporting services delivery sales team.

You will partner with the license sales team and lead with scoping, selling, and positioning of Okta Services with the goal of delighting our customers by accelerating their time to value. As an active participant during delivery, you will provide leadership and mentoring as needed to the PS Delivery team, responsible for a smooth transition to the Delivery team, and collaborate with the Customer Success ecosystem to ensure deployment meets what was sold.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Articulate and sell the value of Okta Services within prospective and existing accounts enterprise customers
• Work in conjunction with Sales Representatives, Sales Engineers, and Architects to define and integrate the services solution into the comprehensive Okta proposal
• Provide weekly forecast of Regional Team Bookings to PS leadership
• Own AMER regional Services and Training bookings quota in assigned territory
• Recruit, train, mentor, and manage experienced hires selling professional services on your team
• Translate high-level product proposals into an implementable technical solution
• Execute Professional Services technical scoping activity with prospective customers and produce proposal, level of effort, Statement of Work, and resource plans
• Plan and lead teams of resources involved in scoping professional services for our most complex solutions and the largest customers.
• Plan and lead Training positioning and discovery with prospective customers, make training recommendations, and ensure appropriate training is included in proposals and quotes.
• Work harmoniously with Okta channel partners on joint proposals and scoping to ensure customer success
• Being recognized by customer as a trusted advisor in product deployment and process decisions.
• Participate in virtual teams to assist buildout Okta Services methodologies, processes, offerings/services, and collateral

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of people management experience
• 4+ years experience of selling Professional Services and/or Technology Solutions.
• 4+ years meeting and exceeded services bookings targets in a services organization.
• 6+ years building and maintaining positive relationships with key partners throughout a delivery process.
• Strong presentation skills: Showing the value, capabilities, and differentiators of complex service solutions using methodologies and service offerings.
• 4+ years of experience mastering the SOW/Proposal processes by scoping, producing, and delivering to the customer SOW’s that meet customers documented requirements
• Can articulate relevant customer success stories and metrics that demonstrate value to the customer.
• 3+ years experience with technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, XACML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth, OpenID, Active Directory, LDAP)
• 3+years experience with Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service
• General knowledge of cloud architecture as well as on-premise IT landscape
• Some knowledge and experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Security space preferred
• Project Management experience is a plus
• Ability to learn Okta solutions at a technical consultant level
• MUST be located within 50 miles of Bellevue, WA or Chicago, IL

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.