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 Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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 Business Technology Team
This role joins the Business Technology organization and plays a critical part in realizing our vision to accelerate the delivery of business outcomes across Okta by driving clarity, collaboration, and accountability in everything we do. We enable the broader Business Technology organization in the mission to “Accelerate Okta’s Scale and Growth”.
The Salesforce Senior Analyst Opportunity:
We are seeking a skilled Salesforce Practitioner with expertise in Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud, including Customer First applications to join our expanding team. This role involves leading strategic initiatives and managing ongoing enhancements and production support.
The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Salesforce functionalities, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. You should have a security-first mindset while balancing seamless customer and employee experiences.
In this critical role, you will manage the strategic roadmap for Customer First teams including, Professional Services, Custom Success, and Customer Support focusing on Service Cloud and Experience Cloud features. As the key liaison between technology and business stakeholders, you will ensure technology solutions align with business objectives and maintain integration across the organization. You will also lead the scrum team within a Scrum and Agile framework.
If you are a seasoned professional eager to make an impact on Customer First applications, Okta offers a dynamic environment for you to excel. Join us to shape the future of secure technology solutions and support Okta’s mission to enable safe technology use anywhere and on any device.
What you’ll be doing
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand unique business needs and translate them into a strategic product roadmap for Salesforce-based products
- Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate the overall vision and strategy for Salesforce-based products, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Business Process Understanding: Maintain a holistic view of business system processes and users to understand functional impacts related to configuration, process, workflows, and reporting
- Backlog Management: Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that features and enhancements align with business priorities
- Requirements Articulation: Clearly articulate user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications for development teams
- Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and the scrum team, providing guidance and clarification on requirements
- Agile Participation: Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews
- User Acceptance Testing: Oversee UAT sessions to ensure that delivered solutions meet business requirements and expectations
- Platform Stability: Maintain an “always on” mentality to ensure platform stability, working with production support and the scrum team to resolve defects
- Release Communication: Ensure that releases are well-communicated and that stakeholders are informed about changes and their impact
- Documentation: Ensure process and technical documentation is created and maintained
- Adaptability: Adapt to changing priorities of the business and seek out creative solutions to evolving challenges
What You’ll Bring to the Role:
- Experience: 5+ years of IT experience, including 2+ years of hands-on implementation of Sales & Service Cloud and 2+ years with Customer First business processes including Customer Success, Professional Services, and Educational Services
- Product Ownership: Proven experience as a Product Analyst or similar role with a focus on Salesforce products and Customer First business processes
- Technical Expertise: Experience supporting the design and implementation of large-scale, technically complex solutions on Salesforce and associated ecosystem
- Agile Methodologies: Experience with Scrum and Agile development methodologies
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills to engage with a broad set of stakeholders
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze business processes and systems for inefficiencies and guide internal customers to success.
- Innovation: Maintain connection with industry technology trends, bring innovation and creativity to solution design to business problems with an ever present security mindset
- Lifecycle Management: Demonstrable ability to oversee the end-to-end lifecycle from conception to launch
- Time Management: Strong time management and self-management skills.
- Adaptability: Ability to excel in a fast-growing, fast-paced environment, delivering accuracy while managing to deadlines with adaptability
- Security Mindset: A “security first” mindset
- Certifications: Preferred certifications include Service/Experience/Sales Cloud Consultant and Product Owner certifications
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$99,000—$149,000 CAD
What you can look forward to as an 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. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
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 participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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