Area Sales Director, Corporate Customer

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 Area Sales Director, Corporate Sales will lead a team of quota-carrying Account Executives that cover medium-sized businesses. Our AE’s focus on closing new logo opportunities and cultivate relationships and drive growth within our existing customer base. You will join a team of highly motivated, professional, and energetic sales reps that take pride in running consultative sales processes and delivering our vision to a wide base of accounts across various industries.

 Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of a Corporate customer team, ~6 AEs 
• Hire, motivate, mentor and provide training to increase efficiency, productivity and skillsets of employees
• Ensure quarterly revenue targets and monthly goals are achieved 
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date Salesforce data for your team and provide reliable forecast information to upper management 
• Actively engage in territory planning and opportunity development
• Work closely with extended team of pre-sales, services, training, legal, renewals business partners

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in selling within the SaaS b2b space 
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of quota-carrying SaaS sales professionals 
• Ability to build trust and strong relationships with internal partners
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills; and executive-level communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel approximately 25% with reps
• BS/BA degree strongly preferred

  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.

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, 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/us. 

The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:$312,000—$468,000 USD

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 thems