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The Presales Strategy & Innovation (S&I) Team

The Presales Strategy and Innovation team is responsible for driving strategic initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency, and providing critical support to the broader Presales organization. This team plays a pivotal role in aligning Presales efforts with overall business objectives, optimizing processes, and ensuring that the Presales function is well-equipped to deliver exceptional value to our customers.

The Program Strategy and Transformation Lead Opportunity

As a Program Strategy and Transformation Lead on the Presales Strategy & Innovation (S&I) team, you will be responsible for driving key programs and initiatives outlined in Presales 3 Year Vision as well as annual VMTs Initiatives. This position will require cross functional collaboration to standardize common processes, and establish standard methodologies to improve GTM velocity and efficiency as well as organizational culture and community. This person will frequently work directly with the Head of Presales and the senior leadership team.

What you’ll be doing 

• Support Go to Market and Presales leadership by keeping the rhythm of execution humming and removing any obstacles that may arise along the way.
• Orchestrate the overall planning process and health checks for Key Programs and Initiatives that deliver on Organizational VMTs.
• Identify key performance indicators and metrics for all programs and initiatives to help ensure progress and success. 
• Proactively identify and implement operational improvements, enhancements, and system customizations that meet business needs.
• Represents the Presales team as key liaison in coordinating with other internal planning functions. (e.g. Product, G&A and other GTM teams)
• Support Go to Market and Presales leadership team in the annual & quarterly planning process.
• Liaison with the Field Teams to capture feedback on current and new processes to identify opportunities for improvement. 
• Lead short-term deep dives and cross-functional project teams to structure and execute analyses needed to develop recommendations.
• Manage stakeholders, ensuring timely and qualitative communication.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 6+ years of work experience with a combination of sales, consulting and engineering experience, preferably in engineering or product management at a tech company or strategy consulting.
• Proven problem solving experience and in providing business insights and recommendations from data sets, both individually or in a group setting.
• Proven ability to track, prioritize, and drive multiple concurrent projects to success.
• Lead and influence across multiple levels and multiple functions of an organization, as well as, being a trusted advisor to leadership.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to flex communication style to different audiences.
• Thrives in ambiguity and in driving influence and clarity in highly matrixed organizations.
• Experience working with remote/distributed teams. 

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Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. 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 annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$170,000—$282,000 USD The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:$210,000—$316,000 USD

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/.

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