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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 Enablement Operations Team 

The Enablement Operations team oversees Okta’s Global Field Enablement operations, planning, program management, technology, and analytics functions.

The Sr. Manager, Field Enablement Systems Opportunity 

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Enablement Operations, you’ll be the team manager and system expert responsible for driving adoption, value, and insights across OKTAs enablement platforms including Highspot and WalkMe. You’ll build, evolve, manage and maintain critical enablement platforms to enable OKTA’s customer-facing teams with the right content, knowledge, process, and tools to maximize sales growth and customer impact.

What you’ll be doing

• Enablement Platform Ownership: Drive the overall adoption and utilization of enablement platforms, instilling sound governance across the GTM organization, general administration to ensure strong and consistent platform health, training/evangelism, and incorporating/distilling feedback.
• Drive the enablement platform portfolio as a strategic component for supporting ongoing GTM programs.
• Lead the organization of content creators through the building and maintenance of metadata and taxonomies to meet current and future customer and business needs. Partner with cross-functional leads to drive alignment and ensure consistency across teams.
• Provide appropriate enablement system training for the organization.
• Content Architecture: Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive enablement content architecture, ensuring seamless accessibility and effective utilization by the sales team.
• Content Performance Analysis & Optimization: Conduct in-depth analyses of content performance, leveraging advanced analytics to drive strategy and decision-making.
• Content Management: Oversee the entire content lifecycle with a focus on strategic planning, governance, creation, editing, approval, publishing, and retirement.
• Innovation in Content Delivery: Lead the exploration and implementation of cutting-edge content delivery methods for sales teams to enhance engagement and effectiveness.
• Training and Support: Train enablement teams on how to design and build content to utilize best-practices and deliver high quality experiences to the sales teams.
• Standardization: Create and document standard processes, policies and templates with use cases and best practices.
• System Management: Manage all system upgrades, enhancements, and customizations to maintain and enhance the overall user experience.
• Continuous Improvement: Utilize field feedback and information gained through platforms to execute on continuous improvements and inform business-level decision making.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 8+ years of experience in platform, knowledge and content management for Field Enablement teams.
• MUST be an expert with Highspot (i.e. you have owned Highspot at a previous company). 
• 3+ years of true people management experience.
• Proven experience managing enablement systems (Highspot, WalkMe, Gong, Circle HD, Scribe, LMS Platforms).
• Passion for and championship of content transformation, organization and optimal user experiences.
• Demonstrated experience leading content strategy initiatives and managing complex content projects.
• Understanding of sales processes and how enablement content contributes to sales success.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Sharp critical thinking and analytical skills to measure and optimize content effectiveness.
• Self-reliant and capable of quickly solving problems and resolving conflicts at various levels.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and product teams.
• Experience in high-growth environments with an understanding of how to navigate organizational change efforts.

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.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, 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 base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$146,000—$220,000 USD The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $164,000—$246,000 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/.

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 or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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