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 Field CTO role within Okta is a high impact position focused on serving as an evangelist through strategic and industry events, supporting strategic sales opportunities, and working closely with prospects and existing customers to shape engineering and product priorities. You will be one of our thought leading technical experts, and are a well-rounded and well-regarded technologist at heart who has a deep understanding of the Identity & Access Management industry category and/or IT/Security adjacencies. This is a highly influential role and requires dynamic communications and presentation skills amongst varied audiences of both business and technology leaders. You are just as adept at engaging with the customer’s CISO as you are at working closely with internal product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Leverage industry knowledge and expertise to establish relationships with customer C-suite executives
• You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context
• Strategic involvement in industry leadership events
• Drive thought leadership opportunities with marketing and field teams
• Be a trusted advisor for Okta’s product and engineering teams
• Collect, distill and communicate customer needs and product requirements to cross functional counterparts across product management, engineering, marketing and sales
• Work closely with Product Marketing and demand generation teams to spread awareness and support pipeline building via customer touch points (round tables, workshops, etc), conferences, strategic events, thought leadership blogs, webinars and 
• white papers
• Contribute to the creation of reference architectures, technical materials, best practices, etc. based on field experience to continue to up-level and enable our internal stakeholders

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of product, technical marketing or pre-sales engineering experience
• 15+ years of experience in IT/security (ex: identity, web application development, security, risk and/or compliance, or IT infrastructure)
• Recent identity and/or cybersecurity experience in a relevant industry strongly preferred
• Ability to interact with and influence senior executives within the Public Sector Community ( SLED and Federal)
• Experience in customer-facing roles explaining strategic and technical concepts
• Ability to act as an industry thought leader with customers, prospects and at industry events
• Ability to travel 50%+ of the time

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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:$238,000—$356,000 USD The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:$238,000—$356,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an 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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