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.

Corporate Strategy

The Okta Corporate Strategy function is part of the Corporate Development team and is focused on high impact strategies that support growth and our rapidly increasing scale. Our projects focus on what moves the needle for the company, including top-line growth, market expansion, M&A, and internal operational initiatives.

Okta is in the midst of becoming a first-class cloud and a fully enabled platform company and must continuously articulate and adjust its live strategy. The Okta Corporate Strategy team will play a critical role in articulating and structuring Okta’ strategy, assessing growth options and implementing new business formats. This team will also map and build points-of-view on the identity and access management market and its adjacencies, assessing each of its segment’s TAMs, growth rates and strategic potential for Okta’s entry or expansion.

Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

The Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy will work in close partnership with functional executives across the organization. You will be expected to work on projects that can range from market expansion strategies, to M&A and partnership evaluations, to cross functional initiatives. You will work closely with stakeholders from the product, engineering, and sales organization to understand the evolving market dynamics relevant to Okta. Your work will give you direct exposure to the executive team and contribute to our overall strategy and help drive its successful execution.

On a day-to-day basis, the Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy will structure strategy assessments and presentations, build economic models in Excel, build a structured understanding of Okta’s broad competitive playing field and its segments, on a qualitative and quantitative basis and will also help to organize and coordinate the implementation of strategic initiatives. 

The ideal candidate will have exposure to the cloud software space, and experience as a team member in complex strategic projects with large technology companies, inclusive of corporate and business unit strategy, driving business and technical alignment, and communicating with both internal and external executives.

What you’ll be doing 

• Play a key role helping to structure complex problems, develop hypotheses, conduct analyses and drive actionable recommendations through a data driven process
• Help to develop compelling strategy recommendations, structured and communicated in high-quality output in oral, presentation or written formats
• Develop over time a thorough understanding of Okta’s competitive space, provide thought leadership and help to influence decision making within executive audiences

What you’ll bring to the role

• 3+ years of work experience at a top strategy consulting firm
• 2+ years of experience as a team member helping to design, manage, and execute strategic projects with large enterprise technology companies including but not limited to market expansion, market segmentation, M&A, strategic partnerships
• MBA business degree required, STEM’s or Economics undergraduate degree a plus
• The ideal candidate will have expertise in the enterprise software/ SaaS industry, experience with cloud software vendors and their strategies/business models
• Effective communicator, able to convey complex ideas in a clear, concise manner both verbally and in writing; comfortable in business and technical discussions
• Experience in building trusting relationships and influencing others
• Collaborative team player who is also an independent thinker
• Self-starter who thrives and can multitask in fast-paced and often ambiguous environments
• Passion for technology, the enterprise software space, startups, learning new things

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California. 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.   

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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