Regional Alliance Manager, Enterprise East

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The Partner and Alliances Team

Okta Partners & Alliances is responsible for indirect go-to-market strategy, execution, and bookings globally. With more than 1000 partners around the world today, Okta’s partner program is designed to accelerate our impact with customers.

The Regional Alliance Manager, Okta (CML/ENT/Canada)

Reporting to the Director of AMER Okta Partners & Alliances, the Regional Alliance Manager will drive co-sell execution across a defined portfolio of focus partners within the Commercial customer segment. This role is responsible for collaborating with partners and Okta Sales to advance active opportunities, create new Okta pipeline, and align the resources and actions required to move deals forward. In collaboration with the Partner Account Manager for Okta, the Regional Alliance Manager will use account intelligence, partner relationships, and performance data to identify additional partners with the propensity to expand their Okta footprint across target accounts. Through focused execution and repeatable co-sell motions, this role will strengthen partner alignment, accelerate Okta growth, and deliver greater value to customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with the Okta sales teams to define GTM plans for the Focus Okta Partners in their portfolio
• Leverage Partner Account Managers to drive joint pipeline and closed/won business
• Serve as the Partner advocate inside Okta; evangelize Partners and the opportunities they present by executing programs that help keep Partners top of mind with Okta sales leaders and AE’s to ensure key Partners with unique capabilities and offerings are part of any territory sales plan
• Forecast alliance revenue, inclusive of Focus Partners and co-sell motion accurately with strong Salesforce.com skills
• Apply strong data & analytical skills to measure KPIs around pipe-gen, sourced ARR, marketing, deal registration, accreditations and certifications
• Execute the strategy behind the Presales technical alignment and the Services organizations to hit mutual targets
• Represent both the voice of the Alliance Partner to Okta Sales and the voice of Okta Sales to the Partner as required to resolve issues and attain revenue
• Build strong working relationships with all Strategic and Commercial Okta Sales and Professional Services teams to effectively and efficiently engage in co-sell motion
• Drive originated and teamed deals with defined Partners in order to achieve quota

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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 (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:
$200,000 — $250,000 USD

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