Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering - SLED

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The Okta SLED Solutions Engineering Team

The Okta Solutions Engineering team combines exceptional technical expertise with sharp business acumen, enabling team members to guide a diverse range of customers in leveraging the full potential of Okta’s Identity Platform. As trusted advisors, Solutions Engineers excel at understanding customer challenges, asking insightful and clarifying questions to uncover their core technical needs, and delivering tailored solutions that address those needs effectively. Empathy, problem-solving, and a commitment to customer success are at the heart of everything we do.

The Solution Engineering Manager Opportunity

Reporting to the Director of Solution Engineering for Okta’s Public Sector organization, this role will lead a team of Solution Engineers focused on State, Local, and Higher Education U.S. opportunities.  Our Solutions Engineering leadership are adept at seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. They are particularly results focused and partner closely with our Sales leadership to create and execute a plan of action to achieve our growth targets. 
This role requires travel to our San Francisco, CA or Chicago, IL office for in-person onboarding during the first week of employment. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

What you’ll be doing 

• Solution Engineering leaders prioritize the success of their team. You are responsible for working with your team on their professional growth through defined development plans and experiences.
• You own and report on the business impact of your team as they work with prospects who are evaluating the Okta Identity Platform.  Team activities include demonstrations, technical deep dives, trials and POVs. 
• You will actively work on deals, proposing strategies to help insure the success of opportunities.  This includes frequently participating in on-site deal support.
• Promote the sense of “team within a team” by collaborating with the greater presales teams and business units at Okta.
• Always recruiting!  You will attract, recruit, ramp, and mentor a team of great Solutions Engineers.  

What you’ll bring to the role

• Demonstrated success selling to US Government companies with strong preference to SLED organizations. A strong understanding of the sales motions necessary for success in the SLED market, with focus on security is a big plus.
• Ability to influence technical decision makers and executives. Experience with and proponent of MEDDPICC and Value/Outcome based selling methodologies.
• A vision for Okta’s opportunity in the market and how our customers will leverage Okta solutions to drive business outcomes.
• 5+ years presales experience with supervisory responsibilities
• Bachelors of Science in engineering, science or mathematics or equivalent experience

Additional Experience

• Expertise in security product market trends and directional awareness of Okta’s roadmap and technology development efforts. Knowledge around the Okta platform and competitor product offerings.
• Competency with security concepts and solutions; knowledge of customer enterprise security software (firewalls, proxies, VPN, CASB, databases and applications) welcome, however, competency in Identity and Access Management is highly desirable.

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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

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Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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