Director, Cloud and Growth Partnerships
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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.
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The Team
Okta’s Tech Partner/Corp Dev team is responsible for incubating partnerships that drive growth in new segments and verticals, and expand the Okta product. This team leads all aspects of identifying, evaluating, and executing large-scale partnerships that drive Okta’s overall strategy.
The Opportunity
Okta is looking for an experienced Director, Cloud and Growth to lead our efforts with select strategic partners, with a focus on cloud infrastructure partnerships. This person will own the entire partner engagement lifecycle from partner incubation, to solution definition/build, to working closely with the alliances team on go-to-market strategy and metrics. This role reports into the leader of Technical Strategy and Partnerships.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in building strategies and supporting partnerships to win in the enterprise, Public Sector and/or regulated verticals. This includes experience incubating high-growth alliances with large technology companies and/or cloud service providers with the goal of opening new markets and/or expanding Okta’s product offering. This candidate must have a demonstrated ability to build relationships across disciplines and think strategically about both business and technical challenges.
What you will be doing
- Identify and incubate new partnership opportunities, build a supporting business case
- Evaluate and prioritize partnership opportunities, performing quantitative and qualitative due diligence
- Build close alignment with stakeholders across Okta’s product, engineering, marketing, sales, and communications teams
- Establishes key performance indicators that will determine the ultimate success of the partnership
- Provide internal and external thought leadership
What you will bring to the role
- 10+ years of experience in business development, corporate strategy, or product management
- Direct experience in building partnerships with other technology vendors, with a focus on winning the enterprise, public sector and regulated verticals.
- Experience with cloud service providers and their strategies/business models
- An understanding of developer platforms and managing large technology ecosystems
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Experience with cloud identity and security vendors
- Experience with Customer Identity centric partnerships
- Experience in Public Sector and/or regulated verticals
- 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.
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