# Area Sales Director, Strategic

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Connecticut; New Jersey; New York, New York
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $376,000-$517,000 USD
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an Area Sales Director, Strategic to lead a team of Strategic Account Executives in their region. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of building and running strategic sales teams in the software industry.

Responsibilities:

- Attract, recruit, hire, and mentor the Strategic Account Executive sales team.

- Lead a team of Okta's Strategic Account Executives, managing our largest customers.

- Create an open, inclusive team-oriented environment, building a results-driven culture of accountability and transparency.

- Lead by example, set expectations, follow through effectively and provide coaching and mentorship as needed.

- Be accountable for consistently delivering and overachieving against targets.

- Analyze data and dynamics to maximize existing successes and to create new sales growth opportunities.

- Accurately forecast monthly, quarterly, and annual targets for assigned regions.

- Develop, design, build, and execute all aspects of the Enterprise Business plan.

- Put into place sales force structure, process strategies, and strategic resource plans.

- Own the pipeline generation strategy and execute against the strategy.

- Maintain market intelligence and develop strategies to maintain Okta’s leadership position.

Requirements:

- 15+ years’ experience building and running Strategic sales teams in the software industry.

- 7+ years’ experience as a front-line sales leader.

- Deep understanding of SaaS / Cloud Go-To-Market and the required roles for effective customer engagement.

- Relevant software industry experience in IT systems, cloud enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, security, business applications and/or analytics.

- History of consistently meeting/exceeding targets and objectives personally and as a leader.

- Excellent leadership and influencing skills.

- Mastery of consultative/solution selling methodologies.

- Technical aptitude and experience selling into CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs and Lines of Business.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic sales leadership
- SaaS/Cloud Go-To-Market
- Consultative/solution selling
- Leadership
- Influencing
- Technical aptitude

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