Description
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
The Customer First Team
We are a team of Identity and Access Management experts. We help customers, businesses, and organisations maximise their Okta IAM platform investment, providing rapid time-to-value in adoption and usage and promoting scalability and agility. Our team sits within the Customer First area - focused on ensuring the long term success of our customers.
Role Summary
Reporting to the Manager of Partner Delivery Success, this role will be responsible for leading and developing Okta partners to successfully deliver Okta services to our valued customers.
The Principal Delivery Success Manager (DSM) is responsible for developing partner delivery capability within a defined product domain and regional partner portfolio. This role ensures service delivery partners are prepared to successfully deploy Okta solutions through capability development, go-live validation, and delivery oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop delivery capability across the assigned partner portfolio.
- Guide partners through the Service Delivery Partner maturity model.
- Identify specialization gaps and recommend enablement paths.
- Support partners pursuing product specializations.
- Encourage partner certification and skill development.
- Review and validate partner go-live submissions.
- Classify deployments according to Standard, Advanced, and Strategic complexity levels.
- Ensure deployments meet Okta delivery standards.
- Capture delivery feedback from Professional Services and customers.
- Serve as the delivery advisor for sales teams when identifying partners for deployments.
- Recommend partners based on capability, specialization, and deployment complexity.
- Assist in identifying partners capable of supporting complex customer architectures.
- Track ecosystem capability trends across assigned partners.
- Identify gaps in partner expertise or geographic coverage.
- Provide recommendations for partner enablement and recruitment.
- Partner closely with Professional Services on partner delivery quality feedback and co-delivery planning.
- Partner closely with Alliances to support relationship management and service delivery partner recruitment.
- Drive and track partner adoption to post-sales enablement.
What you’ll bring to the role
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise software delivery, professional services, or partner success roles.
- Experience working with system integrators or service delivery partners.
- Experience supporting enterprise software implementations.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts.
- Familiarity with enterprise SaaS deployment models.
- Understanding of partner ecosystems and implementation services.
- Ability to guide partners through complex technology implementations.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to evaluate partner capabilities and recommend improvement strategies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work with technical teams, sales teams, and executive stakeholders.
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Familiar with several programming languages.
- Familiar with open-source tools and development practices.
- Familiar with load balancers, reverse proxies, and Web Access Management tech.
- Familiar with AI GPTs
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $123,000-$169,400 USD