Director, Apj Deal Strategy

2 weeks ago

Singapore Okta Full time

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Okta is seeking a world-class deal strategy leader to partner with the APJ GTM teams to grow the business and close the best deals possible.

The APJ Deal Strategy lead will set the strategy and direction with APJ GTM leadership to help Okta scale to $4B+, driving innovative approaches and operational excellence to help the field win.


This role requires strong cross functional executive collaboration and influence along with the ability to deal with ambiguity, come up with creative solutions and drive urgency with quarterly business cadence while transforming for scale.

This leader will have team management responsibilities with the opportunity to further build out a team over time to drive scale in deal coverage and business impact.

The person in this role will work across APJ GTM leadership and cross-functional support teams such as Legal and Finance to determine the best deal structures as we ramp up the business.

This leader will drive and maintain the deal strategy and operational excellence in alignment with global best practices.

In addition, this leader will work with the broader business planning team including P&P, Business Value and Compete along with IT to support successful rollout of new offers and programs to market.

As Okta rapidly launches new innovations and expands into new markets, this role is critical to our success.

A successful leader in this role will have a combination of skills across deal strategy & management, customer negotiations, business value positioning, deal analytics, program management, communication, influencing and collaboration.


Core responsibilities will include:

  • Drive deals management strategies that will help Okta scale to $4B+ in revenue
  • Gather GTM team feedback on deal quality and velocity improvement proposals
  • Provide wellreasoned deal structuring guidelines and optimization recommendations GTM leaders across the organization and the executive team.
  • Govern commercial terms and nonstandard approvals
  • Define and evaluate Key Performance Indicators to track impact of deal strategies and guidelines
  • Support customer facing discussions where appropriate, to help sales win business.
  • SME support for deal enablement and training content for the sales team to help best position deal commercial terms and conditions with customers.
  • Provide targeted indeal support to the sales team to assist in strategic precedent setting opportunities.
  • Provide leadership to further scale and optimize the team, setting priorities to maximize impact

Required Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Business or an equivalent; MBA preferred.
  • 2 years of direct people management/team management experience.
  • Actionoriented to solve problems and get a lot done in short timeframes.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience driving complex, crossfunctional execution.
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across all levels of an organization.


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They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values:
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  • Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
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  • 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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