Okta is looking for a Regional Partner Development Representative for our Emerging Partner Route-to-Market with strong prospecting and relationship development  experience to accelerate our Regional Partner and Alliance ecosystem. This will be a remote role, with focus across the US.  The objective is to build and strengthen Okta’s partner channels across the US, helping deliver accelerated revenue growth. 

The ideal candidate will be a team player, who possesses a strong sales and alliances background,  enabling them to engage with partner sales organizations at the VP/SVP level. In this role the candidate would interact with a wide variety of companies who operate with different business models and marketing strategies (e.g. resellers, referral partners, systems integrators, and ISV’s), as well as Okta’s field sales teams. The candidate will be laser focused on strategically identifying and building long-term and scalable Go-to-Market partnerships in the Emerging ecosystem, to drive the pipeline and revenue generation.

The candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus. We are looking for candidates that are creative, aggressive, and looking to expand and advance their alliance sales careers.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with Okta Sales team to define Go-to-Market plan for partners in assigned Territories.
• Recruit, enable and manage a set of Emerging Partners in assigned territory.
• Engage and connect focused ISV partners in-region and ensure enablement of value proposition, integration and leverage to drive joint pipeline.
• Assist Sales and Partners in quoting and closing high volume of transactions via channel.
• Build strong working relationships with Okta Sales, Service, Marketing and Enablement Teams.
• Enable key partners to contribute to pipeline generation and deliver Sourced deals in order to achieve defined targets.
• Manage and report demand generation, enablement, and pipeline on a regular basis.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Minimum 2 years working in sales, Channels or BDR capacity.
• Understanding of Channel Sales.
• Understanding of Technology Alliance Partner ecosystems with ability to articulate the value Technology Alliances represent. 
• Track record of having and achieving quotas.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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