Okta

Enterprise Account Executive

The World's Identity Company

  • Sales and customer success

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Okta gives you a neutral, powerful and extensible platform that puts identity at the heart of your stack. No matter what industry, use case, or level of support you need, we’ve got you covered.

About the role

The Okta Vision Okta’s vision is to enable anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade identity platform. Our technology secures billions of workforce logins each year.

At Okta, we empower our Account Executives from day one with a world-class onboarding experience, ongoing development, and a culture of support and collaboration.

The Opportunity: Enterprise Account Executive We are looking for a high-performing, self-motivated Account Executive with a passion for cybersecurity and helping organisations protect against evolving identity threats.

As an Enterprise Account Executive at Okta, you will work closely with C-suite decision-makers to demonstrate how our platform drives secure, seamless access across their workforce. Your focus will be on both new business acquisition and expansion within our existing customer base.

Territory: A mix of new logos and existing customers across NSW, along with the New Zealand market.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Define and execute a clear territory plan with long-term strategic goals and growth targets.
  • Lead a cross-functional virtual team, including Partners, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, Renewals, Services, and Business Development.
  • Drive consistent pipeline generation and revenue growth, meeting or exceeding quarterly targets.
  • Build strong, strategic relationships with customers in NSW and New Zealand, earning trusted advisor status.
  • Champion Okta’s value through executive-level presentations, tailored demonstrations, and strategic engagements.
  • Establish yourself as a thought leader in identity, security, and cloud transformation.
  • Represent and embody Okta’s core values:_ Love Our Customers, Always Secure, Always On, Build and Own It, and Drive What’s Next_.
  • Travel as needed to engage customers and key stakeholders.

What you’ll bring:

  • 10+ years of field sales experience, consistently exceeding targets in complex sales environments.
  • A proven track record of selling enterprise SaaS solutions to Enterprise organisations.
  • Experience working with GSIs and partner channels to drive aligned customer success.
  • Strong new business development skills, with deep account planning and execution capabilities.
  • A curious, adaptable mindset with a passion for learning and innovation.
  • Excellent executive presence and communication skills, capable of influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with solution selling and frameworks like MEDDPICC is preferred.
  • Sydney-based.
  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Outbound Prospecting

    Generate new sales opportunities and move them through the funnel by drafting outreach messages and sequences, and identifying the needs of customers

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    Sales Pipeline Management

    Efficiently navigate the CRM and other operational tools to create, update, retrieve, and understand information about accounts and opportunities

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    Sales Team Enablement

    Identify opportunities to enhance processes and resources that enable team performance and time spent with prospects or customers

Skills you'll need

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    Results orientation

    Focuses on outcomes and the steps it takes to achieve them

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    Critical thinking

    Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

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    Problem solving

    Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems

Meet the team

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