Corporate Account Executive South Africa

The Okta Sales Team

Okta has a vision to free anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of Workforce and Customer log-ins every year. As an Okta AE, you will drive territory growth through both net new logos and cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Okta Platform customers. With the support of your Okta ecosystem, your focus will be on consistent results and an unwavering commitment to our customers.

The South Africa Corporate Sales team is growing!

Our South Africa team is based out of Dublin and has seen huge transformation and growth in the last couple of years. We have an incredible opportunity to win the identity market with our already market leading technology.

The Corporate Sales Account Executive Opportunity - South Africa

The successful Okta Account Executive is a highly motivated, self-driven, and experienced Account Executive who is passionate about security and about driving protection against the biggest identity threats.

As an Okta AE, you will be focused on providing value to C-Suite decision makers on their ability to drive the most secure environment possible for their workforce. You will consistently drive territory growth through driving both net new logos and cultivating and growing existing Okta customers. You will continually drive territory growth through both net new logos as well as through cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Okta & Auth0 customers.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Establish a vision and plan to guide your long-term approach to net new logo pipeline generation


• Consistently deliver revenue targets to support YoY territory growth


• Identify, develop and execute account strategies to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings


• Identify, target and gain access to appropriate leaders in prospect accounts, building and cultivating your network of decision makers


• Scope, negotiate and close agreements to consistently meet and exceed revenue quota targets


• Holistically embrace, access, and utilize Okta partners to identify and open new, uncharted opportunities


• Build and nurture effective working partnerships within your Okta ecosystem (xDRs, Partners, Presales, Customer First, etc)


• Adopt a strong value based sales approach, always looking to bring a compelling point of view to each customer


• Travel as necessary to build and cultivate customer and prospect relationships. Expectation to also be present in our Dublin office for collaboration and training purposes.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 3 + years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex enterprise SaaS solutions.


• Ability to evangelize, educate and create demand with C-level decision makers


• Ability to navigate complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders from both the customer base and within the internal ecosystem


• Proven success selling into C-suite and building partnership and buy-in with multiple stakeholders


• Significant experience selling in partnership with GSI’s & the wider partner ecosystem


• Excellent communication and presentation skills with audiences of all levels and all technical aptitudes


• Confident and self driven with the humility required to successfully work in teams


• Expertise using a Sales Framework such as MEDDICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)


• Local language skills is a plus

As a Corporate Account Executive you will:

• Position Okta Workforce cloud solutions to South African organisations.


• Build and execute on a strong territory plan for your accounts in region


• Target companies in the Corporate to lower Enterprise segment.


• Focus on winning new logos with a land and expand mentality


• Deliver outstanding customer experience to ensure renewals, and capitalise on upsell opportunities.


• Adopt strong rhythm and process using MEDDPICC to manage and close complex deals.


• Become an expert on the Okta & Auth0 value proposition and be comfortable positioning this with both technical and executive level stakeholders.


• Partner with internal functions and manage who and when people are brought into the sales cycle, typically with Solutions Engineering, Alliances, Marketing, Business Value Management and Professional Services (which we call Customer First)

You could be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Experience selling a SaaS product in the South African market


• Sold to organisations in the corporate space


• A results driven, hunter mentality with a strong prospecting process


• Experience using a sales methodology such as MEDDIC


• Strong forecasting rigour


• Passion for technology and how it can help organisations compete and thrive in the Digital Age;


• Experience in value-based selling at senior/C-Level


• The ability to travel to Africa, including customer & partner sites, and visits to our EMEA HQ in London, and the US

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