In this role, you will be the senior individual contributor for Okta’s Commercial Legal team in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. You will have primary responsibility for advising and supporting the sales and professional services organizations in two key areas:

1. Okta’s largest enterprise customers across the region; and 
2. Okta’s emerging presence in ASEAN countries and India.

You will also use your expertise to support more junior Commercial Legal colleagues who cover specific regions within APJ. You will apply your experience when providing strong legal guidance, structuring complex deals, and drafting and negotiating SaaS Subscription Agreements and related commercial documents with some of the biggest names across every industry who trust Okta to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.

What you’ll be doing:

• Primary responsibility to advise, draft, and negotiate outbound SaaS master subscription agreements, and other types of ancillary commercial documents related to the sales cycle, such as amendments, NDAs and SOWs, for large, strategic accounts, including customers in highly-regulated industries (e.g., global banking, finance, and healthcare) and also for accounts in Okta’s emerging business in ASEAN and India.

• Act as point-of-contact and escalation for the SVP and General Manager of the APJ region;

• Provide expert guidance and support to the other members of the APJ Commercial Legal Team;

• Co-ordinate and align the practices of the APJ Commercial Legal Team within region and also with other regions globally;

• Provide day-to-day legal support and respond promptly and effectively to legal requests from sales and other internal clients. 

• Partner with revenue recognition, deal desk, sales operations, privacy and security, and other internal stakeholder teams to ensure negotiated agreements are consistent with internal Okta policies and processes. 

• Build critical relationships with sales and legal colleagues and key stakeholders to effectively provide practical legal and strategic advice to assist the business in meeting its objectives. 

• Advise on recommended courses of action and legal risks. 

• Ability to judge when to escalate identified issues as may be necessary. 

• Support continuous improvement of standard form legal templates, playbooks, policies and legal processes related to commercial transactions. 

• Support go-to-market tasks and willingness to drive and contribute to other interesting legal projects, as may be required.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 7+ years of relevant transactional legal experience negotiating and drafting enterprise-level technology agreements, including SaaS subscription agreements, cloud services agreements, technology licenses, and professional services agreements, statements of work, ordering documents, NDAs, amendments and related commercial documents. 

• 4+ years of in-house experience with a large technology vendor providing transactional legal support. 

• Significant experience providing commercial legal support to sales teams calling on large, strategic enterprise accounts in APJ, including those in highly-regulated industries (e.g., finance, banking, healthcare, etc). 

• Proven track record of managing multiple complex deals with the ability to organize, prioritize deadlines and perform effectively in a fast-paced, fiscal quarter focused work environment. 

• Articulate communicator with confidence advising senior sales leadership and internal stakeholders on complex commercial issues. 

• Strong experience and demonstrated knowledge of the SaaS business model, revenue recognition principles, enterprise cloud computing, complex deal structures and related data privacy and security frameworks with a focus on regulated industries. 

• Deal urgency and interest in supporting revenue transactions. 

• Sound legal and business judgment, excellent drafting ability, and the ability to think strategically and give practical advice while appropriately weighing legal and business objectives. 

• Flexible and adaptable, with an eagerness to learn and grow in a highly dynamic environment. 

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across diverse teams. 

• Personable, self-motivated team player, willing to roll up their sleeves to get work done and have fun while doing it. 

• Strong academic background and current ability to practice in an APJ jurisdiction.

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Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with the regional sales team to develop strategic and technical account and territory plans
• Support our customers along their sales journey by showing them the value of the Okta technology through live demonstrations and sales presentations.
• Developing confidence to communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the customer's organization, including CxO, security, developers, Product Managers and IT administrators.
• Serving as the key technical advisor for our customers, leading the technical solutioning phase for our customers, partnering with the sales team and our partners.  Acting as the Technical Advocate for our customers, with Internal Okta teams.
• Execute well-defined, outcome-focussed POCs
• Build and manage technical relationships with Okta Customers, Technology Partners and Delivery Partners.
• Participate in Okta Marketing led events, as a Speaker / Thought Leader and an attendee
• Enjoy travelling and meeting customers. Travel will be mainly domestic.  There may also be opportunities to travel to other Asia Pacific countries to support teammates; and within the US for training and conferences.  

Skills & experiences that will help in the role:

• Minimum of 1-2 years experience in a pre-sales consulting role, or customer facing consulting role.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal, and an ability to quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, using various means, including in front of a whiteboard.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the customer's organisation, including CxO, security, developers, and IT administrators.
• Ability to be organised and analytical, and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches
• A passion to be in the forefront of technology, learning a diverse set of technologies that Okta integrates with and helping solve real world Identity challenges
• Enjoy being in a fast paced environment, operating at the speed of cloud, to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud, rapid adoption of technology and design their Zero Trust security strategy with Identity as the foundation.

You might also have (not mandatory):

• Experience with Identity & Access Management, Single Sign-on, Security and API-based solutions
• Experience with at least one standard network security protocol (eg. OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP)
• Proficient in either IT Security, Identity and Access Management or Developer domains
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field
• Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: web development (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks), mobile development (iOS, Android), backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications
• Software developer experience

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Auth0 Sales Team

Auth0 supports Okta’s vision of freeing anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of log-ins every year for Consumer and SaaS applications. As a Public Sector Auth0 AE, you will drive territory growth through both net new logos and cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Auth0 customers. With the support of your Okta ecosystem, your focus will be on consistent results and an unwavering commitment to our customers.

Auth0 is an Enterprise-grade IRAP-assessed Customer Identity Access Management system (CIAM) relied upon by many of the region's Government and Highly Regulated agencies to make login seamless, simple and secure.

Public Sector Account Executive, Auth0 

The successful candidate is a highly motivated, self-driven, and senior Public Sector sales executive who is passionate about winning key new logos, about engineering and product technology, and about driving protection against the biggest identity threats.

As an Auth0 Account Executive, you will be working with the most important government agencies delivering digital citizen services, enhancing the experience of liaising with and using government 3.0 services. Auth0 is focused on providing value to Product Development teams (Engineering, Product, Security and Architecture). You will continually drive territory growth primarily through net new logo acquisition as well as through cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Auth0 customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build a 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
• Demonstrable skills in creating compelling artefacts, documents and presentations to convey ideas
• Highly experienced in Executive Stakeholder alignment and running Quarterly Business Reviews
• Scope, negotiate and close agreements to meet and exceed revenue quota targets
• Holistically embrace, access, and utilize partners to identify and open opportunities
• Build and nurture effective working partnerships within your Okta ecosystem (xDRs, Partners, Presales, Customer First, etc) – with a proven track record of partnering with key SIs and AWS
• Travel as necessary to build and cultivate customer and prospect relationships

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 10+ years success in growing revenue for sophisticated, complex Public Sector and enterprise focused SaaS products
• Ability to evangelize, educate and create demand within Product, Digital and Engineering organizations, with a strong track record of pitching and closing to Product, Engineering, and Architecture decision makers
• Deep technical discovery skills that resonate with the developer community (you must have a strong grasp of product development lifecycle, DevOps, engineering terminology, product management)
• Strong technical acumen with proven ability to connect a technical sale to a company’s business and transformation outcomes
• Impeccable business accumen and outstanding communication and presentation skills with audiences of all levels (both Practitioners and Executives) and all technical aptitudes, with attention to detail
• Prior experience working with and facilitating large transformational Engineering, Product and Digital initiatives
• Confident and self-driven with the humility required to successfully work in teams
• Proven record of out-of-the-box thinking to open up new logos and win transformative opportunities
• Expertise using a Sales Framework such as MEDDPICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)
• Consistently high-level energy, rigour and accuracy with forecasting and opportunity hygiene management.

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