We’re looking for a candidate that is eager to demonstrate their ability to manage, coach, mentor, and motivate a team of driven Business Development Representatives. You should bring a proven track record of success in achieving lead generation targets and previous experience motivating teams. 

Okta’s Demand Generation team holds position at the top of the funnel for the global sales org and is the talent pipeline that feeds our Account Executives. You will align inbound lead generation goals, strategy, and tactics to our go-to-market initiatives in the marketing organization and collaborate closely with marketing, sales, and enablement groups to maximize pipeline creation.

Core Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, and develop new Business Development Representatives
• Set and define the Business Development strategy
• Maintain a strong focus on outcomes and impact
• Develop your team’s skills for prospecting, qualifying, and Opportunity creation
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, and professional development
• Closely monitor metrics with the aim to increase productivity
• Work closely with sales managers and account executives to ensure proper alignment on account coverage, target personas, opportunity quality and BDR to AE hand-off
• Articulate the business value of Okta, and maintain in-depth knowledge of the Okta platform, our competitors, and industry trends

What you’ll bring 

• 2+ years in sales or sales development or 1+ years leading a team 
• Effective presentation and listening skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make data driven decisions 
• Expertise in using Salesforce.com (other sales development tools/methodologies is a plus)
• Proven ability to effectively hire and train new people
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments and ability to operate with some level of ambiguity 
• Experience prospecting or selling into Enterprise accounts

Requirements/Qualifications

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Minimum 1+ years directly managing a team of SDR/BDR’s (startup/growth-stage experience highly preferred)
• Strong executive presence and the ability to maintain confidentiality and business ethics
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Expert in using Salesforce.com and other sales tools/products to drive productivity
• Proven ability to effectively hire and train new BDRs
• Effective presentation and listening skills
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments and ability to work through unknowns

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Okta is rethinking the traditional work environment, providing our employees with the flexibility to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, no matter where they are located.  We enable a flexible approach to work, meaning for roles where it makes sense, you can work from the office, or from home, regardless of where you live.  Okta invests in the best technologies and provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.  Find your place at Okta https://www.okta.com/company/careers/. 

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