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# Area Sales Director, Corporate Sales- New Accounts (Auth0) at Okta

- **Company:** Okta
- **Location:** Chicago, IL / San Francisco, CA / Washington, DC
- **Compensation:** $366k–$547k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://www.okta.com/company/careers/opportunity/8351216?gh_jid=8351216

## Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Corporate Sales Team

Okta’s Corporate Sales Team manages the sales process for small to medium-sized customers. The team organizes and conducts sales presentations, site visits and product demonstrations to prospects and represents Okta in a consistent, effective and professional manner to best develop and win new clients and current customers.

The Corporate ASD Opportunity

The  Area Sales Director of Corporate is responsible for the development and business results of a team of quota-carrying Account Executives in their region. The right Sales Leader for this position should have the ability to increase the productivity of account executives through skill development, adherence to activity standards, providing inspiration, rapid conflict resolution and building a highly empowered, constructive sales culture. We’re looking for a strong leader to take it to the next level.

What you’ll be doing:

- Manage the day-to-day operations of a Corporate sales team and ensure quarterly revenue targets and monthly goals are achieved.
- Manage and optimize the team pipeline, ensuring that it is healthy, accurate, and up-to-date.
- Adopts consistent forecast management processes aligned to global standards, accurately and often communicating their forecasts to their leaders.
- Actively engage in territory planning and opportunity development.
- Build and maintain a high-impact team that drives value through diverse capabilities, a shared purpose or common goal, and an environment of trust and collaboration.
- Lead with curiosity by providing impactful, dynamic coaching and feedback to drive direct professional development and performance of each AE.
- Exemplify team selling and cross-functional collaboration by leveraging the full power of Okta and our partners, ensuring the customer achieves maximum value.
- Facilitate and influence decision-maker or executive-level customer conversations as necessary, using their economic, financial, product, integration/ISV architecture, and industry expertise to support and drive decision-making and deliver value.
- Identify new, innovative ways to improve processes and drive revenue growth, taking calculated risks and experiments with new strategies or tactics.
- Expertly communicate ideas, directives, and guidance to team members and the entire organization, with particular focus on providing clarity and distilling critical information amidst noise.
- Enforce operationally sound cadences and expectations, holding themselves, their team, and partners accountable.

What you’ll bring to the role:

- 7+ years of experience in selling within the SaaS B2B space
- Proven track record of leading a team focused in prospecting and identifying opportunities for growth to secure new logos
- 2+ years of experience managing a team of quota-carrying SaaS sales professionals
- Ability to build trust and strong relationships with internal partners and ecosystem
- Strong customer-facing and presentation skills; executive-level communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel approximately 25%
- BS/BA degree strongly preferred
- Must be located in territory

*This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office during the first week of employment

#LI-Remote

## SRCASDNB1

The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $365,500—$547,000 USD

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $365,500—$547,000 USD

The Okta Experience

- [Supporting Your Well-Being](http://rewards.okta.com)
- [Driving Social Impact](https://www.okta.com/company/okta-for-good/)
- [Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community](https://www.okta.com/company/talent-connection-community/)

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please [use this Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EfiEYZrIyhA2X4Fijk0R3RKYOzNoS3wtvyM4nhbZnXE/edit) to request an accommodation.

Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please [click here](https://talent.okta.com/new-york-city-aedt-notice.html) to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

## About Okta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Okta is The World’s Identity Company™, providing cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions that securely connect people to technology, now extended to AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: OKTA)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (two-thirds of the Fortune 100, major government agencies), SMBs, and developer teams (via Auth0)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Free everyone to safely use any technology.”

## Products & Services
- **[Okta Workforce Identity](https://www.okta.com/)**: Cloud-based IAM for employees, contractors, and partners – includes single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), lifecycle management, and privileged access controls. (SaaS)
- **[Okta Customer Identity (Auth0)](https://www.okta.com/)**: Developer-friendly platform for authenticating and authorizing users in consumer and SaaS applications. (SaaS/API)
- **[Okta for AI Agents](https://www.okta.com/)**: A new offering that brings AI agents into the identity security fabric – enables discovery, onboarding, protection, and governance of machine identities. (SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources (publicly traded; refer to stock exchange data).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not publicly available in provided sources.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided materials; the company highlights that two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and thousands of organizations trust Okta [okta.com/company](https://www.okta.com/company/).
- **Growth Signals**: Strong push into AI agent security; “Always secure. Always on.” commitment; global presence in 15 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments – a deeply embedded identity standard.
- Comprehensive platform covering both workforce and customer identity under one fabric.
- Pioneering the identity framework for AI agents, creating a new moat in the machine-identity space.
- **Okta Secure Identity Commitment (OSIC)** – a long-term pledge to lead against identity-based attacks, reinforcing reliability and transparency.

## Strategic Focus
- Securing the “agentic enterprise” by extending identity governance to AI agents.
- Continuous innovation in IAM to address emerging threats (phishing, AI-powered attacks).
- Expanding the Auth0 developer ecosystem and deepening integrations with cloud platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven (“Love our customers,” “Always secure. Always on.,” “Build and own it,” “Drive what’s next”). Strong emphasis on security, ownership, and customer success [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/).
- **Work model**: Hybrid and remote-friendly – listings show “US Remote,” “UK Remote,” and office locations in 15 countries (e.g., San Francisco, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Bengaluru) [okta.com/company/careers/job-listing](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/job-listing/).
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), flexible PTO, professional development resources, and social impact programs (Okta for Good, 1% Pledge) [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/?gh_src=7j0um41).
- **Engineering culture**: Teams build secure, reliable systems at scale; early career programs and a focus on AI identity security offer cutting-edge challenges.

## Sources
1. [okta.com](https://www.okta.com/)
2. [okta.com/company](https://www.okta.com/company/)
3. [okta.com/company/careers](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/)
4. [okta.com/company/careers (benefits)](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/?gh_src=7j0um41)
5. [okta.com/company/careers/job-listing](https://www.okta.com/company/careers/job-listing/)

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