Senior Solution Identity Specialist(Endpoint Identity Specialist)

The Global Presales team

The Global Presales organization at Okta brings together a diverse group of experts, including Solutions Engineers, the Office of the Field CTO, Alliances, Architects, and more, who combine deep technical expertise with strategic business insight. This team serves as trusted advisors to a wide range of customers and partners, helping them unlock the full potential of Okta’s Identity Platform. By asking insightful questions, understanding complex challenges, and delivering tailored solutions, we empower organizations to address their unique identity needs. Empathy, collaboration, and a relentless focus on customer success drive our work and set us apart.

Identity Senior Solution Specialist -Endpoint & Identity Security

As a Senior Solution Specialist, you will be part of the presales team that delivers sales presentations and product demonstrations to educate customers on the best ways to implement Okta identity and access management solutions. You will report to the Manager in the OFCTO organization. 

What you’ll be doing 

1. Strategic Customer Engagement:
• Support strategic customer conversations aligning with technical and engineering leaders and stakeholders.
• Deliver on emerging trends, industry best practices, and identity-driven digital transformation.
• Assist in preparing executive-level messaging and participate in strategic discussions to align Okta’s solutions with customer business outcomes.
• Develop customer-centric points of view that translate Okta’s solutions to customer problems.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with security and infrastructure leaders to uncover challenges related to endpoint security, passwordless adoption, and identity threat vectors.
• Deliver compelling, customized demonstrations and architectural sessions focused on Okta Device Access (including Okta FastPass, Desktop MFA) and our Identity Threat Protection capabilities.
• Design and execute outcome-focused Proof of Concepts (POCs) that prove Okta’s value in preventing account takeovers and securing access from any device.
• Maintain a broad and deep technical understanding of the Okta identity product lines and the underlying technologies and protocols
• Craft engaging solution content to position Okta’s value across multiple business units, including software engineering, operations, product management, and business stakeholders

Asset Delivery:

• Create and maintain reusable and purpose built demonstration system to be leveraged by all of presales
• Create and maintain diagrams and documentation to support patterns and strategies
• Build templates for proofs of concept and other unique customer engagement demands
• Create and maintain A.I. based delivery and enablement functionality
1. Technical Leadership:
• Provide strategic and technical guidance to Solutions Engineering teams across both the Okta and Auth0 identity platforms.
• Collaborate with the Global Office of Field CTO office team to deliver actionable insights from the field, validate customer needs, and identify recurring trends for the Okta Product & Eng