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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 Okta Vision Okta’s vision is to enable anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade identity platform. Our technology secures billions of workforce logins each year. At Okta, we empower our Account Executives from day one with a world-class onboarding experience, ongoing development, and a culture of support and collaboration. The Opportunity: Strategic Account Executive We are looking for a high-performing, self-motivated Account Executive with a passion for cybersecurity and helping organisations protect against evolving identity threats. As AI adoption accelerates, identity is becoming even more critical. Organisations now need to secure not only employees and customers, but also non-human identities such as service accounts, automation tools, API keys, and AI agents. Okta helps customers bring these identities into a unified Identity Security Fabric, enabling greater visibility, governance, and secure access across the full identity lifecycle. At Okta, you’ll join a company helping define the future of identity security in an AI-driven world, supported by strong onboarding, ongoing development, and a culture of collaboration from day one. As an Strategic Account Executive at Okta, you will work closely with C-suite decision-makers to demonstrate how our platform drives secure, seamless access across their workforce. Your focus will be on both new business acquisition and expansion within our existing

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in Sydney, Australia. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Manage a portfolio of customer accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan. Support your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment and through to renewal. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Own a revenue target. Manage revenue forecasts. Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders. Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies. Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people op

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role This role is part of our ANZ Mid-Market team which will own both named account pursuits and executing programmatic sales via OpenAI partners. You’ll be a key driver of writing the playbook for Mid-Market in APAC as an AI Native Sales team. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in Sydney. In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive regional go to market plan Win lighthouse accounts through outbound sales outreach Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a consumption revenue target Manage consumption revenue forecasts Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates Support the development of company culture We're seeking someone with experience including: 7+ years of direct selling experience in Data and AI or Cloud Designing and executing complex go to market strategies Orchestrating programmatic sales motions with partners Experience operating in fast paced, high growth environments Working directly with c-level executives Leading high-visibility customer events (CAB, conferences, product launches, etc.) Hands on experience with AI tools You might thrive in this role if you: Are customer-cent