Okta

Customer Success Manager

Okta$116K — $178K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of customer success, account management, or consulting experience with large enterprises.
  • Proven ability to deliver and scale exceptional customer experiences.
  • Strong emotional intelligence for managing executive relationships.
  • Exceptional presentation and communication skills for C-level engagement.
  • Good analytical skills to understand customer priorities and anticipate needs.
  • Interpersonal skills for collaborative teamwork across functions.
  • Technical problem-solving skills, preferably with enterprise security tools.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and nurture customer and C-Level relationships to understand business goals and ensure retention.
  • Design and execute proactive success plans with clear goals and KPIs to create measurable traction.
  • Champion customers internally and collaborate with cross-functional partners to resolve issues.
  • Gather and surface customer feedback for continuous improvement.
  • Identify new relevant products and help customers adopt Okta's features.
  • Spot renewal risks and work with internal teams to ensure successful renewals and expansion opportunities.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
  • Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
  • Equity options where applicable.
  • Comprehensive onboarding experience to connect with the team.
Full Job Description
About the role:

The Customer Success Manager role will play a critical part in the exciting growth and retention trajectory of the Commercial Sector at Okta. You will report to the Regional Manager, Customer Success and be responsible for complementing Okta's innovations, best practices, and capabilities with our valued customers' business objectives and priorities. As a strategic and trusted advisor, you will shift customer mindsets, create demand for our solutions, and drive higher business value and executive alignment between Okta and our customers.

The ideal candidate embodies a high-performance mindset-consistently raising the bar, turning action into traction, thriving in change, and moving fast to simplify and repeat. It requires complementing Okta's innovations, efficiencies and capabilities with our valued customers' business objectives and priorities thereby driving higher business value and executive alignment between Okta and our customers, but it also demands a leader who can navigate these constraints with urgency and an obsession for concrete outcomes. Strong problem-solving, orchestration, and consultative skills are necessary for navigating challenges, finding innovative solutions, and winning as a team.

In this role, you will:
  • Deliver Customer Value: Develop and nurture strong customer and C-Level relationships to understand their business goals and needs, ensuring retention, happiness, and a significant return on investment. Cement yourself as a trusted and strategic advisor, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business outcomes.
  • Drive for results: Design and execute proactive success plans and Strategic Business Reviews (SBRs) with clear goals, KPIs, and timelines-turning strategy into measurable traction.
  • Win as a team: Champion customers internally and mobilize cross-functional partners across Sales, Support, Engineering, and Product to resolve escalations and lead coordinated success motions.
  • Represent the customer's voice: Gather and surface feedback that drives continuous improvement, actively challenging what needs to evolve.
  • Guide customers forward: Identify and communicate relevant new products and features, helping customers adopt and benefit from Okta's agentic capabilities.
  • Identify renewal risk and collaborate with internal teams to remediate, ensure a successful renewal, and proactively spot expansion opportunities.

You will thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 3+ years of experience in a customer success, account management, or consulting role, managing relationships with large, complex enterprises (preferably working with a SaaS-based technical enterprise product).
  • Have a solid track record of delivering and scaling an exceptional customer experience, choosing ambition over comfort and consistently raising your own bar.
  • Demonstrate strong emotional intelligence and an elite level of relationship management and executive stakeholder development.
  • Possess exceptional presentation and communication skills, particularly when engaging with C-level executives to align technical goals with business value.
  • Have strong listening and analytical skills with the demonstrated ability to ask effective questions, dive deep, understand the customer's business priorities, and anticipate their needs.
  • Exhibit strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally to win as a team.
  • Have good technical and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to provide quick resolution to problems. Experience in enterprise security tools is preferred.
  • Are willing to travel up to 25%.



#LI-TP2

The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$130,000-$178,000 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:

$116,000-$159,500 USD

The Okta Experience
  • Supporting Your Well-Being
  • Driving Social Impact
  • Developing Talent and Fostering 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.

About Okta

Okta is a leading provider of identity and access management solutions for enterprises. The company's cloud-based platform enables organizations to securely connect people and technology, providing secure access to applications and data from any device, anywhere, at any time. Okta's solutions are used by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Okta is committed to providing innovative solutions that help organizations stay secure and productive in today's digital world.
Learn more about Okta
Size
5,342 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.3 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+51.9%
Revenue
$835.4 million
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