Okta

Sr. Technical Account Manager

Okta$155K — $194K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years as a Technical Account Manager or equivalent role in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
  • Extensive knowledge of SaaS infrastructure and modern identity landscapes.
  • Familiarity with identity federation protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth), legacy and enterprise applications.
  • Experience in managing lifecycle scenarios and third-party system integrations.
  • Strong engineering intuition and operational understanding of web-scale infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Advise early-adopter customers on best practices during key product launches.
  • Operate under strict engagement rules, managing account relationships proactively.
  • Lead time-boxed sprints with customers to enhance the technical value post-sale.
  • Facilitate smooth transitions back to Core TAM teams after reaching adoption milestones.
  • Collaborate with technical teams to align customer roadmaps with product capabilities.
  • Capture and translate technical telemetry into actionable insights for product management.
  • Evaluate new software for market readiness and create operational criteria.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
  • Equity opportunities where applicable.
Full Job Description
The Okta Technical Account Management:

Technical Account Management is a global team that partners with Okta's Customer Success team and collaborates with Okta's customers to share knowledge, best practices and make recommendations to continuously innovate around identity and security.

The Global New Product Introduction (NPI) Overlay Team functions as an elite squad acting as a crucial bridge between Pre-Sales, Product and our global TAM organization. We are Okta product experts, and we enable Okta's worldwide growth by establishing repeatable adoption patterns, driving early-stage readiness, and ensuring core TAM teams are programmatically equipped to realize technical value across our newest capabilities.
The Senior Technical Account Manager Opportunity:

A Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) - New Product Introduction (NPI) Specialist Overlay serves as a highly technical overlay resource designed to build the architectural blueprints for how Okta scales its newest and most complex capabilities. This role handles a crucial dual motion consisting of NPI via time-boxed, sprint-based engagements to establish repeatable adoption patterns, and Specialist Overlay via targeted interventions for existing product sets that show a deficit in market adoption . The overlay specialist steps into high-stakes, ambiguous technical environments, drives early-stage adoption, packages learnings into scalable systems, and exits cleanly so the broader global TAM organization can execute independently.

The TAM specialisation requires an understanding of hybrid scenarios that capitalize on Okta's ability to manage authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management capabilities for SaaS, on-premise, and custom enterprise applications.
You Will:
  • Advise early-adopter customers on architectural best practices and product adoption during high-priority product launch windows.
  • Operate within strict Rules of Engagement (ROE) where the Core TAM retains ultimate account ownership, proactively managing potential friction or overlapping responsibilities.
  • Lead targeted, time-boxed technical sprints with high-value customers to bridge the technical value gap post-sale.
  • Execute structured account handbacks to Core TAM teams using established transition and exit criteria once defined adoption thresholds or playbooks are met.
  • Partner effectively with neighboring technical motions, such as the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, to align strategic customer roadmaps with product capability rollouts.
  • Capture high-fidelity technical telemetry directly from early adopters, translating raw field friction into actionable, ARR-weighted product signals for Product Management and Engineering.
  • Coordinate closely with Product Acceleration Team (PAT) specialists to smoothly transition technical workloads into the TAM organization.
  • Evaluate early-stage software and co-author the operational "Go/No-Go" criteria that dictate when an NPI capability is ready for broad TAM support.
  • Act as an elite response squad during high-priority NPI launches to prioritize accounts, absorb heavy technical workloads, and unburden core TAM teams during early performance regressions.
  • Document repeatable adoption patterns, configuration models, and expansion triggers into structured engineering playbooks to move beyond 1:1 consulting deep dives.
  • Partner directly with the TAM 1:Many / Knowledge Scaling function to design and deliver programmatic content, scaling your specialized expertise to make over 100+ global TAMs proficient in new solutions.
Requirements:
  • 8+ years of total experience in information technology, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience as a Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or comparable practitioner role in the IAM space.
  • Deep technical credibility and domain expertise in SaaS infrastructure, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and modern Identity landscapes.
  • Working proficiency in the following core IAM areas:
    • Technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
    • Legacy applications in a hybrid IT environment with non-standard applications (i.e. those that do not support modern identity federation protocols).
    • Enterprise applications in the ecosystem to provide identity and attributes to applications or to harness an external application to help drive business processes (ITSM, HR, etc).
    • SaaS deployment such as Salesforce, Box, Office 365, Workday and HR as master for identities.
    • Lifecycle management scenarios to 3rd party systems and applications (Workflows, HR-driven provisioning, MSFT integrations, SCIM, etc).
    • Security and performance monitoring, and 3rd party signals integrations (SEIM, MDM, WAF, etc).
  • Clear engineering intuition to instantly distinguish a customer configuration gap from a core platform defect or a systemic load constraint like Requests Per Second (RPS) limits.
  • Strong operational understanding of web-scale infrastructure dimensions including Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
  • Proven product intuition with the ability to look at a chaotic customer environment, extract underlying technical friction, and translate it into a data-backed business case for Product Managers.
  • Exceptional EQ and diplomatic skills to handle sensitive customer escalations, navigate a matrixed global organization without direct authority, and resolve cross-team friction.
  • Builder mindset with a history of success turning unstructured, early-stage ambiguity into clean, repeatable systems, metrics, and processes.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to set expectations and communicate goals and objectives with customers at various levels, from a developer to a CIO.
  • This position can be located remotely but may require some travel (under 20% of the time).
Education:
  • BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline OR equivalent work experience required.


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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:

$160,000-$200,000 USD

Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can.

The annual OTE (On Target Earning) range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:

$155,000-$194,000 CAD

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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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