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At Okta, our Customer Experience Center hosts the leadership of our most valued prospects, customers, and partners to understand their strategic priorities and align on how Okta serves as a strategic partner in driving their overall business success. Our Executive Briefings are the face of Okta – showcasing our vision, product innovation, and culture while building lasting strategic partnerships.
We are looking for an experienced Executive Briefing Program Manager to drive the strategy and end-to-end execution of executive briefings at our flagship HQ center in San Francisco. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct exposure to executive leadership across Okta and our enterprise customer portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Ownership: Own the briefing strategy for our flagship San Francisco center, measuring success and regularly reporting out ROI and pipeline impact to executive stakeholders.
- Briefing Execution: Lead high-touch briefing engagements from initial request to post-briefing follow-up, ensuring an exceptional, white-glove experience.
- GTM & Account Team Partnership: Collaborate with Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, and Solutions Engineers to define briefing objectives, customize agendas, build prep materials, and facilitate pre-briefing alignment and post-brief ing debriefs.
- Executive Speaker Management: Source, prep, and manage internal discussion leaders (VP+ and C-Suite); continuously cultivate and enable a network of top-tier internal speakers.
- Operations & Reporting: Maintain post-briefing tracking and metrics in Salesforce (or briefing management tools) to measure opportunity influence and deal acceleration.
- Logistics & Alignment: Partner closely with Workplace and AV/IT teams to ensure seamless center operations and flawless day-of delivery.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years in Go-To-Market roles (Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, Field Marketing) and/or running high-stakes Executive Briefing Centers for enterprise tech/SaaS companies.
- Executive Presence: Proven track record of consulting with and advising VPs and C-Suite executives (both internal and customer-facing).
- Enterprise Business Acumen: Deep understanding of complex B2B sales cycles and how tailored briefing content moves accounts from evaluation to closed-won.
Technical & Tooling Skills: Experience using briefing management platforms and core enterprise toolstacks— hands-on experience with BriefingSource, Google Drive, Salesforce, and Tableau is a strong plus.
- Mindset: High-agency, detail-oriented self-starter who thrives in fast-paced environments, anticipates risks before they happen, and delivers white-glove service.
- Communication: Flawless written and verbal communication skills with a knack for distilling complex topics into compelling executive narratives.
- Travel & Location: Based in San Francisco with a minimum of 2 days/week in the office (up to 25% travel required, including international).
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, 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.
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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.
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Okta San Francisco, California, USA Office
100 1st St, San Francisco, CA, United States
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