Customer Success Executive
Okta is hiring a Customer Success Executive in San Francisco, United States. It pays $204k-$281k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Okta.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this customer service role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The listed pay starts 104% above the typical customer service posting on Level.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include customer success, account management and relationship management.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 389 other open roles at Okta.
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Drive customer success, retention, and strategic value for enterprise clients at Okta.
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About the role:
The Customer Success Executive - Enterprise role will play a critical part in the exciting growth and retention trajectory of the Enterprise 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 10+ 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%.
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The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:$204,000—$281,000 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.
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How we rate this
Customer Success Executive at Okta rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
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- $204k
- Typical customer service job
- $100k
This posting starts 104% above the typical customer service job. See customer service jobs
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- Tell me about a project where customer success was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where account management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where relationship management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where enterprise sales was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Customer Success, Account Management, Relationship Management, and Enterprise Sales. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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