Senior Manager, Presales Strategy & Operations

Okta Inc

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WAChicago, ILSan Francisco, CAWashington, DC
Salary
$186,000–$256,000 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $191k
This role $221k
$136k most similar roles pay here $269k

This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $166,464–$214,900 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $221k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 137 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$239,000 across 137 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Presales Strategy & Operations

As a Senior Manager, Presales Strategy & Operations, you will join the Revenue Strategy and Operations team to drive operational excellence across the global presales organization. You will lead a high-performing team of analysts and managers while serving as a strategic executive partner to Global Presales leadership. Your daily responsibilities include designing strategic roadmaps, managing engagement pipeline strategy, conducting technical forecasting, and overseeing quota and capacity planning. To succeed, you must possess advanced Salesforce expertise, including CRM architecture, custom reports, and automated workflows. You will also utilize tools like Tableau, SQL, Anaplan, or Gong to translate complex data into actionable insights. This role focuses on solving the challenge of scaling customer-centric operations by building robust frameworks, improving sales productivity, and ensuring cross-functional alignment across marketing, sales, and customer success teams within a high-growth SaaS environment.

What you'll do

  • Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of presales strategy and operations professionals.
  • Serve as the primary strategic partner to Global Presales leaders regarding pipeline strategy and technical forecasting.
  • Design and implement coverage models, quota planning, territory design, and go-to-market segmentation.
  • Coordinate cross-functional alignment between Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partner Alliances.
  • Establish scalable process improvements and maintain documentation for the global presales organization.
  • Conduct business reviews with executive leadership to identify performance gaps and project opportunities.
  • Analyze complex data sets to create actionable long-term plans for sales productivity.
  • Manage Salesforce architecture, including custom reports, dashboards, and automated workflows.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of experience in an analytical, strategy, or operations role at a high-growth SaaS company.
  • Must have at least 2+ years of direct people management experience.
  • Must possess advanced Salesforce expertise including dashboards, reports, custom report types, and CRM architecture.
  • Must have exceptional quantitative skills using MS Excel or Google Sheets.
  • Must be able to build and deploy automation workflows with emerging AI tools.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to influence and present solutions to VP and C-level executives.
  • Must be willing to travel to other offices approximately once per quarter for collaboration.

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