Sr Director of Global Deal Strategy

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The Sr Director of Global Deal Strategy Opportunity

Okta is seeking a Sr Director of Global Deal Strategy to lead a high-impact global function at the center of our commercial engine. This leader will shape how Okta structures evaluates and executes strategic and complex transactions while building the operating model governance and team required to scale with the business.

This role is equal parts strategist operator and trusted business partner. You will work closely with Sales leadership and cross-functional partners across Finance Legal Revenue Product and our internal systems and technology team to improve deal quality accelerate velocity and ensure commercial decisions align with Oktas growth profitability and risk objectives.

What youll be doing

Strategic Deal Leadership

• Lead Oktas global deal strategy vision operating model and engagement framework across regions segments and routes to market.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Sales leadership on strategic competitive and non-standard deals.
• Act as a senior escalation point on high-value high-risk and business-critical transactions balancing growth customer outcomes profitability and risk.

Commercial Governance & Deal Structuring

• Establish and evolve global guardrails for pricing discounting approvals exception handling and non-standard commercial structures in alignment with our Pricing & Packaging team.
• Partner with Finance Legal Revenue Product and Operations to ensure deal structures are commercially sound operationally executable and aligned to company policy.
• Drive consistency and rigor in commercial decision-making while preserving flexibility for strategic deals.

Cross-Functional Execution & Business Insights

• Lead cross-functional alignment on deal execution including clear decision rights escalation paths and rules of engagement.
• Build metrics dashboards and inspection mechanisms that improve visibility into cycle time exception trends commercial quality and risk.
• Translate field feedback market dynamics and deal trends into actionable recommendations on policy pricing packaging and process improvements.

Team Leadership & Enablement

• Build lead and develop a high-performing global team with strong commercial judgment and executive credibility.
• Coach the team to operate as strategic advisors to the field not just transaction managers.
• Create playbooks training and enablement that improve seller effectiveness and reinforce best practices in deal formation.

AI-Enabled Deal Strategy

• Define and scale AI-enabled workflows that improve seller productivity deal quality approval consistency and speed across the deal lifecycle.
• Partner with Systems Operations and Analytics teams to embed AI into areas such as pricing guidance approval routing risk flagging and deal summarization with clear guardrails for accuracy auditability and policy compliance.
• Establish a tiered service model that uses automation for high-volume standardized deals.

What youll bring to the role

• 12 years of experience in Deal Strategy Deal Desk Commercial Operations Revenue Operations Finance Pricing or related functions in a global SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Proven experience leading and scaling high-performing global teams.
• Deep expertise in SaaS deal structuring pricing strategy discount governance approval frameworks and complex commercial negotiations.
• Strong understanding of quote-to-cash processes including revenue recognition implications.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior Sales leaders and cross-functional executives (Finance Legal Revenue Product Operations) in fast-paced matrixed environments.
• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and make sound commercial recommendations.
• Track record of building scalable operating models governance frameworks and process improvements that enable growth.
• Experience with Salesforce CPQ CLM and related commercial systems preferred; Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Experience using AI tools and automation to streamline operational processes.

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