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full-timePrincipal Customer Success Manager - Dedicated
Okta · Chicago, Illinois; Colorado; San Francisco, California; Texas
Okta is a company specializing in identity and access management, providing infrastructure that secures digital identities for organizations. The Principal Customer Success Manager - Dedicated role is a senior-level position focused on managing high-value key accounts. In this role, you will act as a strategic advisor to C-level executives, aligning Okta’s technical capabilities with the specific business objectives of large-scale enterprise clients. Daily responsibilities include developing proactive success plans, conducting strategic business reviews, and orchestrating cross-functional teams across sales, support, and engineering to ensure customer retention and growth. You will be responsible for translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes while identifying opportunities for product adoption and expansion. This position is well-suited for a seasoned professional with over 12 years of experience in customer success, account management, or consulting, particularly within the SaaS enterprise sector. The ideal candidate possesses elite relationship management skills, a high-performance mindset, and the ability to navigate complex organizational challenges with urgency and a focus on measurable results.
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. About the role: The Principal Customer Success Manager - Dedicated role will play a critical part in the exciting growth and retention trajectory of the Key Accounts Sector at Okta. You will report to the Director, 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 12+ 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, communication, and project management skills, particularly when engaging with C-level executives to align technical goals with business value and drive what is next. 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%. P25501_3506687 #LI-TP2 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
| Role | Principal Customer Success Manager - Dedicated |
|---|---|
| Company | Okta |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois; Colorado; San Francisco, California; Texas |
| Type | internship |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-02 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
Before you apply
0/4About Okta
Okta, Inc. is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) company founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco. The company provides identity and access management solutions for workforces, customers, and AI agents. Its offerings include the Okta Platform for governance and the Auth0 Platform for authentication. Okta’s services are designed to secure human and machine identities, helping organizations manage access across their digital ecosystems. The company serves a diverse client base, including major government agencies and two-thirds of the Fortune 100, supporting thousands of organizations globally in securing their business operations and digital infrastructure.
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