Senior Solutions Engineer- Strategic - Minnesota (Okta)

Okta • Minnesota, MN

2d • $200,000 - $275,000

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Solutions Engineer, Strategic, focusing on Minnesota accounts. The position is with Okta, a company focused on identity security, particularly in the context of AI. The Senior Solutions Engineer will act as a trusted technical advisor to large, complex enterprise customers and will be a key driver of the sales organization. The ideal candidate is a strategic Pre-Sales professional with strong consultative expertise, emotional intelligence, and enterprise sales acumen. While technical agility is necessary, the primary focus will be on owning the technical sales cycle by linking technical features to positive business outcomes. The role involves partnering with Enterprise Account Executives to understand customer challenges related to risk mitigation, cost reduction, and operational efficiency. The engineer will demonstrate how Okta's platform can transform architectures and secure large-scale deals.

Requirements

• Strategic Pre-Sales Excellence: 8+ years Recent, proven experience in a customer-facing Pre-Sales role (Sales Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Pre-Sales Engineer), with a strong track record of quota attainment and securing technical wins explicitly with large, complex strategic accounts.
• Consultative & Interpersonal Acumen: Top-tier executive communication, presentation, and storytelling abilities. Experience running value-based sales motions, knowing how to read a room, build rapport quickly, and influence decision-makers by focusing on revenue, cost, and risk.
• Technical Agility: A strong technical foundation coupled with a demonstrated ability to learn new enterprise technologies and architectures rapidly.
• Identity & Cybersecurity Expertise: Broad understanding of the complete Identity Security landscape. Recognize that identity is much more than just SSO and MFA, bringing knowledge of Identity Governance, Privileged Access Management, Threat Protection, modern authentication protocols, and Zero Trust Architecture.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Identity Governance & Automation: Direct, hands-on experience positioning and selling Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, and identity security automation workflows to large enterprises.
• AI Security & Architecture: Experience with or a strong understanding of artificial intelligence tools, AI agents, LLM integrations, and the emerging security implications of non-human identity within the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Master the Discovery Process: Leverage exceptional active listening to dig deep into customer pain points. Uncover the 'why' behind the initiative, focusing on how Okta's vast pre-built integrations and scalable architecture can solve their most complex, diverse environmental challenges.
• Navigate Complex Organizations: Translate highly technical concepts into clear, compelling business value. Regularly collaborate with and present to key stakeholders across matrixed enterprises, including CISOs, IT Security leaders, Identity Engineers, Enterprise Architects, PAM Admins, and Application Owners.
• Differentiate and Win: Confidently articulate Okta’s unique and comparative differentiators to shape the technical buyer’s decision criteria. Highlight our highly available architecture, robust regulatory compliance, and comprehensive platform coverage to prove Okta is the premier partner for world-class security.
• Pioneer AI Visibility & Control: Position Okta at the forefront of the AI era. Guide enterprise customers on how to discover unmanaged AI agents, evaluate their risk, and establish a single, centralized control plane for all human and non-human identities.
• Drive Value-Based Outcomes: Lead the technical evaluation phases of complex B2B SaaS sales cycles. Proactively overcome objections and drive enterprise deals to technical closure by continuously tying Okta's capabilities back to the customer's core business drivers of breach protection and operational resilience.
• Be a Trusted Advisor: Build strong, consultative relationships with strategic customers, establishing yourself as a subject matter expert in Identity Security, modern identity standards (SAML, OIDC, SSF), and Zero Trust Architecture.

Benefits

• health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• flexible spending account
• paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed