Area Sales Director(Okta India)
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and driven Area Sales Director to join our India Sales team, with a focus on expanding within existing customers and landing new strategic logos across key industries.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for delivering growth through a team of quota-carrying Enterprise / Strategic Account Executives, who specialise in both account expansion (upsell/cross-sell) and net new logo acquisition, supported by a partner-first go-to-market strategy.
You will play a critical role in shaping strategy, coaching your team, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure and predictable, sustainable revenue growth.
What You Will Be Doing
- Ideate, build and execute a Go to Market strategy in in your assigned sales segment across India
- Lead and manage your Enterprise / Strategic Sales team in India, overseeing day-to-day operations, performance, and development.
- Drive growth within existing Enterprise and Strategic accounts, with clear strategies for upsell, cross-sell, and multi-year expansion.
- Coach and mentor your team to land new strategic logos by building executive relationships, driving differentiated value, and shaping long-term digital transformation roadmaps with customers.
- Engage key SIs, partners, cloud providers and distributors for joint business planning, demand creation, opportunity execution and scale, aligned to our partner-first GTM.
- Hire, motivate, mentor and develop a high-performing sales team, raising the bar on sales excellence, deal strategy, and execution.
- Provide direction and leadership, fostering tight collaboration with Presales, Business Development, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success and our Partner ecosystem.
- Own demand generation and pipeline discipline: ensure monthly pipeline creation, sufficient pipeline coverage, and attainment of pipeline generation targets and revenue bookings quota.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date Salesforce hygiene across the team and provide reliable, insight-led forecast information to leadership.
- Actively support complex, strategic opportunities, including deal strategy, commercial structuring, and building executive-level relationships with C-suite stakeholders.
- Lead territory and account planning, ensuring focus on the highest-potential accounts, industries, and buying centers.
- Collaborate closely with extended teams (pre-sales, services, training, legal, renewals, partners) to ensure successful adoption, value realisation, and long-term customer advocacy.
You Will Be a Great Fit for Us If You Have:
- 20+ years of experience selling B2B SaaS solutions, with deep exposure to complex, multi-stakeholder Enterprise sales cycles.
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading high-performing SaaS sales teams, ideally focused on Enterprise and/or Strategic accounts.
- A proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding revenue targets across both net new and expansion motions.
- Exceptional leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships internally (across cross-functional teams) and externally (C-level and senior stakeholders).
- Strong business planning capabilities — able to set clear goals, define territory and account strategies, track progress, identify risks/blockers, and drive corrective actions.
- A professional, polished presence with excellent verbal and written communication skills; confident in presenting to C-suite (CEO, CFO, CIO, CISO, CTO) and senior business leaders.
- Deep mastery of consultative and solution selling methodologies such as MEDDPICC, Challenger, Solution Selling, Sandler, or similar frameworks.
- Comfort and credibility in engaging executive stakeholders around identity, security, digital transformation and business outcomes.
- Strong operational rigor, with a focus on building scalable processes, improving forecast accuracy, and bringing structure to a growing organisation.
- An innovative and growth-oriented mindset — not afraid to challenge the status quo, experiment, and bring fresh ideas to how we win in Enterprise and Strategic accounts.
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or a demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
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