Director, Strategic Delivery

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human<br><br></strong>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.<br><br>This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.</p></div><h1>The Customer First Team</h1> <p>We are a team of Identity and Access Management experts. We help customers, businesses, and organizations maximize their Okta IAM platform investment, providing rapid time-to-value in adoption and usage and promoting scalability and agility. Our team sits within the Customer First area - focused on ensuring the long-term success of our customers.&nbsp; Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.</p> <h1>Role Summary</h1> <p>Okta is seeking a highly strategic, hands-on, and methodical Director, Strategic Delivery to join our Professional Services team. This is a high-impact, premium Individual Contributor (IC) role designed for an enterprise delivery champion who thrives on driving complex, multi-stakeholder outcomes through influence, structured governance, and process design.</p> <p>In this role, you will not be limited to a single account; instead, you will oversee a strategic portfolio of high-value, complex customer implementations delivered alongside our primary Global System Integrator (GSI) partners.</p> <p>Beyond high-level project governance, you will serve as the architect of our GSI delivery model. You will be directly responsible for designing, testing, and codifying the end-to-end sales-to-delivery methodologies, playbooks, and processes. Critically, you will play an active role in supporting the sales cycle for strategic deals, representing Okta on Joint Steering Committees (SteerCos), and building an enablement engine that equips our existing regional services, partner success, and delivery teams to scale these engagements seamlessly.</p> <h1>Key Responsibilities</h1> <p><strong>Strategic Sales Support &amp; Deal Structuring</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li><strong>Pre-Sales Partnership:</strong> Partner closely with Sales, Services Sales, and GSI leads early in the sales cycle for high-value strategic deals to define clean delivery boundaries, joint investment parameters, and optimal SOW alignment.</li> <li><strong>SOW and Contract Design: </strong>Lead the structural review and delivery validation of complex Statement of Works (SOWs) and Change Orders (both customer-facing and delivery partner-facing), ensuring clear divisions of responsibility.</li> <li><strong>Capacity Forecasting:</strong> Monitor upcoming strategic pipeline deals to help services and partner alliances teams forecast necessary delivery capabilities and partner specializations.</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Steering Committee (SteerCo) Leadership &amp; Portfolio Governance</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li><strong>SteerCo Representation:</strong> Represent Okta on joint Customer-GSI Steering Committees, serving as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders and GSI executives to ensure delivery alignment, strategic velocity, and shared commitment.</li> <li><strong>Portfolio Oversight: </strong>Provide delivery leadership, health tracking, and operational governance across multiple concurrent strategic enterprise implementations involving our core GSI partners.</li> <li><strong>Risk &amp; Escalation Management: </strong>Act as the central escalation point for delivery risks. Orchestrate and coordinate cross-functional Okta teams (Product, Engineering, Support, Customer Success) to unblock complex technical or relationship bottlenecks.</li> <li><strong>Quality &amp; Architecture Standards:</strong> Ensure partner-led delivery meets Okta’s strict technical design and architectural standards, auditing core deliverables such as deployment plans, change management strategies, and architecture diagrams.</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Repeatable Practice Building &amp; Enablement</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li><strong>Methodology Codification:</strong> Design, document, and test scalable sales-to-delivery frameworks, risk-mitigation playbooks, and standard governance structures for GSI-delivered engagements.</li> &l