Strategic Deal Leadership - Lead Okta's Deal Strategy team for global upmarket accounts. - 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. - 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 and expert human judgment for complex, high-value, or non-standard transactions.

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Key responsibilities include:

• Owning and deepening relationships with founder/CEO-level executives at the fastest-growing AI companies
• Leading complex, high-stakes commercial negotiations spanning multiple stakeholders
• Driving strategic alignment between customer roadmaps and Anthropic's product vision
• Partnering closely with technical counterparts to ensure seamless execution and customer success

To succeed in this role, you'll need 12+ years of experience in strategic sales or account management, with a proven track record of managing high-complexity, strategic customer relationships. You'll also need strong business acumen and the ability to understand technical concepts sufficiently to engage in strategic discussions about AI implementations.

In addition to a competitive salary, you'll receive a range of benefits, including competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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