Corporate Counsel, Okta
Commercial and Procurement
+ Equity incentives
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years post qualification experience
- 3+ years in-house experience, negotiating, reviewing, and drafting Strategic Sourcing related contracts across various categories. Experience with enterprise-level go-to-market cloud computing agreements, is a plus
- Strong academic background and bar admission or common law qualification
- Must have experience with negotiating contracts with suppliers
- Strong influencing and leadership skills, including decisiveness on both legal and business issues with willingness to partner with other stakeholders
- Ability to understand, evaluate and break down nuanced & complex business issues and contracting approaches to present these to others in a clear and concise manner
- Highly responsive and service-oriented attitude
- Ability to support US Time zones, as needed, for commercial issues
- Business-minded, can-do spirit with the experience to find a way through tough negotiations
- Ability to work autonomously and organize, prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-paced, rewarding work environment
- Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with a variety of internal clients
- Sound and practical business judgment
- Working knowledge of intellectual property, security, GDPR, and other privacy matters (preferably in-house experience with a high growth SaaS company)
- Must have strong computer skills and knowledge of common programs such as G Suite, MS Excel, MS Office, MS Word
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Familiarity with Workday Strategic Sourcing is a plus
What the job involves
- To be successful in this role, you will need to partner closely with all members of the Strategic Sourcing organization
- You will be expected to build relationships with internal business partners working with cross-functional groups to support negotiations and implement risk mitigation measures with suppliers
- You will report to the Senior Manager, Corporate Commercial Counsel
- Draft, advise and negotiate all forms of vendor agreements including services, technology, consulting, supply, SOWs, and NDAs, including complex privacy and security issues
- Serve as an escalation point for sourcing contract management team on complex legal issues
- In partnership with Strategic Sourcing contract management team, provide direct support to Strategic Sourcing managers and leadership, both domestically and internationally, including Sourcing operations to help implement a scalable legal support structure and processes which map to Sourcing leadership’s strategic growth plans
- Drive and contribute to other exciting and interesting legal projects as needed
- Creation and updating of global Sourcing agreements and all related templates, as required
- Partner with security, technology operations, and other stakeholder teams to ensure agreements are consistent with internal Okta policies and processes
- Assist go-to-market sales teams, as needed, for commercial support
- Work directly with key business stakeholders as a strategic adviser and tactical influencer to provide business-minded legal advice and guidance on a broad range of complex legal, business, and strategic issues as they arise
- Negotiate and finalize engagement agreements, NDAs, supplier contracts, consulting agreements, venue agreements, software/tools licenses, employment-related agreements, etc
- Review and negotiate contract changes requested by internal teams and suppliers to ensure that contracting activities are in full compliance with legal and other regulatory requirements
- Build critical relationships with both legal colleagues and key stakeholders to effectively provide legal and strategic advice to assist the business to meet its objectives
- Liaise with sourcing as part of diligence review and oversight for new (and existing) third-party vendor services including document coordination and analysis
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company values
- Love our customers
- Never stop innovating
- Act with integrity
- Be transparent
- Empower our people
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Okta
- Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
- Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
- Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences
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