Senior Growth Product Marketing Specialist, Okta
$126-172.7k
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $108,000—$148,500 CAD. Plus equity (where applicable) and bonus
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
$126-172.7k
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between: $108,000—$148,500 CAD. Plus equity (where applicable) and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings a mix of strategic thinking and hands-on execution—someone who is data-driven, customer-obsessed, and skilled at translating complex concepts into clear, outcome-focused narratives
- 3+ years of experience in product marketing, customer marketing, lifecycle, or growth roles within B2B SaaS, ideally in technology or cybersecurity
- Proven success driving post-sale engagement, adoption, retention, and expansion programs that deliver measurable customer outcomes
- Strong ability to translate complex or technical concepts into clear, compelling customer value narratives and business outcomes
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams at all levels
- Analytical and data-driven mindset, skilled at using insights and metrics to inform strategy, measure impact, and optimize performance
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with agility and precision
- Passionate about helping customers realize the full value of their investment and advancing a customer-first culture
What the job involves
- Okta’s rapid growth and product innovation have contributed to our leadership position in the market for identity and access management
- Today we sell our broad portfolio of solutions to the largest companies in the world, and to optimize for this market we need product marketers who can identify customer pain points and how Okta solves for those across our product lines
- The Sr Product Marketing Specialist plays a pivotal role in shaping how Okta engages, retains, and grows its customer base
- This role is responsible for building scalable engagement models, designing customer lifecycle programs, and embedding value storytelling across every touchpoint to help customers realize the full potential of the Okta platform
- You’ll collaborate closely with Sales, Customer First, Marketing, and Support teams to create seamless, value-driven experiences and programs that strengthen customer relationships, drive adoption, and fuel expansion
- You’ll measure success through tangible business impact: increased adoption, higher retention, and meaningful expansion across Okta’s customer base
- Customer Engagement Strategy: Help develop and manage a scalable engagement model that unifies Customer First teams, telemetry, tools and touchpoints to drive retention, expansion and overall customer lifetime value
- Lifecycle Program Design & Execution: Design and execute end-to-end lifecycle playbooks that guide customers through an accelerated and successful onboarding, adoption, and renewal while empowering Customer First teams to deliver power customer outcomes, and drive customer maturity and platform adoption
- Customer Value & Storytelling: Identify, leverage and integrate value metrics and storytelling throughout customer touchpoints (eg. Customer Support Managers, Customer Campaigns, in-product experiences, etc.) to highlight ROI, reinforce Okta’s differentiation, and support expansion
- Cross-Functional Alignment & Collaboration: Partner across Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Support to deliver consistent, value-driven messaging promoting our Support offerings and services; and coordinate across the GTM to facilitate a seamless customer experience
- Customer and Field Insights: Gather insights from customers, prospects, market, and sellers to inform product roadmap prioritization, messaging refinement, and go-to-market strategy optimization. Use quantitative and qualitative data to identify customer pain points, preferences, and buying criteria
- Performance & Impact Metrics: Measure and optimize success through adoption growth, retention gains, expansion pipeline impact, and internal feedback on engagement effectiveness
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. It aims 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 HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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