Role Description We are seeking a Distinguished Strategic Advisor, a senior field-facing leadership role designed for someone who thrives in complex, high-impact customer engagements and has the credibility to work as a peer to CISOs, CIOs, and Chief Architects. You’ll serve as a technical and strategic advisor to Okta’s most important customers. You’ll guide enterprise identity strategies, evangelize best practices, and influence product direction through direct customer feedback and regional insight. Your ability to connect architecture with business outcomes will help customers de-risk transformation and accelerate innovation using identity as the foundation. What you’ll be doing - Strategic Customer Engagement: - Act as a technical executive sponsor for a portfolio of strategic accounts, with deep involvement in roadmap alignment and solution planning. - Help customers align identity strategy to transformation initiatives like Zero Trust, hybrid cloud, workforce modernization, and digital trust. - Drive influence by shaping identity vision across the full stakeholder spectrum, from IT to security to business. - Technical Leadership: - Guide the design of modern identity architectures, integrations, and risk-based approaches to access control. - Translate product capabilities into clear, actionable technical strategies that fit customer maturity and architecture constraints. - Provide hands-on architectural guidance and lead deep technical conversations on implementation trade-offs, scalability, and integration. - Field Enablement and Collaboration: - Partner with Specialists, Architects, and SE leaders to provide technical oversight on high-complexity deals. - Partner with sales leadership to identify and address critical business opportunities and challenges. - Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless execution of global initiatives. - Innovate in tools and techniques to drive excellence and momentum. - Market Influence: - Represent Okta in analysts, press, customer briefings, executive meetings, and technical forums across industry verticals. - Provide thought leadership on identity modernization and enterprise architecture through blogs, sessions, and industry standards through participation in relevant technical advisory boards. - Share regional learnings and customer patterns to inform cross-functional strategy across Product, Marketing, and Sales. - Innovation and Strategy: - Identify and incubate repeatable solution patterns that can scale across segments and regions. - Serve as a key technical voice in defining how Okta’s platform evolves to support complex enterprise environments. - Participate in product ideation, beta programs, and strategic roadmap conversations with Product and Engineering. Qualifications - 15+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management roles, including Solutions Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, or related fields. - Deep expertise in identity, security, cloud computing, and digital transformation. - Ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders across sales cycles and long-term transformation programs. - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience contributing to technical events. - Strong understanding of market trends, competitive landscape, and enterprise customer needs. - Ability to effectively operate in a matrixed organization and manage cross-functional initiatives. - Passion for innovation, customer success, and advancing the field of identity. Preferred Qualifications - Former Enterprise Architect, Identity Strategist, or Principal Security Architect or similar field engineering leadership role. - Background in implementing or scaling IAM, identity governance, or security platforms. - Experience with CIAM, DevSecOps, or AI-related access risk models. - Familiarity with identity challenges in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or government. - Experience working with or within Global 2000 Enterprises. - Public speaking or published work related to security architecture or identity strategy. Benefits - Annual OTE range for this position is between $280,000 - $420,000 USD. - Equity (where applicable) and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave). - Dynamic, inclusive culture that empowers people and teams to thrive.

Education First is a trusted advisor to education funders and changemakers in all 50 states. We uniquely bridge policy, practice and philanthropy to create more clarity and coherence across P-20 education initiatives and systems.  Education First is seeking an experienced leader to join the Accelerate Academic Coherence consulting team as a Principal Consultant. The Accelerate Academic Coherence team supports philanthropic, state, and district leaders in designing and implementing high-quality, coherent instructional, assessment, and accountability systems. The Principal Consultant is expected to bring expertise gained by serving currently or recently as a national funder, or as a close advisor to philanthropy with strong relationships, to advance high-quality, coherent instructional, assessment and accountability systems, including how systematic, strategic use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology can accelerate academic coherence. Reporting to the Managing Partner, the Principal Consultant will shape and set strategy, cultivate strong partnerships, lead individual client engagements and contribute to the firm’s success and sustainability. They apply their understanding of philanthropy and the current and future issues in the field (e.g., technology and AI) to craft bodies of work and projects, bring in new relationships with funders and sell projects, lead services and projects that deliver immediate and long-term results, and contribute to thought leadership that extends the firm’s national reputation in these areas.  The Principal Consultant should have a diverse and outstanding network with funders, decisionmakers, and influencers in the field, and be comfortable cultivating relationships, advising, and coaching new and prospective executive clients. The Principal Consultant is also deeply skilled in understanding and addressing issues of racial equity in education, coaching staff on client engagements, and overseeing the quality of research, work products, and services to clients.  - Skillfully support executives in philanthropy, school systems, state education agencies and nonprofits - Develop and use tools and strategies to assess client needs, lift up research and emerging practices and solve problems clients face - Support and coach funders in developing investment strategies and plans and leading grantee communities of practices - Support and coach innovators to reimagine organizational and institutional structures through equitable design - Support system leaders to operationalize Education First’s commitment to coherence, bringing down silos in school systems, regions, states and organizations that can impede progress - Serve as project director on a variety of client engagements - Travel to meet with clients to facilitate meaningful engagements that directly contribute to project deliverables, approximately 20-30% of the time - Oversee successful projects, including building capacity, advising clients, and ensuring that project deliverables meet our excellence standard - Coordinate regularly with the project manager and client to ensure project success, including budgeting, planning and regular reporting against the contract, and providing and seeking feedback from the client and team members  - Contribute to project operations through creating materials and active involvement in all other project tasks - Advance the firm’s business development, thought leadership and field impact - Contribute to business development efforts by cultivating relationships with current and prospective clients, contributing to proposals and participating in content-based business development and thought leadership work groups that drive firm strategy and sales - Create and deliver content for the firm's website, policy papers, newsletters, op-eds, press releases and public speaking engagements - Mentor, guide and manage team members - Support project managers to set and monitor project work plans and drive the project to completion at or under budget  - Support inclusive project teams that challenge and empower all team members to grow and reach their potential

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Imagine a career where success doesn’t come at the expense of family time. Our fully remote team offers the flexibility to create your own schedule, grow professionally, and earn competitive income—all from home. We’re looking for energetic, service-driven individuals who enjoy helping clients and making a difference. You’ll work with multiple clients throughout the day, offering knowledgeable support and building trusted relationships. Qualifications - Excellent communication and people skills - A growth mindset and adaptability - The ability to work independently and within a team - A strong sense of responsibility and motivation Benefits - Flexible scheduling with weekly pay - 100% remote work environment - Ongoing weekly training and mentorship - Life insurance coverage - Health insurance reimbursement - Modern technology and resources to support your success Company Description

• Conduct comprehensive and detailed assessments of clients' payment systems, applications, and processes to identify potential security vulnerabilities and compliance gaps. • Evaluate and analyze payment architectures, technologies, and payment processing environments to ensure they meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. • Leverage your expertise as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) to guide clients through the compliance process, ensuring adherence to relevant industry standards such as PCI DSS, PA-DSS (or SSF), and other payment-related regulations. • Assist clients in obtaining and maintaining relevant certifications and compliance reports. • Provide clients with detailed recommendations and strategies to enhance the security posture of their payment systems and applications. • Collaborate with client teams to develop and implement effective remediation plans to address identified security vulnerabilities and compliance issues. • Offer technical expertise and guidance to clients on implementing secure payment technologies, encryption methods, secure data storage, and secure coding practices. • Advise clients on best practices for securing payment card data and sensitive financial information. • Establish and maintain strong working relationships with clients, acting as a trusted advisor on payment security matters. • Serve as the primary point of contact for technical discussions and security-related inquiries. • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, developments, and regulatory changes in the payments industry and cybersecurity domain. • Continuously improve your knowledge and skills to remain at the forefront of payment security practices.