Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Commercial Legal

• →Lead, develop, coach and mentor Okta’s global team of high-performing commercial attorneys and legal professionals
• →Serve as a point of escalation to provide executive-level negotiating expertise and guidance on SaaS master subscription agreements, AI commercial matters, professional services agreements, reseller and distributor agreements, managed service provider agreements, vendor agreements and other types of enterprise commercial agreements
• →Ensure that the delivery of legal services to Okta is within the letter and spirit of the law, appropriately balances risks and opportunities, and is customer oriented
• →Evolve the delivery of legal services to Okta’s go to market team to be a data driven first organization, delivering scaled, efficient and calibrated legal advice, counsel and guidance
• →Position the commercial legal team and Legal Department to be a leader in AI Agentic commercial legal terms and approaches
• →Help build a world-class public sector commercial legal program and team
• →Provide the business feedback on the needs of customers in all aspects of the commercial relationship, including security, privacy, data usage and AI-related matters 
• →Develop and collaboratively implement an innovative strategy to scale and increase efficiency of delivering commercial legal support to Okta’s business 
• →Be an active and trusted legal leader and partner within the legal team and with GTM, finance, deal desk, IT, security, procurement and other teams across the business  
• →Partner with and help evolve our Legal Ops team to increase use of automation and reliance on data analytics to streamline the deal process and establish scalable contracting standards globally
• →Create and implement policies, practices and consistent guidance for the commercial legal team including training, guides and playbooks aligned with Okta’s risk tolerance
• →Play an active role in owning and driving commercial legal team’s organizational planning, budgeting and tracking
• →Ability to support a global team including regular and ongoing travel to ensure the commercial legal team and go to market team is operating effectively and efficiently
  
  

• 15+ years of relevant experience as a practicing attorney, negotiating and drafting enterprise-level SaaS agreements including 7+ years of in-house experience with a proven track record of building and managing legal teams
  
  
• Ability to translate complex global legal issues and ambiguity into clear and simple guidance, to communicate effectively with non-legal internal colleagues, and to support and inspire innovation across the business
  
  
• Deep experience leading, developing and scaling teams focused on efficiently delivering practical business-oriented results and scalable processes
  
  
• Familiarity with deal structures for selling to regulated entities and in foreign jurisdictions
  
  
• Demonstrated experience as a strong collaborator and communicator with business and legal teams
  
  
• Understanding of the quarterly business model and ability to work with a sense of urgency while prioritizing competing interests
• Experience building and scaling teams at a publicly traded company
• Highly-responsive and service-oriented attitude
  
  
• Ability to maintain strong working relationships with a variety of internal clients
  
  
• Strong executive presence with excellent and concise written/verbal communication
  
  
• Team-oriented and with a sense of humor and humility
  
  
• Operate with the highest levels of integrity
  
  
• JD from an accredited law school and be a member in good standing of at least one state Bar (preferably in California)

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