Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Commercial LegalNew

The opportunity

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • 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