Principal Account Executive

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Seoul, South Korea

This is a Principal Account Executive role at Workday, a company that positions itself as an AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The role focuses on enterprise sales, driving new customer growth, and managing complex deals with large Korean conglomerates. While the company and the role emphasize AI adoption and require interaction with technology leadership regarding AI strategy, the core function of the Account Executive is sales, not building or researching AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop strategy for prioritizing, targeting, and closing key opportunities in assigned territory
  2. Performs account planning for assigned accounts, coordinating with pre-sales and other resources to ensure strategic alignment
  3. Initiate and support sales of Workday solutions within Large Enterprise prospects and shares Workday value proposition
  4. Be responsible for developing relationships with net new customers with a focus on deal management and connecting customers with Workday solutions, particularly core financials
  5. Negotiate deals with a variety of C-Suite Executives to close opportunities

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of enterprise sales experience in B2B technology (SaaS, cloud, or enterprise software)
  • Proven track record owning a large strategic account
  • Multi-million dollar annual quota responsibility
  • Successful closure of multi-stakeholder, multi-year deals
  • Demonstrated ability to sell to and through the CIO and broader oCIO (CIO staff, enterprise architecture, IT strategy) in the context of cloud and AI adoption
  • Strong C-level relationship-building skills across CIO, CHRO, CFO, Head of Digital / Transformation, and business leaders
  • Experience leading transformation-led sales (ERP, HCM, finance, or adjacent platforms) where AI, data, and platform strategy are key decision drivers
  • Experience working in or with a global organization (Korea + regional/global HQ coordination)
  • Data-driven, highly disciplined in pipeline management, forecasting, and account planning
  • Entrepreneurial mindset: comfortable operating with ambiguity, building a motion in a relatively greenfield market, and taking full ownership of an account/business
  • Fluent Korean and strong business-level English

Nice to have

  • Proven track record leading cloud and AI platform decisions jointly with CIO/oCIO teams
  • Experience in or around HCM, ERP, finance, or HR tech

What the JD emphasized

  • direct and credible access to the CIO and technology leadership is absolutely critical
  • Proven track record owning a large strategic account
  • Multi-million dollar annual quota responsibility
  • Successful closure of multi-stakeholder, multi-year deals
  • Demonstrated ability to sell to and through the CIO and broader oCIO (CIO staff, enterprise architecture, IT strategy) in the context of cloud and AI adoption
  • Experience leading transformation-led sales (ERP, HCM, finance, or adjacent platforms) where AI, data, and platform strategy are key decision drivers