Senior Account Executive

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Seoul, South Korea

Workday is seeking a Senior Account Executive to drive new business and expansion in large enterprise accounts in Korea. This role will manage a portfolio of large Korean enterprises and be responsible for full-cycle sales, from pipeline generation to closing transformational deals. The role requires experience selling platform or mission-critical solutions and engaging with CIOs and IT leadership around cloud, data, and AI strategy.

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

  • Enterprise sales experience
  • B2B technology sales
  • SaaS sales
  • Cloud sales
  • Enterprise software sales
  • Large enterprise account management
  • Consultative sales
  • New logo acquisition
  • New business development
  • Platform sales
  • Mission-critical solution sales
  • Stakeholder management
  • Complex sales cycles
  • Territory development
  • Korean language proficiency
  • Business English proficiency

Nice to have

  • HCM solutions
  • HR tech solutions
  • ERP solutions
  • Finance solutions
  • AI strategy sales
  • Automation strategy sales
  • Data platform strategy sales
  • Partner sales
  • Global SI collaboration
  • Local SI collaboration
  • Reseller collaboration

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of enterprise sales experience in B2B technology
  • Experience selling into large Korean enterprises
  • Consistent track record of meeting or exceeding quota
  • Strong hunting skills
  • Experience selling platform or mission-critical solutions
  • Proven ability to access and influence CIO / oCIO stakeholders
  • Comfortable managing complex buying processes
  • Highly self-driven, proactive, and entrepreneurial
  • Fluent Korean and solid business-level English