Specialized Account Executive - Talent AI

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Atlanta, GA

This role is for a Specialized Account Executive at Workday, focusing on selling the company's AI Talent Suite, which includes HiredScore and Paradox. The primary responsibility is to drive sales of these AI acquisitions by articulating a vision of "Human + AI" orchestration and collaboration, guiding customers away from fragmented solutions towards a unified, agentic AI reality. The role involves diagnosing customer needs, prescribing the right AI agents (Paradox for conversational AI/scheduling, HiredScore for talent orchestration/prioritization), competitive positioning against other CRMs, co-selling with core account executives, managing complex sales cycles, and maintaining pipeline and forecasting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the "Total Talent" Narrative: You will articulate a seamless vision where Workday Recruiting (Core) and Candidate Engagement (Nurture) are supercharged by Paradox (Conversational AI/Scheduling) and HiredScore (Talent Orchestration/Prioritization).
  2. Diagnose & Prescribe: You must be able to evaluate a customer’s hiring landscape to deploy the right AI agents. You will identify where to deploy Paradox for high-volume/hourly speed and candidate experience, and where to position HiredScore for professional roles, internal mobility, and recruiter efficiency.
  3. Competitive Positioning: Aggressively compete against external CRM by evangelizing Workday’s "Smart Mirror" approach—demonstrating how our AI layers on top of the system of record without creating data silos or integration nightmares.
  4. Co-Selling Partnership: Work in lock-step with Core Account Executives to integrate AI solutions into broader platform transformation deals.
  5. Manage sophisticated sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders (CHROs, Heads of TA, CIOs, and AI Compliance Officers). You will navigate data privacy concerns and explain the value of "Responsible AI."

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience selling complex SaaS/Cloud solutions to C-Level executives (CHRO, CIO, CTO).
  • 5+ years Deep Domain Expertise: Proven experience in HR Technology, Talent Acquisition, or AI-driven recruiting software.
  • 2+ years Platform Selling: Experience selling multi-product suites.
  • Track record of long-term success and upward mobility in previous roles
  • Technical & competitive fluency: You can articulate why a "Unified Data Model" beats a "connector" approach.
  • Segment Agility: You possess the mental agility to pivot between conversations about Frontline/Hourly hiring (speed-to-hire, text-to-apply, scheduling automation) and Corporate/Professional hiring (rediscovery, silver medalists, internal mobility).
  • Consultative Mindset: You can guide a client through a "maturity model"—showing them how to move from manual recruiting to Agentic AI (Recruiting & Mobility Agents).
  • Resilience & Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment where you are helping to inform demand generation strategies and define the market for transformative AI solutions.

Nice to have

  • Ability to travel to client sites and industry events

What the JD emphasized

  • selling complex SaaS/Cloud solutions to C-Level executives
  • Deep Domain Expertise: Proven experience in HR Technology, Talent Acquisition, or AI-driven recruiting software.
  • Platform Selling: Experience selling multi-product suites.
  • AI Talent Suite
  • agentic AI
  • Responsible AI