About the Role You are an experienced enterprise sales leader who combines technical fluency, executive presence, and disciplined sales execution.

You have led teams through complex, multi stakeholder sales cycles and are comfortable engaging directly with CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT leaders.

You know how to coach sellers, orchestrate internal resources, shape executive-level value propositions, and create accountability around pipeline generation, forecast accuracy, and revenue performance.

You bring credibility in conversations about cloud architecture, data strategy, AI, integration, security, and enterprise transformation, and you can help your team position Workday as a strategic platform within a customer’s broader technology ecosystem.

Key Focus & Responsibilities Team Leadership & Coaching: Use your experience to lead, coach, and mentor a field sales team of specialized Account Executives.

Drive a culture of accountability, performance, and continuous development.

Deal Strategy & Orchestration: Lead a team focused on driving complex platform sales cycles ($500K+ ARR) by orchestrating internal teams of pre-sales, value management, bid management, and sales support from initial discovery through negotiation and closing. SOW, Roadmap, & Deal Governance: Oversee your team's operational accountability for generating and executing formal AI/Platform Statements of Work (SOWs) and delivering 1–3 year phased technology roadmaps.

Forecasting & Business Modeling: Maintain accurate forecasting data and business modeling for senior leadership, while helping your team operationalize a "time to engage" strategy based on corporate triggers.

Hyperscaler & Partner Co-Selling:



Employ effective selling strategies by pulling together different business units to maximize sales, guiding your team to co-sell joint platform solutions with cloud hyperscaler partners (AWS, GCP) and Global System Integrators (GSIs). #platformjobs About You Basic Qualifications M4 Regional Sales Director, Platform: 8+ years experience selling cloud/SaaS/ERP/analytics solutions, with a specific focus on complex platform, enterprise data, or AI/analytics solutions directly to the Office of the CIO or CTO. 8+ years experience managing complex sales cycles from start to finish with a track record of successful revenue/quota attainment. 5+ years experience as a leader in a team selling environment. M5 Regional Sales Director, Platform: 2+ years of field sales management experience at a SaaS company, ideally focused on new business acquisition, with an additional 8+ years as a field sales representative. 8+ years experience selling cloud/SaaS/ERP/analytics solutions, with a specific focus on complex platform, enterprise data, or AI/analytics solutions directly to the Office of the CIO or CTO. 8+ years experience managing complex sales cycles from start to finish with a track record of successful revenue/quota attainment. 5+ years experience as a leader in a team selling environment.

Other Qualifications Domain & Technical Fluency:



Strong technical credibility in modern enterprise IT architectures, cloud data foundations, API orchestration, data privacy/security, and AI/ML platform integration. oCIO Persona Fluency: Speaks the language of IT leadership.

Understands the strategic competitive landscape by staying up to date with trends and customer needs so you can effectively coach your team to position Workday solutions.

Cross-Functional Orchestration: Proven experience pulling together different business units to maximize on sales and position Workday's extensibility, analytics, and autonomous agent capabilities as an interoperable component of a client's wider IT stack.

Dynamic Leadership: Self-starter attitude with the ability to work in a energetic environment, empowering your team to challenge legacy IT assumptions, frame clear TCO models, and align technology roadmaps to strategic business goals.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement Workday pay ranges vary based on work location.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.

Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process.

Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things.

For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location: CAN.BC.

Vancouver

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $170,000 CAD - $255,000 CADPrimary CAN Base Pay Range: $170,000 - $255,000 CAD

📌 Regional Sales Director, Platform - Canada (Vancouver)
🏢 Canada Workday ULC
📍 Vancouver