About the Role You are an experienced enterprise seller who combines identity and security fluency, executive presence, and disciplined sales execution.

You are comfortable engaging CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, senior technology leaders, security executives, and ecosystem partners while navigating complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.

You know how to build trusted customer relationships, uncover operational and compliance risk, shape executive level value propositions, orchestrate internal resources, and connect identity governance capabilities to measurable business outcomes.

You bring credibility in conversations about identity governance, access management, provisioning, access reviews, least-privilege enforcement, lifecycle automation, compliance, AI governance, cloud architecture, and enterprise transformation.

Key Focus & Responsibilities: Own complex enterprise identity sales cycles.

Lead identity governance opportunities from discovery through negotiation and close.

Build account strategies, qualify opportunities, shape executive-level value propositions, and progress opportunities with discipline across large, matrixed enterprise accounts.

Build trusted executive relationships.

Engage CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders to position Workday as a strategic enterprise software partner for identity governance, agentic AI governance, access modernization, and enterprise risk reduction.

Connect identity and security priorities to business value.

Translate customer needs across identity governance, provisioning, access reviews, least-privilege enforcement, lifecycle automation, security, compliance, AI governance, and enterprise transformation into clear value-based sales strategies.

Orchestrate cross functional teams.

Partner with Core Account Executives, Solution Consultants, Forward Deployed Engineers, Value Managers, product, customer success, partner teams, and sales support to deliver compelling customer outcomes and support complex deal execution.

Develop pipeline and identify timely opportunities.

Build pipeline across assigned accounts by identifying business events, security priorities, identity modernization initiatives, AI governance needs, compliance requirements,



and market signals that create opportunities for Workday's identity governance capabilities.

Shape the identity governance narrative.

Help customers understand the importance of governing identity and access across both human workers and AI agents.

Position identity governance as a foundational requirement for trusted enterprise AI adoption, operational resilience, and scalable risk management. #identityjobs About You Basic Qualifications: P4 Account Executive, Identity: +5 years of high-performing enterprise SaaS sales experience. +3 years specifically focused on selling identity governance, identity and access. management, cybersecurity, cloud security, enterprise platform, data, AI governance, or related solutions directly to the Office of the CISO, CTO & CIO.

Documented track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota while closing multi-stakeholder enterprise deals and managing high ARR accounts.

Demonstrated co-prime success working in collaborative, matrixed enterprise sales environments alongside core account owners and specialist teams. P5 Account Executive, Identity: +8 years of high-performing enterprise SaaS sales experience. +5 years specifically focused on selling identity governance, identity and access management, cybersecurity, cloud security, enterprise platform, data, AI governance, or related solutions directly to the Office of the CISO, CTO & CIO.

Documented track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota while closing multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.

Demonstrated co-prime success working in collaborative, matrixed enterprise sales environments alongside core account owners and specialist teams.

Other Qualifications Identity and security domain fluency.

Robust credibility in identity governance, access management, provisioning, access certification, least-privilege access, lifecycle automation, compliance, security operations,



and enterprise risk management. CISO, CIO, and CTO persona fluency.

Ability to engage senior technology and security leaders by connecting business transformation, operational risk, security governance, workforce strategy, and AI adoption to a clear identity and access governance strategy. AI governance and agentic identity fluency.

Ability to articulate the emerging need to govern access for both employees and AI agents, including how identity controls, access policies, lifecycle management, and governance workflows must evolve as autonomous agents become part of the enterprise workforce.

Challenger and value selling.

Proven ability to challenge legacy identity and access assumptions, uncover hidden operational risk, frame executive-level business cases, and align identity modernization efforts to measurable business outcomes.

Cross-functional orchestration.

Experience leading complex account motions that require tight coordination across sales, solution consulting, value management, product, customer success, partners, and executive stakeholders.

Cross-ecosystem interoperability.

Ability to position identity governance capabilities as an interoperable component of a customer’s broader IT, security, cloud, data, application, and AI ecosystem.

Enterprise sales discipline.

Strong command of account planning, qualification, pipeline generation, stakeholder mapping, executive engagement, mutual action planning, negotiation, and complex deal execution.

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.

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Primary Location: CAN.ON.

Toronto

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $149,500 - $224,300 CAD

📌 Account Executive - Identity - Canada (Toronto)
🏢 Workday
📍 Toronto