Senior Account Executive, Enterprise
About Airwallex
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
About the team
The Enterprise Business team at Airwallex is a high-performing and collaborative group of innovators, focused on transforming the way large global businesses operate. We're passionate about delivering cutting-edge payments and financial solutions that streamline operations and drive growth for our enterprise clients. As a team, we value strategic thinking, prioritising our customers, and a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by multinational organizations.
What you'll do
This is a Senior Enterprise Account Executive focused on selling our FX & Payment API product within one of our target verticals that are ideal for our product. You will use your deep network and industry experience to hit the ground running and deliver quick results. Success in this role is based on successfully achieving target volume and revenue targets and you will enjoy significant commission and share option upside for hitting those targets.
This role is based in San Francisco or New York City.
Responsibilities:
Acquire new enterprise customers across North America through your existing network and experience
Own and drive the entire deal cycle from prospecting to close for both, new logos and customer expansions
Identify new companies, use cases and prospects through research with help of our strategy and sales enablement team
Work collaboratively with people at all levels and across functions and cultures
Provide regular reporting against KPIs, metrics and targets
Ensure the best customer experience and on-boarding process for new customers
Negotiate partnership agreements and commercial contracts in conjunction with legal, finance and strategy through to execution
Build and manage a strong, reliable pipeline, as well as help define best practices that will be the foundation for the US sales team
Who you are
We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum qualifications:
At least 5 years of experience selling a complex technology product to enterprise accounts
Success-oriented and hold yourself accountable for delivering key outcomes, including KPIs and revenue targets
Willing to travel as required
Preferred qualifications:
Your sales experience includes 2 to 3 years in fintech or payments software
A top performing sales professional with a proven track record of new business solution selling, ideally within FX or payment sales in the target vertical, Travel
Broad existing network of key decision makers for payments solutions at our target prospects in the Travel vertical
A technical mindset, with prior experience in selling complex, API-driven solutions
Besides strong analytical skills and an organized way of working, you will have excellent communication and solution selling selling skills (directly tailored to customer needs) and experience in identifying and influencing key decision makers and stakeholders
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Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.