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Senior Account Executive, Enterprise

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
Drive full sales cycle to acquire and expand enterprise customers for FX & Payment API products in North America. Build pipeline, hit revenue and volume targets, negotiate contracts with legal/finance, ensure smooth onboarding, report on KPIs, collaborate cross-functionally, and help define US sales best practices.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

 
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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To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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.

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Sales

This is not just another sales role. It is a chance to sell a proven global platform, shape how we win across the Americas, and do career-defining work. You get the product, the territory, and the support to build real momentum.

AI Engineering

Our SF AI Engineering team at Airwallex is building production-grade AI that automates the hardest parts of global finance — from payments and onboarding to reconciliation, bookkeeping, and tax. Sitting on top of our proprietary global payments infrastructure and massive real-time transaction datasets, we design and ship vertical AI systems — from LLM-powered copilots and agentic workflows to fine-tuned models — that reach customers quickly and at scale. We’re a small, senior, zero-ego group with high ownership: engineers work end to end from problem framing and experimentation through to deployment and evals, using the right tool for the job to turn deep AI work into visible, shipped impact.

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