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Head of Strategic Accounts, Enterprise
2025-09-03 Airwallex San Francisco,CAAbout 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 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, 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.
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 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, 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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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.
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, prioritizing our customers, and a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by multinational organizations.
What You'll Do
The Head of Strategic Accounts will be a first of its kind sales role at Airwallex. As our first to do this role in the Americas, you will be focused on selling our API financial technology product stack to Fortune 500 (or similar) companies. You will use your existing deep network and industry experience to hit the ground running and deliver meaningful impact for the business. Success in this role is based on successfully exceeding target volume and revenue targets and you will enjoy significant upside for hitting those targets.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
Responsibilities
- Acquire new Enterprise customers across North America through your existing network and experience
- Own and drive long, sophisticated global deal cycles from ideation to prospecting and closing both, new logos and customer expansions
- Proactively 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
We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience selling a complex technology product to enterprise accounts
- Existing network of key decision makers for payments solutions at Fortune 500 (or similar scale companies) in the enterprise space
- Prior experience in selling complex, API-driven solutions
- Strong analytical skills and an organized way of working
- Excellent communication, negotiation and solution selling selling skills
- Experience in identifying and influencing key decision makers and stakeholders
- Experience working at a fintech company
- A technical product mindset with a passion for complicated product integrations in the technology space
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.
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.
Compensation Range: $300K - $450K
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