Senior Account Executive

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

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will be focused on selling our FX & Payment API product to our SEA-based customers. 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 Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Work with our SDR and acquire new enterprise customers across APAC through your existing network and experience.

• Own and drive the entire deal cycle from prospecting to go live.

• Identify new companies, use cases and prospects through research with help of our SDR team.

• Work with Marketing, Strategy, and other functions to architect and execute a well-oiled machine to drive sales funnel conversion.

• Build and manage a strong, reliable pipeline, as well as help define best practices that will be the foundation for the APAC sales team.

• Work collaboratively with people at all levels and across functions and cultures.

• Provide regular reporting against KPIs, metrics and targets.

• Develop and implement go-to-market strategies tailored to specific target verticals and/or companies.

Who you are

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 8 years of experience selling a complex technology product to enterprise accounts (preferably with several years in fintech). Candidates with less working experience will be considered for Account Executive.

• A top performing sales professional with a proven track record of new business solution selling, ideally within FX, payment, transaction banking, card issuing in target verticals including eCommerce, marketplaces, fintech, online travel agents, etc.

• Success-oriented and hold yourself accountable for delivering key outcomes, including KPIs and revenue targets.

• Broad existing network of key decision makers for payments solutions at our target prospects — such as major eCommerce, marketplace, fintech, online travel, digital content and similar network/platform businesses.

• Besides strong analytical skills and an organized way of working, you will have excellent communication and solution selling skills (directly tailored to customer needs) and experience in identifying and influencing key decision makers and stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• You are technically minded and have prior experience working in API sales for a similar company.
• Happy to work in a fast-paced environment and have a level of maturity to run your own race within the organization.
• A startup mindset, with prior experience in selling complex, API-driven solutions.

• Degree Holder from a accredited Tertiary Institution.