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Airwallex Sales Team in San Francisco
This isn’t just another sales role. This is your chance to build the future of global banking with a team that’s built to win. We give top performers the autonomy, the product, and the support to achieve uncapped success.
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What's it like to work in Sales at Airwallex in San Francisco?
What's it like to work in Sales at Airwallex in San Francisco?
Sales at Airwallex means selling to brands you see on billboards, with products at the center of the tech conversation. The Americas team has more than doubled every year for the last four to five years, creating outsized career opportunities. You'll own your territory, tackle complex cross-border payments challenges, and build processes from scratch. "You are building out your own processes and segments that you want to go after," says Rachel, Account Executive. It's big company resources with startup speed, and the right moment to shape the playbook, not just run it.
What's the culture like in Sales at Airwallex in San Francisco?
What's the culture like in Sales at Airwallex in San Francisco?
Airwallex is fast, builder-led, and global. The culture rewards ownership, not just output. You'll work alongside sharp, ambitious colleagues solving complex problems across 26 offices worldwide. There's no hand-holding, but there's real support. Teams move with startup speed backed by the resources of a $6B+ company. Collaboration is cross-functional by default, and high performers grow quickly as scope expands with results. The mindset is pioneering: build what doesn't exist yet, move fast, and take ownership of outcomes. 80% of employees say they're proud to tell others they work here. It's intense, but for builders who want autonomy, velocity, and visible impact, that's the point.
Airwallex Employee Perspectives
Airwallex Americas has more than doubled every year for the last four to five years across customers, revenue, and people. That growth translates into outsized opportunities for your craft and your career.
- Solve hard problems: Tackle complex payments challenges with a consultative approach
- Own your territory: Be in client meetings, outbounding, and building the processes and segments you want to go after
- Sell the right way: Be honest, transparent, and communicative to move deals forward efficiently
Employee Reviews
At Airwallex, Cainen owned and built his vertical in a fast-evolving fintech market, driving complex, high-value deals from first call to close to implementation with support from Solutions and Customer Success teams. He designed is own go-to-market playbook—leveraging outbound strategies, partnerships, and creative approaches to win deals. Success came through being honest, transparent, and communicative with prospects, always working to get deals done efficiently. Cainen also had direct influence on the product roadmap by channeling customer feedback to the product team.
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As an Account Executive for SME & Growth, Rachel thrives in Airwallex Americas' high-growth environment—a team that's doubled year-over-year for four to five years straight. She owns her territory completely: running client meetings, driving outbound, and building the processes and segments she wants to target. Rachel solves hard payments problems with a consultative, honest approach that moves deals forward efficiently. The autonomy to shape her own sales motion while contributing to rapid company growth is what makes the role exceptional for her.
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Philipp's role at Airwallex goes beyond traditional sales. He's helping build the future of global banking in one of the company's fastest-growing regions. He works with household-name brands, the kind you see on billboards across the city, selling products that are central to conversations in the tech ecosystem. Every deal he closes helps shape Airwallex's go-to-market engine and influence how the company scales. For him, it's about being at the forefront of fintech innovation, not just hitting quota.
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What drives Colette at Airwallex is the genuine ownership she has in the company: her success and her team's success are interconnected. She thrives in a compensation structure built for overachievement: competitive OTE, uncapped commission, and aggressive accelerators that reward her when she exceeds her targets. With clear pipeline visibility and strong team attainment, she has a transparent path to exceptional earnings. Beyond the financial rewards, she values being part of a culture where everyone shares in the company's growth.
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Nicole joined Airwallex over four years ago as an Account Executive and has since been promoted twice to Senior AE, then Director. Today she manages her own client portfolio while mentoring a team of four AEs. She credits supportive leadership and the depth of Airwallex's product suite for keeping her constantly learning and growing. "I shared my goal to lead a team with my manager early on, and he's pushed at every turn to make that happen," she says. For Nicole, the most rewarding part is helping companies achieve global growth, powered by Airwallex's infrastructure.
Our Products
Multi-Currency Global Business Account
Airwallex's premier product is its Multi-Currency Global Business Account, which functions as an all-in-one platform for international businesses to hold, manage, and transfer over 23 currencies with low FX fees. It is widely considered the best solution for cross-border payments, allowing companies to collect funds in local currencies and avoid high, traditional banking fees.
Eliminate costly conversion and transaction fees with an Airwallex multi-currency business account, allowing you to open local accounts in 20+ currencies and receive funds like a local from 70+ countries.
Airwallex AI Assistant
Airwallex has launched a suite of AI-powered tools, referred to as an "AI Assistant," designed to act as a concierge for global financial operations, reducing manual work and streamlining business setup. The AI assistant is integrated directly into the Airwallex WebApp, leveraging large language models (LLMs) to understand business context, answer questions, and execute tasks.
Airwallex's AI assistant doesn't just answer questions. It understands your context, creates a tailored onboarding journey, and uses a network of specialized agents to execute complex tasks on your behalf, from configuring accounts to scheduling international payments.
Optimize 360
Optimize 360 is Airwallex's payments optimization engine. It uses contextual bandits to intelligently route transactions and maximize acceptance success rates for customers in real time. The result: a sustained uplift in payments performance and a 10x increase in payments volume. It's a flagship example of how Airwallex combines ML and AI to solve real problems at scale.
Optimize 360 deployed contextual bandits to optimize payments acceptance success rates for our customers, directly delivering a sustained uplift in performance and a 10x increase in payments volume. It's proof that Airwallex doesn't just process payments, it makes them smarter.
What People Are Saying About Airwallex
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Autonomy: In SF, Sales is described as builder‑led with high ownership, where AEs shape territories, processes, and outbound plays rather than running a fixed script. Feedback suggests this suits self‑starters who want visible impact and control over their motion.
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Team Support: SF is a hybrid hub with GTM, product, engineering and partnerships colocated, enabling quick unblocking and tighter feedback loops on complex, multi‑product deals. Sales works closely with Solutions and Customer Success in consultative cycles to move implementations efficiently.
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Career Growth: The Americas business is scaling with SF named a global HQ, and local leaders highlight runway in the region and opportunities to take on larger scope. Sellers in SF frequently point to expanding teams and multi‑product exposure that accelerate progression.
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At a glance
how we impact our community
Airwallex Impact is a global social impact initiative backed by a 1% equity commitment to philanthropic giving, plus 1% of employee time, profits, and products. By taking the 1% Pledge, Airwallex joins leaders like Atlassian, Canva, and Salesforce in multiplying corporate philanthropy. The program builds on existing initiatives including AU$3M+ in university scholarships and Airwallex for Startups. "As we enter our 10th year, the time is right to commit to an enduring impact program," says CEO Jack Zhang. "Airwallex Impact is a natural extension of our dedication to innovation and economic development in the countries where we operate.
what makes our culture unique
At Airwallex, there's no playbook—just boldness. You write your own rules, build your own processes, and bring a pioneering spirit that refuses to accept "good enough." The culture rewards those who move fast, own it, and aim higher: velocity and execution beat perfection. This isn't a company "going global"—it's truly global from day one, with borderless ambition and impact.
You need a builder mentality because you won't execute someone else's playbook; you'll create it, influence product, and shape strategy. And because the company has doubled year-over-year, your impact compounds at scale—your territory, earnings, and influence grow alongside the company.
what set our business apart from competitors
We don't measure success in calls or decks. Sales at Airwallex means solving global complexity, owning real outcomes, and scaling what others call “impossible.”
We're not hiring closers. We're hiring builders who sell what the world needs next.
If you move fast, think big, and deliver—you belong here.
our mission + vision
At Airwallex, our vision is bold: to build the future of global banking. As one of the leading global financial platforms, we’re continuing to build technology that empowers businesses to thrive without limits. We’re not here to follow the future. We’re creating it today, for the businesses of tomorrow.
