Account Manager, SME & Growth, AU

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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 2,700 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.

As an Account Manager, SME & Growth, you’ll own the commercial relationship for a portfolio of ambitious Australian small and mid-market businesses. You’ll help customers get more value from Airwallex by understanding their goals, increasing product adoption, strengthening relationships and identifying opportunities for sustainable growth.

You’ll build trusted, multi-threaded relationships with founders, finance leaders, operators and other senior decision-makers. You’ll work across Airwallex’s product suite, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury and API-enabled solutions, while partnering with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Solutions, Operations, Risk and Compliance teams to deliver strong customer outcomes.

• Own and grow a portfolio of SME and growth accounts, building account plans that support retention, product adoption, relationship depth and revenue growth.

• Lead strategic customer engagements, including account planning sessions, business reviews and growth conversations.

• Identify, develop and close upsell, cross-sell and expansion opportunities across Airwallex’s product suite.

• Manage opportunities through the full commercial cycle, from discovery and solution design through negotiation, close, implementation and revenue realisation.

• Lead complex commercial negotiations involving bespoke agreements, multi-product solutions and high-value expansion opportunities.

• Translate customer needs into commercially viable solutions, including technical, API and integration requirements.

• Use customer, product and commercial data to prioritise your portfolio, identify product whitespace, build account strategies and develop effective QBRs.

• Maintain disciplined pipeline management and accurate forecasting in Salesforce, ensuring opportunities, next steps, risks and close plans are visible and actionable.

• Share customer insights, product feedback and market intelligence to improve internal processes, enablement and product outcomes.

This role is based in Sydney, and you’ll be expected to work from the office three days a week.

Essentials

• 5+ years of experience in account management, relationship management or sales, ideally selling a technical product, SaaS platform, payments solution or other financial technology.

• A proven track record of exceeding commercial targets and consistently delivering against revenue, gross profit or other relevant KPIs.

• Strong consultative selling skills, with the ability to understand customer strategies and pain points, uncover opportunities and articulate compelling value propositions.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex sales cycles, including upsell, cross-sell, renewal or expansion opportunities from identification through close.

• Experience managing complex, multi-product accounts and developing account strategies that drive retention, adoption and expansion.

• Strong analytical and strategic skills, with the ability to use data to prioritise accounts, identify opportunities and build effective account plans and QBRs.

• Exceptional verbal and written English, with the ability to communicate confidently with technical, commercial and executive stakeholders.

• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, networking, relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.

• Resilience, a positive attitude and a strong bias towards action when navigating customer or internal blockers.

• Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to understand complex product, integration and customer requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

• Experience working with customers in professional services, consulting, accounting, marketing, education, travel or healthcare.

• Experience in fintech, payments, SaaS or another fast-growing technology business.

• Familiarity with APIs, integrations or technical solution selling.

• Experience managing or selling products such as payments, foreign exchange, business accounts, cards, expense management, bill pay or treasury.

• Experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM.

• Experience leading commercial negotiations involving multiple products, senior stakeholders, procurement, legal or other review processes.

• Experience using customer or transactional data to diagnose opportunities and improve account performance.

• Comfort operating in a high-growth environment with evolving priorities, high standards and meaningful ownership.

• A curious, commercially minded approach and a willingness to continuously deepen your product and industry knowledge.

• You have a track record of hitting your numbers, and you’re motivated by stretch goals.

• You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.

• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.

• You communicate clearly and directly across cultures, and you're thoughtful about how context shifts meaning across borders.

• You can advocate hard for a position, then fully support the team's direction once a call is made.

SME & Growth at Airwallex is about more than closing deals. We help small and mid-market businesses solve real financial challenges across borders: getting paid globally, managing multi-currency accounts, paying suppliers, and running spend across markets from a single platform. You're not selling a feature. You're helping founders and finance leaders replace fragmented financial operations with one global system that actually scales.

It's a function for sellers who like to build, not follow a script: curious, resourceful, and comfortable figuring things out in markets that are still wide open. You get real autonomy to create value, build relationships, and move opportunities forward.

If you want to sell a serious product, solve real problems for ambitious businesses, and build your career fast, this is a place to do it.

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.

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.