Sales Development Representative, BENELUX

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 1,800 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.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the role

Based out of our Amsterdam office, this role will be focused on generating and qualifying leads that will build Airwallex’s SME and Growth sales pipeline across the BENELUX market. As a Dutch-speaking Sales Development Representative (SDR), you should be excited about engaging with prospects to find out about their needs, adept at identifying high-value opportunities and capable of managing early sales funnel activities.

While reporting to the London-based manager, you will be working with three other Account Executives. With the team, there are many opportunities to progress as the business continues to grow.  If you’re hungry, smart, persistent, and a great teammate, we want to hear from you!

You are used to delivering value in complex situations and are energised by learning about new and existing products. Finally, you enjoy building – you like to actively participate in the development of the demand generation and sales process, the articulation of Airwallex’s value proposition, and the creation of key tools and assets.

With the commission structure for this role, there is a significant upside for won opportunities.

We operate in a hybrid model, we work from the office a minimum of 3 days a week.

What you'll be doing:

• Initiate contact with potential customers through email outreach or cold calling and follow up on designated touchpoints in a customer journey

• Move quality leads through the funnel while connecting them to a salesperson and arranging meetings

• Develop relationships with prospects to uncover needs through effective questioning to qualify interest and viability to prepare hand-off to sales

• Update activity and contact information within the CRM system and support reporting efforts

• Inform and recommend outreach strategies and best practices through testing various types of touchpoints

• Contribute to building out best practices in this area as we grow the team

• Collaborate and provide feedback and insights to Marketing to help improve targeting and messaging

• Work closely with Account Executives on the handover & first call

About you:

• Target-oriented - You are motivated by stretch targets that facilitate business growth and reward you for direct impact

• Customer focused - You are excited to learn about your prospect’s business and rely on data to help solve issues

• Process driven - You enjoy developing, documenting, and following procedures to ensure they are efficient, scalable, and defensible

• A team player - You are a natural at building relationships with your colleagues but can work independently at ease

• A master prioritizer - You leverage sound judgment to quickly assess all the tasks at hand and expertly prioritize them

• Obsessively Curious - You know when to dig a little deeper to get to the bottom of a problem and solve it; in doing so, you ask the right questions necessary to arrive at a sound, risk-based decision

What you'll bring:

• Track record of top performance or prior success in a related activity

• Advanced verbal and written communication skills in Dutch are a must

• Strong interest in technology and/or financial services

• Self-starter who can operate in a hyper-growth environment

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organize regular team-building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.