Sales Manager, Travel, Commercial

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.

The Commercial Business team at Airwallex is a passionate group of collaborators and business champions dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to thrive in the global economy. We combine deep financial expertise with a growth mindset, working closely with our clients to understand their unique needs and develop tailored solutions that streamline cross-border payments and unlock new revenue streams. As a team, we are driven by a desire to make a positive impact and are constantly innovating to find new ways to support the success of our SME customers.

As a sales manager within our travel vertical, you'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution to build and lead a high-performing team. You are a highly strategic and structured thinker: you know how to analyze problems and solve them at their root. You know how to lead people, motivate them, and build highly resilient teams, and you model an entrepreneurial and solutions oriented mindset as you work to achieve quarterly and annual revenue goals with your team. We're looking for candidates who bring a combination of travel industry knowledge and payments expertise that will help our team excel in this market.

This role requires in office presence in New York City.

• Lead, coach and manage a growing team of 3+ Account Executives (AEs) within our travel vertical

• Establish a great relationship with our AEs and coach the team on sales methodologies, strategies, tactics to win, close and improve sales effectiveness

• Actively drive the creation of our sales and GTM strategy: what our value props should be, how we should pitch, and iterate regularly based on results

• Build out a world class team: you should know how to hire A players and know what to look for in excellent sellers

• Directly assist in closing deals, as well as carry your own quota

• Manage the day to day operations of the team

We're looking for candidates who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Technology sales team management experience, with at least 8 years of total sales experience

• Fintech and/or Payments experience within the travel industry

• Highly skilled at managing multiple priorities and projects: one hour you’ll be on sales calls for our most important clients, the next you’ll be interviewing people to expand the team, and the next you’ll be analyzing metrics for trends and insights

• Experience deploying sales frameworks and methodologies to drive improvements within your team

• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills - in one day you will be getting on customer calls, closing deals with your team, reporting on metrics, hiring your team, coaching reps, and working on GTM strategy

• A track record of cross-functional collaboration, partnering with internal and external teams across the company

Preferred qualifications:

• An owner with an entrepreneurial mindset: you own your work, your function, your results and everything in between and you know how to roll your sleeves up and creatively problem solve your way out of issues

• Experience scaling a sales team, and more importantly, a strong passion for leadership and talent development

• Experience working with APIs

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.

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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.