Sales Manager, Travel, SME & Growth

About Airwallex

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 1,700 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.

About the Team

The SME & Growth 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.

What You'll Do

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 is based remotely in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• 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

Who You Are

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 :

Preferred qualifications :

Equal Opportunity

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.