Account Executive, Embedded Finance & Platforms

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 250000 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 2300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

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 youre 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.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About The Role

As an Account Executive in Embedded Finance & Platforms you will be responsible for winning new business across Airwallexs embedded finance and platform product suite. You will work with platforms marketplaces SaaS businesses fintechs and other high potential verticals that want to embed financial services into their customer experience.

This role is best suited to someone who combines strong commercial acumen with a solid understanding of payments APIs and platform led business models. You should be comfortable operating across medium and large opportunities navigating multiple stakeholders and turning complex product capabilities into clear business value.

What Youll Do

• Proactively identify prospect and convert new business opportunities across ANZ with a focus on platforms marketplaces SaaS providers fintechs and other businesses looking to embed payments and financial products into their ecosystem.

• Own and drive the full sales cycle from strategic prospecting through to close across mid-market and large market opportunities.

• Lead consultative solution based sales engagements by understanding customer business models product strategy and integration requirements then mapping Airwallexs embedded finance capabilities to those needs.

• Partner closely with Solutions Engineering Product Legal Finance and Strategy to progress complex opportunities and execute commercial agreements.

• Build manage and maintain a high quality pipeline while contributing to the ongoing evolution of sales plays messaging and best practices for the Embedded Finance & Platforms business.

• Develop strong multi threaded relationships across technical operational commercial and executive stakeholders within target accounts.

• Act as a trusted advisor by simplifying complex product and infrastructure concepts into clear compelling business value.

• Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive landscape market trends and platform use cases to help shape GTM execution in Australia.

What Youll Bring

• Proven success in B2B financial services sales with a strong track record of exceeding quota and driving new business growth.

• Experience selling complex solutions in payments fintech SaaS infrastructure or API-led environments.

• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills with experience navigating longer and more complex sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders.

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to engage confidently with technical teams operators founders and senior executives.

• The ability to understand and articulate platform business models embedded finance use cases and the value of API based financial infrastructure.

• A proactive self directed mindset with strong ownership and accountability for results.

• A collaborative approach and the ability to work cross functionally to deliver strong customer outcomes.

• Strong judgment and attention to detail when managing opportunities crafting proposals and progressing deals through to close.

• High learning agility and curiosity with the ability to quickly build credibility in a fast moving market and product environment. This role is within our Embedded Finance team.

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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 dont 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.

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