Bilingual Account Executive, SME & Growth

About Airwallex

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.

About the team Supporting bilingual customers is an important part of how the SME & Growth Business team at Airwallex helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) thrive in the global economy. We are a passionate group of collaborators and business champions who 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 across Canada.

What you’ll do You will play a key role in helping Airwallex grow its presence with bilingual customers, particularly in Quebec and across Canada. You will establish meaningful and challenging conversations with C-level and company founders that lead you to establish strong relationships and close big deals with these companies. You will be fully responsible for prospecting leads, activating your network, and creating business connections across English- and French-speaking markets. In the long term, this role will have a hybrid in-office component.

This role is based in Toronto, Canada, with 3 days a week in our downtown office.

Responsibilities:

Implement a multithreaded outbound sales approach for prospecting leads, activating your networking and creating business connections

Own the outbound sales process from end-to-end

Be an expert in all aspects of the Airwallex platform, our customers, and our solutions

Clearly communicate the challenges in the cross-border payments industry and the value of Airwallex solutions to empower companies to go global

Negotiate partnership agreements and commercials contracts in conjunction with legal, finance and strategy through to execution

Help craft and redesign processes to ensure Airwallex can move quickly and succeed at scale

Be a team player and set the standard for our entire SME sales function

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications:

Fluency in both French and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills in both languages.

2 years of outbound sales in SaaS or high-tech growth companies

A proven record of exceeding targets in outbound B2B sales and experience selling solutions ideally in our target verticals, including e-commerce, marketplaces, and SaaS/Technology

Strategic thinker and able to drive 'partnership' conversations vs. 'sales' conversations - Solution Oriented

A FIO (Figure It Out) attitude and are willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve results

Experience building pipeline and closing business with customers in Quebec or other French-speaking markets in Canada