Senior Account Executive, Enterprise, Spend

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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.   HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT We’re building a new Enterprise Spend team focused on winning and expanding large enterprise customers around Airwallex’s spend management and expense solutions. As an early Enterprise Account Executive, you’ll help define the sales playbook, shape go-to-market strategy, and close complex deals in a category that’s still taking shape. - Own the full enterprise sales cycle for Airwallex’s spend management and expense solutions, from prospecting and discovery through commercial negotiation and contract signature. - Build and manage a high-quality pipeline across DACH through targeted outbound prospecting, partner referrals, field events, and industry networks. - Lead consultative, value-led conversations with CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of Operations, IT, Procurement, and other senior stakeholders across complex buying committees. - Shape the Enterprise Spend sales playbook and go-to-market strategy as an early hire on a newly formed enterprise motion. - Develop compelling business cases, tailored demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts that connect Airwallex’s capabilities to customer needs and measurable business outcomes. - Partner closely with Solutions Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Implementation to orchestrate opportunities, share customer insight, influence the roadmap, and support a strong post-sale handover. - Maintain rigorous CRM hygiene, including accurate pipeline data, forecasting, and activity logging in Salesforce. - Build deep expertise in enterprise spend management, travel and expense, invoice automation, and corporate cards, while staying close to market trends, procurement patterns, and the competitive landscape. - Represent Airwallex at industry events, conferences, and customer roundtables, and contribute to messaging, objection handling, and competitive positioning. This role is based in Munich or Berlin, with three days per week in the office and an average of two to three trips per month within DACH. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Essentials - 10+ years of professional experience. - 3+ years of B2B enterprise software or SaaS sales experience in a new-business, hunting role, with a proven track record of exceeding quota. - Demonstrable experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals with long sales cycles. - Experience managing the full commercial process, including bespoke agreements, procurement and legal negotiations, and coordination across internal teams. - Strong discovery and qualification skills, with the ability to uncover business pain, urgency, decision processes, and fit. - Value-selling and business acumen, with the ability to connect product capabilities to measurable business outcomes and ROI. - Executive and stakeholder-selling skills, including the ability to build credibility, multi-thread accounts, and align diverse decision-makers. - Strong negotiation and commercial judgment, with the ability