Account Executive, SME & Growth, France

FR - Paris · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026

At a glance

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 2,300 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.

The Account Executive for SME & Growth in Paris will help build the founding French team for Airwallex.
This role involves owning the full sales cycle for new SME customers with 50–1,000 employees, from prospecting through to closing.
You will build relationships with founders and senior finance leaders to provide multi-product solutions for global financial operations.

Own new SME customer acquisition across the full sales cycle, from prospecting and territory management through close.
Drive revenue growth by building relationships with founders and senior finance leaders.
Craft multi-product solutions that address complex technical requirements and help businesses manage their global financial operations.
Lead negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements and multi-product sales.
Represent Airwallex at client meetings and events.
Maintain accurate CRM records and forecasts.
Partner with colleagues across European offices to set new customer relationships up for success.

2+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical product.
Track record of top performance selling to SME customers in a competitive market.
Experience owning the full sales cycle, from prospecting to close, and managing a territory.
Ability to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products.
Strong presentation and communication skills, particularly in person with multiple stakeholders, including CXOs.
Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements and multi-product sales.
Superior verbal and written communication skills in English and French.
Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the space.
Meticulous CRM usage and forecasting.

Experience selling financial products, payments or other technical solutions to SME customers.
Experience working with customers across multiple markets or in a fast-growing international business.