Associate Director, Revenue Strategy, SME

airwallex·US - New York·3mo ago
Other GTMFull-timeOnsiteDirectorUnited StatesUSD 180K–USD 245K/year

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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 to see it in full.

 

About the team

The Strategy & Operations team at Airwallex plays a pivotal role in driving the company's overall growth and efficiency. We are a collaborative group of analysts, strategists, and operational experts who are passionate about translating vision into action. We leverage data insights, sharp problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of the business to optimize processes, identify growth opportunities, and ensure Airwallex operates efficiently and effectively at scale.

What you’ll do

The Associate Director, Revenue Strategy, US sits at the core of our US Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Sales team and will work across a number of functions to help drive growth for this segment. Reporting to the Director of Strategy, you will work closely with the commercial and operations team to focus on driving our GTM strategy. You will work closely with Sales, Operations, Marketing and RevOps teams to drive cross-functional high-impact strategy initiatives with a view to accelerating our revenue growth.

This role is based in New York City.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement the long-range strategic plan for Airwallex’s SME business.

  • Define commercial strategy, processes, and tools with SME commercial teams.

  • Coordinate and prioritize US product launches with cross-functional stakeholders (product, compliance, legal, commercial).

  • Lead planning and budgeting, establishing key strategic priorities for actionable, quantitative plans.

  • Engage top companies to create future-state visions, linking Airwallex's capabilities to customer strategic requirements.

  • Support Sales through Business Development: source/close SME customers, formulate value propositions, develop channel partnerships, and grow the brand.

  • Project manage collaboratively with local and international cross-functional teams (legal, compliance, operations, product, etc.).

  • Work closely with operations for seamless customer onboarding. Improve processes by leveraging regional methods to scale lead generation and commercial activities.

  • Communicate needs for Product enhancements: identify product-market fit, collate feedback, and prioritize enhancements to drive growth.

  • Work closely with Sales Leader to devise and execute initiatives supporting sales effectiveness.

  • Drive GTM experiments using data and business acumen for improved sales efficiency.

  • Influence and collaborate effectively with stakeholders in Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and Operations.

Who you are

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

Minimum Qualifications:

  • At least 7 years of experience (10 for Associate Director), preferably in top-tier strategy/management consulting or equivalent

  • Analytical thinking: You like working with data, can create reports & processes with ease, and love to optimize

  • Track record of collaborating across teams: You can effectively partner with sales, operations, design and marketing

  • Strong communication skills: you’re able to articulate complex concepts in a simple way

  • Self-starter: You spot opportunities to make things better and take ownership over them

  • Commercial acumen, including ability to create commercial proposals

  • Technology, financial services and/or experience in a high growth environment is preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Fintech/B2B experience and consulting experience

  • Experience scaling a late stage technology company GTM motion for higher volume segments like SME

  • SQL and experience with BI tool (Tableau, Looker etc)

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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 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.