Account Executive, South Korea

Airwallex (UK) Limited

Job Overview

Location

KR - Seoul

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As an Account Executive for South Korea at Airwallex, you will drive revenue growth and new client acquisition within the country’s trading and distribution ecosystem, playing a critical role in expanding the company’s footprint in a key Asian market.
• Your day-to-day responsibilities include owning the full sales cycle—from prospecting and pipeline building to negotiation, closing, and post-sale onboarding—while managing relationships with distributors, trading houses, and channel partners across finance, treasury, operations, and compliance stakeholders.
• You will join a high-performing, globally distributed sales team at Airwallex, a fast-growing fintech valued at $8B with over 2,200 employees across 26 offices, dedicated to building the future of global payments and financial infrastructure for ambitious businesses.
• In this role, you will develop deep expertise in cross-border financial solutions, sharpen your consultative selling and negotiation skills, and have the opportunity to significantly impact Airwallex’s market penetration in South Korea while advancing your career in a high-impact, founder-led environment.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical or financial product, with a track record of top performance in business development and outbound sales
• Strong inside and outbound sales experience with demonstrated success winning customers in trading and distribution within South Korea
• Excellent presentation, communication, and solution-selling skills tailored to distributor-specific needs; experience identifying and influencing multiple key decision-makers and stakeholders across finance, treasury, operations, procurement, and compliance
• Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements and multi-product sales, progressing opportunities through multi-stage sales cycles, including FX pricing, multi-currency settlement terms, and risk considerations
• Strong analytical skills and an organized, data-driven way of working, including pipeline management and forecasting
• Superior verbal and written communication skills in Korean and English
• Familiarity with Korea’s cross-border trading corridors (e.g., KRW–USD/CNY/JPY/EUR) and a customer-first approach to solving payments, collections, payouts, and treasury challenges

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant upside through commission structure for won opportunities
• Opportunity to work with a globally recognized fintech backed by top-tier investors including Visa, Mastercard, Sequoia, and Salesforce Ventures
• Access to a collaborative, high-performance culture that values founder-like energy, curiosity, and ownership
• Chance to work with innovative technology and solve complex, high-visibility problems in global payments and embedded finance
• Professional growth through exposure to cross-functional teams in product, risk, compliance, and support
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and diversity

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

Degree Required

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About Airwallex (UK) Limited

Airwallex is a global financial technology company providing cross-border payment and banking infrastructure for businesses. It offers multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, card issuing, expense management, and embedded finance APIs. Founded in Melbourne in 2015, the company serves enterprises and SMEs across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, operating under licenses in multiple jurisdictions and processing billions in annualized transaction volume.

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