Manager, Account Management, SME & Growth, France

Airwallex; France; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in Paris is seeking a leader to build and manage a four-person Account Management team serving the French customer base, owning onboarding, adoption, value realization and expansion. You will collaborate with Sales, Onboarding, Support, KYC, Risk, Product and Ops to deliver outcomes across payments, FX, cards, Spend, payouts and related products.

Within the first 90 days, you'll map portfolios, priority accounts, risks and expansion opportunities, establish team cadence and visibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Account Management, Customer Success, Sales, Expansion or a related B2B commercial role.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience, ideally leading a team of 3-8.
• Proven ownership of retention, renewals, expansion, adoption, customer health or comparable outcomes.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, fintech, payments, banking, FX, spend management or similar.
• Fluent French and professional English.
• Experience managing strategic or multi-entity customers across France and international markets.
• Experience in pre-sales, onboarding design or solution development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of four Account Managers responsible for retaining, supporting and expanding Airwallex's French customer base.
• Own the team's post-sale operating model across onboarding, adoption, value realisation and expansion.
• Coordinate with Sales, Onboarding, Support, KYC, Risk, Product and Operations to improve customer outcomes.
• Map portfolios, priority accounts and risks within the first 90 days; drive autonomy and expansion opportunities.

Skills

Account Management

People Management

B2B SaaS

French & English fluency

Commercial judgment

Job description

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.

How you'll make impact

Lead and develop a team of four Account Managers responsible for retaining, supporting and expanding Airwallex's French customer base. You'll own the team's post-sale operating model across onboarding, adoption, value realisation and expansion, while staying directly involved in strategic accounts, customer escalations, onboarding quality and growth opportunities. Build practical playbooks, portfolio coverage models and operating cadences that improve customer outcomes, retention, adoption and expansion across payments, FX, cards, Spend, payouts and related products. Improve visibility and predictability across onboarding progress, time-to-value, product adoption, customer health, expansion pipeline, GRR, NRR, satisfaction and retention. Drive a repeatable, customer-led expansion motion based on validated customer needs, business triggers and demonstrated value. Orchestrate complex level 2 customer issues with Support, KYC, Risk, Product and Operations, turning recurring friction into process improvements rather than repeated individual escalations. Partner with Sales, Onboarding, Support, KYC, Risk, Product and Operations to improve customer outcomes and make Airwallex easier to adopt and grow in France. Within the first 90 days, you'll have mapped the portfolios, priority accounts, risks and expansion opportunities, established the team cadence and created visibility on the main customer and operational issues. Within six to twelve months, priority accounts should have clear plans and stakeholder coverage, the core playbooks should be consistently used, leading indicators should improve against an agreed baseline, and the four Account Managers should show stronger autonomy, commercial judgement and consistency. You'll work from our Paris office three days a week.

What we're looking for

Essentials

• 5+ years in Account Management, Customer Success, Sales, Expansion or a related B2B commercial role.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience, ideally leading a team of 3-8.
• Proven ownership of retention, renewals, expansion, adoption, customer health or comparable outcomes.
• Experience working with NRR, GRR, churn, expansion, adoption, time-to-value or customer satisfaction metrics.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, fintech, payments, banking, FX, spend management, ERP or another complex operational environment.
• Strong customer-facing experience with Finance, Operations, Treasury, Procurement, E-commerce, founders or senior executives.
• Evidence of building or improving customer processes, playbooks, account segmentation, health reviews, handovers or escalation routines.
• Ability to influence Support, KYC, Risk, Product and Operations without direct authority.
• Fluent French and professional English.
• Strong commercial judgement, ownership and comfort working in ambiguity.
• Preferred Experience in payments, fintech, banking, FX, cards, spend management or financial infrastructure.
• Experience with KYC, AML, Risk, Compliance or regulated customer operations.
• Experience managing strategic or multi-entity customers across France and international markets.
• Experience in pre-sales, onboarding design or solution development.
• Experience in Travel, E-commerce, SaaS, Technology or Professional Services.

You'll thrive here if

You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken. You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway. You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work. You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect. You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.

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