Sr Payments Sales Manager

Aven Hospitality; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 PTO days

Volunteer time off

Medical & Wellness program

12 weeks parental leave

Flexible working arrangements

Rewards programs

Employee development events

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Aven Hospitality is seeking a Sr. Payments Sales Manager to drive adoption and monetization of Aven Payments within hospitality accounts, leveraging deep enterprise SaaS sales expertise.

You will own regional payments revenue growth, lead GTM for embedded payments, and partner with Product, Pricing, and Customer Success to deliver revenue and operational efficiency.

This role engages C-level executives, builds business cases, and shapes roadmap strategies to maximize GPV and share of wallet.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise software, payments, fintech, or hospitality technology sales experience.
• Proven track record carrying and exceeding quota.
• Experience selling payment processing, merchant acquiring, payment gateways, orchestration, embedded finance, or related solutions.
• Experience building executive relationships and managing complex sales cycles.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Own regional payments revenue growth, GPV growth, attach rate, and share-of-wallet targets.
• Build and execute a pipeline strategy focused on payments adoption and expansion.
• Lead sales motions for both new customer acquisition and existing customer migration.
• Convert contracted volume into active live payment customers.
• Position Aven Payments as the default payment solution for Booking Engine, Voice Agent, and future channels.
• Lead conversations around payment modernization, checkout optimization, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of payments offering before alternative models.
• Identify high-GPV opportunities and partner with Customer Success and Account Management teams to increase adoption.

Skills

Enterprise software sales

Payments/fintech expertise

Executive relationship management

Quota attainment track record

Strategic account management

Complex sales cycles

Job description

Aven Hospitality is an innovative technology provider powered by SynXis®, the leading global hospitality commerce and distribution platform. We empower hoteliers around the world to exceed expectations, solve daily challenges, and stay ahead of the competition.

With our comprehensive portfolio of solutions, hoteliers can manage distribution, retailing, payments, operations, and more. Providing hoteliers the tools to maximize revenue, improve operational efficiency, and deliver personalized guest experiences that drive satisfaction.

Our tools are built to seamlessly integrate with each hotelier’s unique strategy, elevating guest satisfaction and creating meaningful connections.

We are pioneering AI in hospitality technology to unlock new opportunities, drive efficiency, and personalize the guest experience. By prioritizing stability, scalability, and data-driven insights, we equip hoteliers to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing landscape, ready for whatever comes next..

About the Role

Aven Hospitality is building the next generation of embedded payments for hospitality, powered by a directpayment processorintegration and tightly integrated into the SynXis platform. TheSr. Payments Sales Managerwill drive adoption, monetization, and growth of Aven Payments across new and existing customers.

This role owns regionalpaymentsrevenue growth, GPV expansion, attach rate, and share of wallet. The ideal candidate combines enterprise SaaS salesexpertisewith payment acceptance,acquiring, fintech, or embeddedpaymentsexperience.

What You’ll Do

Drive Payments Revenue Growth

• Own regional payments revenue, GPV growth, attach rate, and share-of-wallet targets.
• Build and execute a pipeline strategy focused onpaymentsadoption and expansion.
• Lead sales motions for both new customer acquisition and existing customer migration.
• Convert contracted volume into active live payment customers.

Lead Embedded Payments GTM Execution

• Position Aven Payments as the default payment solution for Booking Engine, Voice Agent, and future supported channels.
• Lead customer conversations around payment modernization, checkout optimization, VCC automation, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of Aven’s payments offering before alternative orchestration models.

Activate the Existing Customer Base

• Identifyand prioritize high-GPV customer opportunities.
• Executebackbookmigration programs and commercial incentives.
• Partner with Customer Success and Account Management teams to increase payment adoption and utilization.

Partner with Strategic Stakeholders

• Work closely with Product Management, Solutions Engineering, Pricing Strategy, Delivery Services, Finance, and Customer Success.
• Collaborate with strategicpartneron strategic account planning, co-sell opportunities, and GTM initiatives.
• Provide customer feedback that influences roadmap, packaging, and monetization strategy.

Executive-Level Selling

• Engage C-level executives, finance leaders, and hotel operators.
• Build business casesdemonstratingrevenue growth, operational efficiency, improved conversion, and reduced payment friction.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on hospitality payments and financial technology trends.

Success Metrics

• Paymentsrevenue growth
• Gross Payment Volume (GPV)
• Payments attach rate
• Share of wallet
• New customer activation
• Existing customer migration
• Pipeline generation and conversion
• Time-to-activation
• Strategic account adoption
• Payments-related ARR growth

Experience & Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of enterprise software, payments, fintech, or hospitality technology sales experience.
• Proventrack recordcarrying and exceeding quota.
• Experience selling payment processing, merchantacquiring, payment gateways, orchestration, embedded finance, or related solutions.
• Experience building executive relationships and managing complex sales cycles.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen.

Preferred

• Hospitality technology experience.
• Knowledge of card-present and card-not-present payments.
• Understanding ofpayment processors,acquiring, VCC processing, tokenization, reconciliation, and payment operations.
• Experience working with strategic partners such as Stripe, Adyen, Worldpay, Fiserv, Shift4, or similar providers.
• Experience with platform-based or embeddedpaymentsbusiness models.

Why Join Aven Payments

You will help build a strategic growth business for Aven Hospitality, transforming payments from a supporting capability into a core platform and revenue engine. This role offers the opportunity to shape market strategy, influence product direction, and help customers unlock higher conversion, improved cash flow, operational efficiency, and future financial services innovation.

Outstanding Benefits

• Very competitive compensation
• Generous Paid Time Off (25 PTO days)
• 8 Hours of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
• We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and Wellness Program
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• An infrastructure that allows flexible working arrangements
• Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
• Lots of fun and engaging employee development events

Reasonable Accommodation

Aven Hospitality is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Aven Hospitality position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Aven Hospitality at Contact Us

Determinationson requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Affirmative Action

Aven Hospitality is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW