Channel Partnership Manager, South Korea

About Airwallex
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.
About the team
The SME & Growth Business team at Airwallex is a passionate group of collaborators and business champions dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to thrive in the global economy. We combine deep financial expertise with a growth mindset, working closely with our clients to understand their unique needs and develop tailored solutions that streamline cross-border payments and unlock new revenue streams. As a team, we are driven by a desire to make a positive impact and are constantly innovating to find new ways to support the success of our SME customers.
What you'll do
The Channel Partnerships team in Korea is responsible for expanding Airwallex's partner relationships, specifically across three core industries: Accounting, Start-ups & Ecommerce. Airwallex's partner relationships drive brand awareness, customer acquisition as well as various forms of product integrations and co-marketing opportunities. We are seeking a strategic, data driven Channel Partnerships Manager to support the Korea Partnerships team.
Responsibilities:

• Build deep relationships with your portfolio to best understand their needs & provide value based solutions utilising our range of products and services
• Be an advocate for Airwallex and ensure our Business Account (SME) customers are using our services to their full potential
• Achieve revenue targets by focusing on input metrics to deliver the relevant outputs
• Forecast & build out a pipeline within Salesforce to accurately track numbers for the business to understand how/when/what success you're driving
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders to share insights from customers & help build out the roadmap of products from this
• We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

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:

• You have experience - at least 3+ years of B2B experience managing and growing technology/Fintech relationships with SME accounts
• Strong verbal and written communication in both Cantonese (Chinese) & English required
• You have worked previously with complex sales, feeling comfortable selling to C-level executives
• You have an analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, trends and client information to derive actionable insights
• You are a relationship builder - you build meaningful, collaborative relationships with all people that you work with, both internally and externally
• You can speak to anyone - you should have exceptional communication skills and be comfortable conversing with people of all backgrounds and domains
• You are a problem solver - you look for creative solutions and understand new products and ask the right questions before figuring out a solution. You can easily simplify complexity for others
• You are success-oriented and hold yourself accountable for delivering key outcomes, including KPIs and revenue targets
• You are technically minded and have prior experience working in API B2B sales or account management for a similar organisation

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