Senior Manager, GTM Partnerships, SME & growth

<h2><strong>About Airwallex</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles"> <u>operating principles</u></a> to see it in full.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2>How you'll make impact</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll lead and develop a team of four partnership managers and own the partnerships strategy for France. This is a strategic, hands-on player-coach role focused on commercial partnerships and lead generation, not technical integrations.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the French partnerships strategy, prioritising Accounting and Travel &amp; E-commerce first and aligned with the SME &amp; Growth GTM.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set partner ICPs, commercial priorities, account plans, pipeline expectations and operating standards across the team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead, coach and develop the four partnership managers, giving each a clear mandate and measurable pipeline objectives.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Personally source and progress a portfolio of strategic partnerships in at least one priority vertical.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build repeatable referral, reseller, co-selling and partner-led outbound motions across Accounting, Travel, Payments, E-commerce and Venture Capital.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turn signed partnerships into active commercial channels, not passive logos.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Sales on account mapping, lead routing, qualification, follow-up and conversion of partner-sourced opportunities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Track partner-sourced and influenced pipeline, conversion, time to first referral and revenue contribution, scaling what creates quality pipeline and stopping what doesn't.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Marketing, RevOps, Product, Solutions, Risk and Compliance to remove friction from the partner journey.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll work from our Paris office at least three days a week.<br /></p><h2>What we're looking for<br /></h2><h3>Essentials</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">8+ years in partnerships, channel sales, indirec