Head of SME & Growth, Canada

About this role

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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The SME & Growth team at Airwallex is focused on helping ambitious Canadian businesses grow faster across borders. We work with companies that are scaling quickly and need better ways to manage payments, financial operations, and global growth. Canada is still an exciting market for us, with a lot of upside and plenty of room to build. That means this role comes with real scope, real visibility, and the chance to shape how we grow from here.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As the Head of SME & Growth, Canada, you will own the commercial strategy and results for the market. You’ll lead the team across sales, account management, and partnerships, and help build a more consistent, repeatable growth engine. This role is a mix of strategy, leadership, and execution. You’ll set direction, stay close to the work, and play a key role in how Airwallex shows up and wins in Canada.

This role is hybrid, based in Toronto