Implementation Manager - Spend

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 2,200 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 https://www.airwallex.com/us/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 Merchant Services team partners with our clients to realise their full potential through the adoption of Airwallex products that drive their growth and success. Within Merchant Services, our Spend and card implementation specialists sit at the heart of how customers design, launch, and scale their global spend programmes on Airwallex. We influence revenue growth across our Spend and issuing portfolio and collaborate with sales, strategy, product, and engineering teams to provide the best experience for our most valued customers. Our team works alongside commercial teams throughout the pre‑sales, solution design, and integration stages, then owns the orchestration from contract signature through go‑live and early adoption. We are committed to empowering businesses with the tools they need to run high‑performing, compliant, and scalable spend programmes across EMEA. What you’ll do As the Implementation Manager for our Spend Team, you will own the end‑to‑end delivery of complex Spend and corporate card implementations that bring our global spend management products to life for enterprise and high‑growth customers across EMEA. You will turn agreed business requirements and solution designs into actionable implementation plans, orchestrating cross‑functional teams and external stakeholders to deliver on time, on scope, and to a high quality bar. You’ll sit at the intersection of Sales, Merchant Services, Solutions Engineering, Product, Operations, Risk and external partners (e.g. networks, processors, manufacturers), ensuring that every phase from pre‑sale through go‑live and early spend activation runs smoothly. This role is based in Amsterdam (3 days in office), with implementation coverage across EMEA. Responsibilities: - Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and internal teams on high-value implementations and expansions, shaping integration approaches, system configuration, and overall solution design. - Partner with activation / onboarding and account management teams to translate customer requirements into scalable architectures, particularly where ERP, HRIS, and API integrations are core to the rollout. - Work with sales teams on technical discovery to understand customer syst