Strategic Account Director

Growth (Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Partnerships)

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Role Summary

Location:
London

Hybrid

Full-Time

The Strategic Account Director is a new-business, quota-carrying hunter responsible for landing the largest, most complex enterprise logos in the market. You own the full pursuit — from target identification and outbound generation through multi-threaded, committee-driven sales cycles to signed, revenue-producing contracts. Your prospects run cross-border volume at scale, they are today served by incumbent banks or specialist fintechs, and displacing that incumbent is the job.

This is a role for someone who is energized by the chase: building conviction where none exists, getting into the CFO's and Treasurer's office cold, orchestrating a pursuit team through a long and technical evaluation, and closing seven-figure relationships. You set the bar for how strategic new business gets won at Payoneer.

This is a strategic role. It is deliberately seated centrally under Global Sales so the strategic-accounts motion can be built, proven, and standardized before ownership is distributed to the regions. You will work hand in hand with regional heads of sales for in-market coordination and, over time, help shape how this function scales across the field.

What You'll Do

• Hunt and land net-new strategic accounts. Own a new-business quota. Identify, prioritize, and pursue the highest-value target accounts in your territory (typically $500K+/month cross-border volume, up to $10M+/month strategic targets) and convert them into signed, funded customers.
• Generate your own pipeline. Build top-of-funnel through disciplined, research-led outbound — direct executive outreach, referrals, partner and ecosystem channels, and events. Do not wait for leads; create them.
• Break into the buying committee cold. Get in front of and build conviction with CFOs, Treasurers, Finance Operations, and Compliance/Risk leaders at target accounts. Multi-thread deliberately so a deal never rests on a single contact.
• Displace the incumbent. Position Payoneer's speed, global coverage, economics, and platform breadth to unseat incumbent banks and specialist competitors. Run competitive displacement plays and build the business case that moves an entrenched buyer.
• Own complex, long-cycle deals end to end. Drive multi-stakeholder, technical, compliance-sensitive evaluations from first meeting to close. Own the mutual close plan, procurement, legal, and commercial negotiation.
• Sell the platform. Lead with value, not features. Land the entry wedge and architect the deal to open cross-border payments plus high-value services (Capital, Treasury/FX, Embedded/Platform Payments, Workforce/EOR, and emerging rails) — maximizing initial contract value and expansion potential.
• Qualify with discipline. Apply Payoneer's Sandler-based methodology — Up-Front Contracts, Pain Funnel, budget and decision qualification — to every pursuit so you invest team resources only in winnable, real deals.
• Orchestrate the pursuit team. Direct Solutions/Pre-Sales, Product Specialists, Compliance, and Rev Ops as a…