Senior Account Director
Hawk· Sales & Business Development
RemoteFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior APAC-focused sales leader responsible for growth across Singapore, Hong Kong, and priority APAC markets by converting market credibility into repeatable new-logo growth, leading top-of-funnel activities, enterprise deal strategy, and executive relationship building.
Responsibilities
- Act as the top-of-funnel champion for APAC, building a consistent engine of qualified enterprise opportunities.
- Develop a targeted territory plan for Singapore, Hong Kong, and priority APAC markets, including named accounts, buying centers, partner channels, and event opportunities.
- Leverage Hawk’s 10+ existing regional referenceable logos to increase credibility, accelerate trust, and create warm entry points with similar institutions.
- Identify, engage, and develop relationships with decision-makers at banks, fintechs, payment providers, and regulated financial institutions.
- Create executive-level urgency around financial crime prevention, fraud prevention, AML modernization, AI-driven compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Own the full sales cycle from prospecting and discovery through business case development, negotiation, procurement, legal review, and close.
- Demonstrate strong closing discipline, including deal strategy, mutual action plans, stakeholder mapping, procurement navigation, and executive alignment.
- Develop tailored value propositions that connect Hawk’s capabilities to each prospect’s risk, compliance, fraud, operational, and commercial priorities.
- Navigate complex enterprise buying committees involving Compliance, Risk, Fraud, Operations, Technology, Procurement, Legal, and Executive stakeholders.
- Maintain a strong close rate while protecting long-term customer fit, referenceability, and strategic account potential.
- Work independently with limited day-to-day oversight while maintaining strong transparency with global Sales leadership.
- Collaborate with Hawk’s regional team in a fast, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial manner.
- Partner with Pre-Sales and Product to shape demos, proof points, proposals, and solution narratives for APAC buyers.
- Align with Marketing on localized campaigns, executive events, thought leadership, and industry visibility.
- Coordinate with Customer Success to identify expansion opportunities and strengthen customer advocacy across the region.
- Maintain accurate CRM hygiene, pipeline reporting, forecasting, next steps, and deal risk visibility.
- Create structured account plans for priority prospects and strategic customers.
- Use data, market intelligence, and buyer feedback to inform regional growth strategy and internal prioritization.
- Provide leadership with clear updates on pipeline health, deal progression, blockers, competitive dynamics, and support needed.
- Represent Hawk professionally at conferences, roundtables, customer meetings, and executive-level industry forums.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of enterprise B2B software, SaaS, RegTech, FinTech, fraud, AML, compliance, data, or financial technology sales experience.
Skills
Required:Enterprise B2B software / SaaS / RegTech / FinTech salesHunter sales mindsetComplex enterprise sales cycles
Benefits
- N/A specified in description not included
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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