General Manager – Growth

October 24

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Wave Mobile Money

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Fintech • B2C

Wave Mobile Money is a company that offers a revolutionary mobile money service. Their platform allows users to deposit, withdraw, and send money with minimal fees—only 1% for sending money. Customers can pay bills and buy airtime instantly for free. Wave ensures the protection of users' finances with best-in-class security and provides customer support through a toll-free number. The service is praised for its simplicity, efficiency, and convenience, making it a popular choice for transferring money and managing mobile financial transactions.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Create and execute plans to grow our core mobile money business in newer markets. This will mainly focus on operational excellence with in-country teams, but also involve coordination with product, finance & marketing. • Deeply understand your users: gather insights, test hypotheses, and turn learnings into scalable growth tactics and then execute on those lessons at a country level. • Use data and experimentation to test, learn, and scale growth initiatives quickly. • Spend time in Wave markets visiting users and in-country teams. Work closely with those teams to drive operational excellence on scaling strategies. • Initiate creative local marketing strategies and user growth campaigns. • Manage a rapidly growing team across multiple markets and continue to build the team out by attracting the best talent across all functions. • Manage both business KPIs and the P&Ls for growing markets in close coordination with the CEO.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of proven success leading a team that has scaled a consumer product in an emerging market. • Strong analytical skills: comfortable with data, metrics, and experimentation. • Exceptional leadership and people management skills: you’ve built and grown high-performing teams. • Excellent communication skills in English. French is a strong plus. • Passion for Wave’s mission of financial inclusion and the grit to thrive in fast-changing environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates. • We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to strong performers who have been with the company for more than six months. • Our salaries are competitive and it includes a generous equity package. • Major benefits: • Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country). • 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance. • Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays. • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.