Lead People Partner, Wave

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Remote in EU, UK

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Wave

Financial services for underbanked communities

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Wave

Financial services for underbanked communities

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPaymentsMobile

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
Remote in EU, UK

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPaymentsMobile

Company mission

To make Africa the first cashless continent.

Company mission

To make Africa the first cashless continent.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

9% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Because of things like high fees and a lack of local branches, about half of the adults in Africa still do not have a bank account. Although this is an improvement on past estimates, the continent is still significantly underbanked - which is what Wave helps to combat.

Wave addresses this banking gap with technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible via mobile. The impact has been substantial. A 2021 GSMA report suggested over 500 million mobile money accounts were registered in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at nearly $500 billion.

Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Mali, using steady investment to expand its footprint. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations.

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Benefits

  • 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
  • Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
  • Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
  • Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
  • Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries

Company values

  • We’re egolessly mission driven
  • We focus ruthlessly on the most important thing
  • We’re embarrassingly honest to stay aligned and move quickly
  • We don’t wait – we live our fullest lives now
  • We maximize our rate of learning

Funding (2 rounds)

Mar 2022

$10m

LATE VC

Sep 2021

$200m

SERIES A

Total funding: $210m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Drew Durbin

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).

Lincoln Quirk

(Co-Founder)

Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).

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