Senior Program Manager, Wave
$151.1-177.8k
+ Equity Package + Award Bonuses
Financial services for underbanked communities
Be an early applicant
Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151.1-177.8k
+ Equity Package + Award Bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product, project or program management experience required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment, like a startup or high-growth company
- Experience working in a multi-cultural environment
- Deep comfort and familiarity working with data, including Intermediate/Expert experience analysing metrics using Excel (or similar software)
- French is strongly preferred, but not required
- Comfort travelling to West Africa at least twice a year, preferably more
- You might be a good fit if you:
- Thrive in ambiguity and build clarity. You think MVP-first, but can scale what works. You get satisfaction from unblocking teammates, not just hitting goals
- Have worked as a Product or Project Manager at a mission-driven software company
- Have experience managing programs or projects in Africa
- Are excessively detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do
- Are a self-starter and proactive about achieving ambitious targets
- Are intellectually curious, creative in the way you go about tackling problems, and embrace failure as a means to spark innovation and growth
- Are comfortable defaulting to over-communication and overreaching when it comes to coordination
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager who is creative, optimistic, organised, and loves working with data and people
- This person will report to the Chief People Officer and drive projects across our CPO’s full scope (which includes both People Operations and Customer Support)
- In this role, you'll be responsible for managing cross-functional projects that improve the employee journey at Wave
- You will work with the leadership team to identify problems and ensure that they get solved
- Each day will look different, and the right fit for this role will enjoy ambiguity, challenge, and the experience of constantly learning new things (vs. being an expert)
- You’ll have end-to-end ownership of people projects, from first draft to launch, and the space to do it your way
- Work with senior leaders to identify pain points in employee experience and make a business case for how to address them
- Build and manage teams as we scale People Operations and Customer Support at Wave. As we evolve our org structure to keep pace with the business, spin up new leaders and hand off teams. While this role will involve team management, the exact makeup of the teams will vary over time
- Run and improve People team processes like our OKRs, People Team All Hands, and internal communications
- Collaborate with our data analysts to build dashboards covering support and people topics, such as performance management. Use these well-designed dashboards to drive action and influence leadership
Application process
- Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals
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 and reach unicorn status. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations. Despite challenger companies emerging, Wave has a considerable head start on the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
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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