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Our mission
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
How you'll help us achieve it
Are you a seasoned Business Development professional who thrives in a dynamic environment? Would you want to join a company that is fostering financial inclusion and driving economic empowerment on the African continent? Then this role is for you!
As a result-driven Business Development Manager with extensive market and industry knowledge, you will play a pivotal role in driving our growth strategy forward.
Reporting to the WAEMU Head of Business Development, you will be responsible for building and cultivating relationships, establishing partnerships, and executing contracts based on the needs of the Product and Operation teams to ensure the continued scaling of Wave’s business in Côte d’Ivoire.
In this role, you'll;
- Forming, negotiating services and managing strategic partnerships (with banks, telcos, bill payment companies, international remittance companies, etc.) that are key for Wave's business to operate.
- Building relationships to enable Wave to grow and operate effectively in Côte d’Ivoire.
- Sourcing business partnerships for Wave's payment products.
- Identifying and liaising with the right person at partners to achieve Wave's needs.
- Supervising communication between partners and Wave teams (Product, Finance, Legal, compliance, Risk, Marketing…)
Key details
- Location: You'll work from our office in Abidjan and may travel to field locations within Cote d'Ivoire
- Work authorization in Cote d'Ivoire.
- Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses to strong performers who have been with the company for more than 6 months.
- We pay 100% of your health care insurance premium cost for yourself and your dependents.
- We support working parents - we offer generous parental leave policies (26 weeks for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers) and subsidised childcare when you return to work.
- We help you live your fullest life now- we subsidise gym memberships and fitness classes.
- Airtime reimbursement.
- Free food and a beautiful office space
Requirements
- At least 5 years' experience in a similar position at a bank, telco, international remittance or fintechs
- Fluent in French and English
- Secondary degree education in Communications, Telecommunications, Finance, International Relations, Business Management, or a comparable field
You might be a good fit if you
- Have a strong network of acquaintances in Cote d'Ivoire from your work in Mobile Money, Banking, Telecom, Insurance or B2B sales.
- Have identified and professionally engaged with strategic partners, seizing upon mutually beneficial opportunities and being relentless in your pursuit.
- Are equally at ease in a boardroom giving a presentation or preparing partner on-boarding documents in French/English.
- Are enthusiastic about Wave's mission and excited to do what needs to be done to achieve it.
- Like team work, but also know how to work well autonomously.
- Have demonstrated tenacity and a willingness to go the distance to get something done.
- Are very detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.
- Have experience working at an international company (nice to have).
Our team
- We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
- We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
- We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
- We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
- We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.
How to apply
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.
Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Wave
Country Growth Operations Lead
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Our mission
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
How you'll help us achieve it
Wave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, with millions of users, growing rapidly year on year. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.
We are looking for a Country Growth Operations Lead who will be based in one of our early-stage countries in West Africa, who will lead our efforts to expand our user base and manage user acquisition strategies in the allocated countries. This role involves leading both user growth operations and agent operations/agent liquidity to help grow a market from an early stage to 1 million monthly active users.
The Country Growth Ops Lead will report to the Head of Scaling Operations and work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and Country General Manager/Director of Operations.
In this role, you'll;
- Drive user growth by optimizing distribution strategies and leading user acquisition initiatives.
- Collaborate with leadership and country teams to ensure alignment and maximize growth opportunities.
- Enhance distribution processes through partnership with product and engineering teams, leveraging technology and data.
- Oversee agent network operations, including acquisition, setup, and liquidity management, to support distribution and meet user demand.
- Build and lead high-performing teams, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
- Manage business and financial KPIs in alignment with overall business objectives.
- Champion Wave's values, leading by example and embedding them within the team culture.
Key Details
- Location: At one of our early-stage countries in Africa, with a focus on West Africa. You must be willing to relocate to the primary growth country for up to one year, with periodic returns home after each trimester.
- Travel: Anticipated travel requirements of 60-80% within a designated, growth-focused market.
- Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula.
- We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
- We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
- Airtime reimbursement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of senior leadership experience in user acquisition/agent operations and liquidity management within mobile money, finance, fintech, telecoms, or tech.
- Language: Bilingual proficiency is mandatory, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills in both English and French.
- Enhanced interpersonal skills in building and maintaining positive relationships, effective communication, active listening, and conflict resolution.
- Proven sales ability with a successful track record in sales, including identifying customer needs and connecting corridors.
You might be a good fit if you
- Are deeply analytical in your approach to marketing and in optimizing the cost of customer acquisition and are metrics-oriented and experienced in leading teams towards KPIs.
- Are proactive, disciplined in your thoughts and actions, and committed to continuous self-improvement and professional development.
- Possess the humility, mission focus, and resolve to do what it takes to achieve growth goals.
- Build strong relationships and bring out the best in people.
- Excel at leadership and enjoy managing diverse and large field ops teams.
- Are a strong communicator and are comfortable defaulting to overreaching when it comes to coordination.
- Think from first principles about how things should work.
- Are excessively detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.
- Are a self-starter and proactive about achieving ambitious targets and willing to go the distance to get something done.
- Adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.
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Our team
- We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
- We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
- We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
- We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
- We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.
How to apply
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.
Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Wave
Our mission
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
How you'll help us achieve it
Wave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, with millions of users, growing rapidly year-on-year. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.
The Product Relations Manager (PRM) owns the product and technical dimension of our external partner integrations. You are the bridge between our partners and our product and engineering teams, responsible for evaluating, shaping, shipping, and maintaining the integrations that power our ecosystem.
In this role, you'll;
- Relentlessly build partner relationships and drive integrations end-to-end, from scoping through development, testing, and production launch to owning every blocker until it ships.
- Evaluate prospective partners' technical readiness and provide clear go/no-go recommendations before contracts are signed.
- Lead technical scoping with partners and translate requirements into specifications engineering can build against.
- Hold partners accountable for delivery and escalate firmly when things stall.
- Monitor integration health post-launch and drive resolution when performance degrades.
- Identify opportunities to expand or deepen existing partnerships.
- Make build-vs-buy and direct-vs-aggregator decisions grounded in data and strategic context.
- Lead cross-functional execution across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Marketing, Support, and Partner Operations to deliver and maintain integrations.
- Use transaction data and operational metrics to inform prioritization and decision-making.
- Contribute to standardizing integration processes and playbooks across markets.
Key details
- You'll be based in our office in Côte d'Ivoire, with travel to partner offices and field locations across our markets
- This is a permanent position with mission-based deployments.
- Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula.
- We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
- We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
- Airtime reimbursement.
- Free food and a beautiful office space.
Requirements
- 4–7 years in product management, technical partnerships, or integration management within fintech, mobile money, digital payments, or telecommunications.
- Technical fluency: comfortable reviewing API docs (REST, SOAP, webhooks), discussing VPN setups, evaluating timeout configurations, and holding your own with engineers and partner technical teams.
- Commercial awareness: you understand how integrations drive transaction volume, revenue, and user value and can evaluate whether one is worth building.
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder integrations involving banks, telcos, utility companies, or government agencies.
- Strong relationship management and negotiation skills ,you can push back on partners, escalate when needed, and keep the relationship intact.
- Excellent communication in both French and English (written and spoken).
- Data-driven decision-making: you use metrics to inform priorities, not just instinct.
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, or a related field.
You might be a good fit if you
- Find stalled integrations frustrating but your instinct is to diagnose the bottleneck and push through, not wait.
- Can switch between reviewing API documentation in the morning and running a partner marketing alignment call in the afternoon.
- Think about integrations in terms of user impact and transaction volume, not just technical completion.
- Are comfortable pushing back on partner executives when their requests don't align with sound product architecture.
- Navigate both French-speaking and English-speaking partner environments with confidence.
- Care about financial inclusion and building products for underserved populations.
Our team
- We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
- We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
- We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
- We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
- We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.
How to apply
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.
Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Wave