New Markets Growth Product Manager

Overview

Wave is making Africa the first cashless continent by providing financial services that are no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere.

Job Description

Wave is a financial services company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent. They launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now have millions of users across six countries. Wave is looking for a Product Manager with exceptional data skills to help grow in new markets.

Responsibilities

  • - Come up with ideas to help us grow in new markets
  • - Test these ideas and work with country teams to try them out
  • - Write your own queries to see what worked
  • - Work closely with operations and product teams
  • - Look at customer and merchant data, create charts or visuals
  • - Use insights to help improve the experience for users and the business
  • - Spot blockers and work with others to fix them
  • - Try new approaches, gather feedback, and keep improving
  • - Monitor performance metrics and market feedback to assess progress and iterate rapidly
  • - Partner with engineers, analysts, and market operators to scope and prioritize experiments or feature launches

Required Skills

  • - 5+ years experience as a Product Manager, Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Product Operations Analyst or similar
  • - Strong SQL skills and expertise in manipulating and analyzing data
  • - Demonstrated experience owning projects and/or products independently
  • - Experience working with operations teams
  • - Experience with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.)
  • - Strong analytical thinking and experience extracting and communicating insights to non-technical stakeholders
  • - Fluency in English. French is a bonus

Benefits

  • - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions
  • - 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

About the company

We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!


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