Product Manager
Overview
Wave is making Africa the first cashless continent by providing financial services that are instantly available and accepted everywhere.
Job Description
Wave is a financial services company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent. They provide services with no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. Wave launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now has millions of users across six countries.
Responsibilities
- - Lead cross-functional teams with full ownership of their product domain
- - Define product goals, metrics, and roadmaps based on user needs and mission impact
- - Drive user research, especially in-market across Africa user understanding with both in-person research and data-driven perspectives
- - Write clear, compelling design docs and facilitate async, fast-moving decision-making
- - Over-communicate context, priorities, and decisions to ensure team alignment
- - Adjust priorities quickly based on feedback, experiments, or new learnings
- - Solve problems holistically, whether through product features, ops tooling or process changes
- - Champion our users and hold us accountable to meeting them where they are
Required Skills
- - 5+ years of experience in product management, ideally in high-ownership fast-paced environments like scale-ups or startups
- - Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle, such as user research, design, implementation and evaluation
- - Speak fluent English
- - Bonus if you speak at least conversational French
- - Have professional experience in a consumer fintech company
- - Are a mobile money user in Sub-Saharan Africa
Benefits
- - Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents, and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
- - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidised fertility assistance
- - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days per year
- - $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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