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 aiming to make Africa the first cashless continent. They launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now have millions of users across six countries.
Responsibilities
- - Own a product or feature holistically, including any internal tooling needed to support it
- - Relentlessly gather feedback to deeply understand the problem space and our users' needs
- - Work from first principles to understand the user's biggest problems and then figure out how the product should work to solve those problems
- - Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the product's growth and impact
- - Directly manage a small product team to get the improvements into users' hands in rapid iteration cycles
Required Skills
- - Are a strong communicator that can inspire and lead by influence
- - Are great at coordinating across teams and excel at communicating across multiple cultures
- - Have a good nose for user-focused product design and obsess over user experience
- - Take ownership for outcomes and do whatever you can to make them close to inevitable
- - Have strong instincts for asking questions that could move the needle
- - Have the courage and persistence to replan when feedback or new information arrives
- - Always listen with empathy but ruthlessly prioritise based on impact
- - Are excited about travel and meet users where they are
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 30-40 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!