Wave
Senior Program Manager
Wave
$178k
Worldwide (Remote)

Senior Program Manager

Overview

Wave is making Africa the first cashless continent by building financial services that are no-fee, instantly available, and accepted everywhere.

Job Description

Wave is a company focused on providing radically affordable financial services in Africa. They launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now have millions of users across six countries. Wave aims to make Africa the first cashless continent.

Responsibilities

  • - Manage cross-functional projects that improve the employee journey at Wave
  • - Work with the leadership team to identify problems and ensure they get solved
  • - End-to-end ownership of people projects, from first draft to launch
  • - Work with senior leaders to identify pain points in employee experience
  • - Build and manage teams as Wave scales People Operations and Customer Support
  • - Run and improve People team processes like OKRs and internal communications
  • - Collaborate with data analysts to build dashboards covering support and people topics

Required Skills

  • - 8+ years of product, project or program management experience
  • - 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
  • - French is strongly preferred, but not required
  • - Comfort travelling to West Africa at least twice a year

Benefits

  • - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
  • - Retirement contributions
  • - 6 months of fully paid parental leave
  • - 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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