{"id":226416,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wave-people-partner","title":"People Partner","company":{"id":65,"name":"Wave","domain":"wave.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/wave","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.4,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":64,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":79000,"max_usd":180000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1904},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Stripe","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-11-27T07:01:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T22:05:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":308,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":307},"description":"Our mission\nWe're making Africa the first cashless continent.\nIn 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.\nWe'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.\nOur goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...\nHow you'll help us achieve it\nWe are seeking a Strategic People Partner who combines curiosity, strategic thinking, and hands-on HR delivery. This Partner will help us shape our people's experience, talent initiatives, and ultimately own an org/s as a trusted People Partner.\nYou’ll partner across teams to strengthen how we grow, support, and develop Wavers. Your work will touch key areas such as: performance coaching, development, talent management, organizational design and employee experience, while also supporting talent programs.\nIn this role, you'll;\nSupport Organizational Design & Effectiveness\nPartner with business leads to assess and evolve team structures that enable collaboration and effectiveness.\nFacilitate organization health reviews, using people analytics to identify strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities.\nSupport managers on change management, team design, and culture alignment as their orgs scale.\nContribute to cross-functional projects that enhance employee experience, performance, and engagement.\nLearning & Development Collaborations\nPartner with the L&D team and business leads to identify development needs and learning priorities across functions.\nSupport individual development planning and ensure learning insights are embedded into performance and career frameworks.\nTrack participation, to inform continuous improvement of learning initiatives.\nTalent Management & Growth\nPartner with leaders to map career paths and growth frameworks across their teams.\nSupport performance review cycles, calibrations, and feedback conversations that drive meaningful development.\nBuild visibility into succession planning, and emerging talent across Wave.\nCollaborate with the Talent team, to ensure a consistent strong pipeline of talent during hiring processes.\nGrow our Talent & Development Programs\nManage Wave’s internship and Support rotation programs: canvassing roles, coordinating interviews, onboarding, and successful integration.\nPartner with leads to identify high-performing participants for continued development and full-time conversion opportunities.\nStrengthen Employer Branding \nCollaborate with Marketing and Comms to capture authentic stories that reflect Wave’s culture and employee experiences.\nContribute to content for social channels, events, and recruiting campaigns showcasing Wave as a great place to grow.\n\nKey details\nLocation: You'll work from one of our operating countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia and DRC).\nWork authorization in one of the above countries. \nThis is a permanent position.\nOur salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. \nWe offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.\nWe 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.\nAirtime reimbursement.\nFree food and a beautiful office space.\nRequirements\n5-8 years of experience in Recruiting, Learning & Development, Talent management, or HRBP in a high-growth environment\nA degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or equivalent.\nFrench and English proficiency. \nDemonstrated background in talent and leadership management, as well as a proven ability to attract and retain outstanding talent and motivate high-performing teams.\nHands-on operational experience in managing employee relations. \nAbility to work with a variety of organizational leaders, to build consensus around HR strategy and tactics.\nExcellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills in dealing with sensitive employee issues and managing cultural differences.\nYou might be a good fit if you\nAre strategically minded but operationally hands-on. You can design frameworks and also execute them.\nHave strong coaching, facilitation, and communication skills, with a passion for helping others grow.\nAre analytical and data-informed, using insights to guide decisions and measure impact.\nExcel at building relationships and trust, partnering across multiple levels and cultures.\nAre curious, proactive, and adaptable; you thrive in a fast-moving, mission-driven environment.\nOur team\nWe 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.\nWe're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.\nWe foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.\nWe 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.\nWe are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.\nHow to apply\nFill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.\nWe review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.\nWave is an equal-opportunity employer. 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