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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’re hiring a User Growth Regional Lead - a key role driving Wave’s expansion on the ground. You’ll lead and energize distribution activities across your region, with a clear mission: grow and retain our user base. You’ll design and execute strategies to boost active usage across money transfers and bill payments, ensuring Wave becomes the go-to wallet for our users.\nIn this role you’ll;\nManage a team of supervisors/team leads who, in turn, manage field-based distributors. These distributors are responsible for recruiting new users to our financial products. \nIdentify and resolve critical blockers to user growth and maintain active usage of our financial products in assigned areas. \nDevelop strategies to boost the retention of newly acquired users. \nHire, train, and manage distribution team members, and build systems to rapidly scale distribution as needed. \nBuild the roadmap for the distribution team in your area to achieve its quarterly key objectives, including iterating on strategy and growing our customer base day after day within the assigned region of Sierra Leone. \nUse data to inform distribution strategies and monitor your team's performance. \nWork closely with the agency team to align key objectives and operationalize strategies. \nHelp to develop Wave’s distribution strategy by sharing insights and learning from the team’s experience. \nLead by living Wave's values, and ensure they're deeply ingrained within your team.\nKey Details \nLocation: Sierra Leone. Willingness to relocate to other regions if needed.\nWork authorization in Sierra Leone is required. \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 \nFluent in English, Krio and in any additional local language. \nPrevious experience in sales/business development/team management.\n4+ years of relevant work experience, specifically managing field teams or user acquisition teams based in the field. \n2+ years of experience designing strategies for user acquisition for a telecom, payment service provider, FMCG, or financial institution. \n2+ years’ experience managing large teams (50+ people). \nYou might be a good fit if you: \nHave successfully planned and managed customer acquisition strategies for mobile/financial, or FMCG products before.\nCommunicate effectively and often, both in writing and in person, to the point of overcommunication.\nAre detail-oriented and strive for excellence in everything you do.\nAre a self-starter and proactive about achieving ambitious targets.\nEnjoy owning projects - you're autonomous yet know when to escalate problems.\nWilling to go the distance to get something done.\nAdjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.\nAre tech-savvy: comfortable navigating Excel and onboarding to new tools.\nHave a teamwork spirit.\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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