Product Manager

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, as a Growth Analytics Product Manager. You will play a crucial role in driving growth in new markets by leveraging your exceptional data skills. This position requires a blend of hands-on data analytics, product management, and market strategy expertise. You will collaborate with various teams to understand customer needs, evaluate performance, and develop sustainable scaling strategies. The role demands strong independent data analysis capabilities, including data cleaning, analysis, and interpretation. You will be responsible for generating growth ideas, testing them, and monitoring performance metrics. Remote work is available within 2 hours of GMT, with travel to Africa once a year and a yearly stipend.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a Product Manager, Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Product Operations Analyst or similar
• Strong SQL skills and expertise in manipulating and analyzing data
• Experience operating in emerging markets is required. You’ve spent time in an operating role (not just advisory) in an emerging market, with hands-on exposure to scaling products, operations, or growth initiatives in that environment
• Demonstrated experience owning projects and/or products independently
• Experience working with operational teams
• Experience with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.)
• Strong hands-on data analytics and experience extracting and communicating insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Come up with ideas to help us grow in new markets. You’ll test these ideas, work with country teams to try them out, and write your own queries to see what worked
• Work closely with our operations and product teams. You’ll look at customer and merchant data, create charts or visuals, and use the insights to help improve the experience for users and the business
• Spot blockers and work with others to fix them. You’ll try new approaches, gather feedback, and keep improving
• Monitor performance metrics and market feedback to assess progress and iterate rapidly
• Partner with engineers, analysts, and market operators to scope and prioritize experiments or feature launches

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in product, with a specific focus on growth
• Have hand-on data analytics experience, dealing with large, messy datasets without solely relying on the data team
• Have experience launching or scaling products in emerging markets within a fintech, mobile money, or mission-driven startup
• Are experienced in running growth focussed a/b tests
• Are comfortable with extensive travel
• Are comfortable navigating the challenges of growth in complex, resource-constrained environments

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching