Product Manager

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, and help us achieve our mission of making Africa the first cashless continent. As a Product Manager with exceptional data skills, you will play a key role in our rapid growth in new markets. You will partner with various teams to understand customer needs, evaluate product performance, and build strategies for sustainable scaling. This role requires strong analytical thinking, data manipulation skills, and experience in project ownership. You will be responsible for coming up with and testing growth ideas, working with country teams, and using data insights to improve user experience. The position offers remote work flexibility with occasional travel to Africa, competitive salary, and a generous equity package. Wave provides various benefits including subsidized health insurance, parental leave, flexible vacation, and charitable donation matching.

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
• Demonstrated experience owning projects and/or products independently
• Experience working with operations teams
• Experience with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.)
• Strong analytical thinking 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

• French is a bonus
• Have worked in product, with a specific focus on growth
• 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

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