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, you will lead cross-functional teams, define product goals and roadmaps, conduct user research across Africa, and write compelling design documents. You will own a product or feature holistically, gather user feedback, prioritize problems, manage a small product team, and ensure rapid iteration cycles. This fully remote role requires 5+ years of product management experience in fast-paced environments and fluency in English. Wave offers competitive salaries, a generous equity package, and various benefits including subsidized health insurance, parental leave, flexible vacation, and charitable donation matching. The role requires travel to operational markets in Africa at least once per quarter.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management, ideally in high-ownership fast-paced environments like scale-ups or startups
• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle, such as user research, design, implementation and evaluation
• Speak fluent English

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams with full ownership of their product domain
• Define product goals, metrics, and roadmaps based on user needs and mission impact
• Drive user research, especially in-market across Africa user understanding with both in-person research and data-driven perspectives
• Write clear, compelling design docs and facilitate async, fast-moving decision-making
• Over-communicate context, priorities, and decisions to ensure team alignment
• Adjust priorities quickly based on feedback, experiments, or new learnings
• Solve problems holistically, whether through product features, ops tooling or process changes
• Champion our users and hold us accountable to meeting them where they are
• Own a product or feature holistically, including any internal tooling needed to support it
• Relentlessly gather feedback (by talking to users and looking at data) to deeply understand the problem space and our users' needs
• Work from first principles to understand the user's biggest problems and then figure out how the product should work to solve those problems
• Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the product's growth and impact
• Directly manage a small product team to get the improvements into users' hands in rapid iteration cycles, gather more feedback and reach more people

Preferred Qualifications

• Speak at least conversational French
• Have professional experience in a consumer fintech company
• Are a mobile money user in Sub-Saharan Africa

Benefits

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