General Manager, Growth

📌 ### 📌 As General Manager, Growth, you'll be responsible for driving Wave’s customer growth for our core mobile money business in our newer, growth stage markets. You'll work closely with the CEO to set growth strategy, lead local teams, and ensure we’re hitting ambitious growth goals. This is a highly cross-functional role. You'll work closely with operations, product, marketing and other teams to iterate on strategies to increase our growth rates in already fast growing markets. You will need to combine strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, and strong execution to unlock the next stage of growth in our newer markets. As our General Manager of Growth, you'll: Create and execute plans to grow our core mobile money business in newer markets. This will mainly focus on operational excellence with in-country teams, but also involve coordination with product, finance & marketing. Deeply understand your users: gather insights, test hypotheses, and turn learnings into scalable growth tactics and then execute on those lessons at a country level. Use data and experimentation to test, learn, and scale growth initiatives quickly. Spend time in Wave markets visiting users and in-country teams. Work closely with those teams to drive operational excellence on scaling strategies. Initiate creative local marketing strategies and user growth campaigns. Manage a rapidly growing team across multiple markets and continue to build the team out by attracting the best talent across all functions. Manage both business KPIs and the P&Ls for growing markets in close coordination with the CEO. Requirements: At least 10 years of proven success leading a team that has scaled a consumer product in an emerging market. Strong analytical skills: comfortable with data, metrics, and experimentation. Exceptional leadership and people management skills: you’ve built and grown high-performing teams. Excellent communication skills in English. French is a strong plus. Passion for Wave’s mission of financial inclusion and the grit to thrive in fast-changing environments.