Product Manager

Our Mission

We’re making Africa the first cashless continent.

How You’ll Help Us Achieve It

Wave is the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, growing rapidly year on year. We are in the early days of our product roadmap and our impact on people’s everyday lives.

Product Manager 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, 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

In This Role, You’ll

• 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

Key Details

• This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our talent hub countries (UK, Spain, USA, Canada, Kenya and Ghana) or in one of our operating markets in Africa including Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, or Burkina Faso
• Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates
• Remote team members are expected to travel to our operational markets (e.g. Senegal or Côte d’Ivoire) at least once per quarter
• Salary: $142,200 – $213,400 USD, plus equity, depending on level and location
• Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents, and retirement contributions (vary by 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

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 – user research, design, implementation and evaluation
• Fluent English (written and spoken)
• Bonus: Conversational French
• Bonus: Professional experience in a consumer fintech company
• Bonus: Mobile money user in Sub‑Saharan Africa

You Might Be a Good Fit If

• Resonate deeply with our product philosophy and have experience working that way
• Strong communicator who can inspire and lead by influence
• Great at coordinating across teams and excelling at communicating across multiple cultures
• Obsessed with user‑focused product design and user experience
• Take ownership for outcomes and do whatever it takes to make them inevitable
• Strong instincts for asking questions that could move the needle
• Have courage and persistence to replan when feedback or new information arrives
• Always listen with empathy but ruthlessly prioritize based on impact
• Excited about travel and meeting users where they are – most users are in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and other African countries

Wave is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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