We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across six countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
How you’ll help us achieve it
Wave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal, with over 7 million users. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join our product team.
In this role, you’ll;
- Be embedded in a product team where you will work closely with a product manager, engineers and in some cases operational teams.
- Derive insights from customer and merchant data, visualize and communicate these in ways that improve user and business outcomes.
- Help find, test and implement process improvements to make our operations more efficient.
- Navigate large data sets to identify growth drivers and generate testable hypotheses.
- Design, develop, implement and analyze experiments related to product features and operational processes.
- Take full ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design to communicating findings to stakeholders.
Key Details
- You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -5 and +2) with reliable Internet access.
- Wave covers travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa, as well as a yearly stipend of $800 to meet with coworkers.
- Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your level and location, we offer a salary of up to $134,400 USD (paid in your local currency equivalent), plus a generous equity package.
- We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to strong performers who have been with the company for more than six months.
- Major 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 30-40 days per year.
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
Requirements
- Education and Experience
- 5+ years experience as a product analyst, data analyst, data scientist or similar role.
- Strong demonstrable experience in discovery, hypothesis testing and inference over fuzzy problems and large data sets.
- Experience running experiments with a preference for candidates who have run both digital and field experiments.
- Experience working with data visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Looker).
- Preference for candidates who have worked on growth teams or functions that have gone through a strong growth phase.
- Fluency in English. French is a plus.
- Technical skills
- Strong SQL skills with expertise in querying, manipulating and analyzing data.
- Proficiency in statistical analysis, data cleaning and preparation and data manipulation in Python.
- Familiarity with data visualization libraries.
You might be a good fit if you
- You have worked on a cross-functional product team.
- You are able to work fairly independently. This role is a senior role in one of the fastest-growing parts of Wave. An expectation is that you’ll be able to lead and run with a problem (with the support of the broader team).
- You can communicate clearly with your colleagues in different roles (PM, engineers, operational leads, senior management).
- You have run a bunch of experiments and know what to do when things do not go as planned.
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation.
- We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, and Uganda, plus remote team members spread across the world.
- We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
- We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
- We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
- In 2023, we were on Y Combinator's top 50 companies by revenue.
How to apply
Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.
We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.
Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
What We Do
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote D'Ivoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast.
Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent
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