Job Description: UK Growth
Must have the right to work in the UK or eligibility for a Youth Mobility visa

This role does not require any past experience working in growth/marketing or for a startup. Successful team members have come from the Peace Corps, United Nations, strategy consulting, investment firms and political campaigning.

Key details:

Location: You will be required to travel extensively within the UK, focusing on areas with large African diaspora communities. While not travelling, you can choose to be based anywhere in the UK.
This is an immersive role and requires up to 75% travel and consistent evening and weekend work.
Compensation: £60,000 per year.

Length of position: One-year, with the possibility of extension.

Our mission:

In 2017, one billion immigrants worldwide sent over $600 billion home to family and friends, dwarfing foreign governmental aid. In the age of cheap, quick transfers through services like Paypal and Venmo, these people are trekking to stores to pay fees averaging over 7% for transfers that typically take 24 hours or more.

Wave's mission is to change that by making sending money anywhere in the world easy and affordable. Since 2014, our app has allowed Africans in the US, the UK, and Canada to send money instantly to mobile money wallets in Kenya, Uganda, & Tanzania, saving our users over 70% relative to Western Union and MoneyGram.

We recently launched remittances to Ghana, where we're growing quickly, and are looking to rapidly expand throughout Africa in the next year. That's where you come in...

How you'll help us achieve it:

We plan to open new corridors from the UK to Africa and need someone persistent and creative to join our growth team.

In your first few months, you'll:
Identify the scope of the problems a diaspora community has with respect to sending money by embedding yourself in that community, building trust and asking questions.
Achieve small-scale virality by signing up new users at community events and in social hubs like restaurants and barbershops.
Grow the number of unique senders in a given corridor by 20% week-over-week by using social media, paid media, community influencers, and any other methods you see fit to scale the business.
Build and experiment with user acquisition strategies, analysing results, iterating and optimizing on new user acquisition and conversions.
Throughout the above process, help us build the playbook to make country launches even faster and more successful in future markets.
Requirements:
Native or fluent English.
The right to work in the UK or eligibility for a Youth Mobility visa:  https://www.gov.uk/tier-5-youth-mobility .
You might be a good fit if you:
Would enjoy walking into a room of new people and striking up conversations.
Are comfortable presenting in front of large audiences or being interviewed on live radio.
Simultaneously demonstrate incredible persistence yet are open-minded enough to know when to pivot.
Are intellectually curious, creative in the way you go about tackling problems and embrace failure as a means to spark innovation and your own personal growth.
Possess a bias toward action and testing, and are analytical in your approach.
Quickly absorb new cultural settings and understand how they might impact Wave's strategy.
Can build rapport with diverse stakeholders.
Are persuasive and can convince others to pursue a course of action.
Possess strong habits that will keep you energized as you chase specific growth targets over periods of weeks and months in a largely autonomous role.
BONUS POINTS IF YOU:
Are familiar with the diaspora communities we serve.
Our team:
We are a distributed group of seven engineers, twelve operations team members and over fifty support representatives spread across three continents who are deeply passionate about our mission.
Each quarter, we go on a five-day retreat together. In 2018, we've been to Vancouver, Lisbon, Austin and Burlington.
We play in bands, teach dance classes, run Vipassana retreats, played semi-pro basketball, and built tools to help Doctors Without Borders respond to the Ebola crisis.
We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili and Wolof.
How to apply:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please send our Head of Growth, Taryn McKenzie Mohr (taryn@wave.com), a resume as well as a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role. Please indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

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

Job Email id: taryn(at)wave.com