Our mission
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 9 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
Our Agent Quality team plays a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining a compliant and efficient agent network. Collaborating closely with our agent management and compliance teams, we develop robust internal policies, procedures, and practices to ensure agent compliance. Our goal is to ensure that every aspect of our agent network — from training initiatives to branding strategies — adheres seamlessly to both Wave’s standards and regulatory requirements.
By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to drive impactful change, ensuring that our network operates at the highest standards of quality and compliance in the industry.
In this role you’ll;
- Coordinate and lead the unit team to implement the strategy and achieve the planned objectives in agent quality management.
- Identify, plan, and coordinate monthly projects to improve processes and tools within the agent ops team.
- Coordinate policy reviews and process documentation, including key learnings, and help with knowledge transfer sessions with other affiliate country operations.
- Assist with ideas, special programs, project designs, and pilot implementations as may be determined by the business related to your unit.
- Help track agent quality through well-coordinated mystery shopping with your team.
- Manage a team of high-performing Mystery Shoppers, mentoring and coaching them to perform to the best of their ability.
- Devise ways to unearth and track tricks and ways by which agents do not utilize Wave’s allocated funds for the intended purpose, and suggest improvements.
- Develop and formalize control procedures to ensure the quality of agents across the network.
- Work from first principles to understand the user's biggest problems, then figure out how processes and tools should work to solve them.
- Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the unit's performance and impact.
- Support the Head of Operations in identifying and mitigating risks across the network and for our customers.
Key details
- Location: You'll work from our office in Cote d’Ivoire and may travel to field locations.
- Work authorization in Côte d’Ivoire is required.
- This is a permanent position.
- Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula.
- We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
- We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
- Airtime reimbursement.
- Free food and a beautiful office space.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in IT, business administration, finance, criminology or other relevant disciplines.
- 3+ years of experience in operations.
- Experience in managing, coaching, and mentoring a high-performing team.
- Strong proficiency in data analysis and the capability to interpret complex datasets to identify trends, draw actionable insights, and support data-driven decision-making.
- Fluency in English and French.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time to different regions within Cote d’Ivoire.
You might be a good fit if you
- Have strong analytical skills and can assess complex data sets, identify patterns, and draw insightful conclusions.
- Are adept at proposing practical, effective solutions to mitigate identified risks and address emerging risk issues.
- Have a strong track record of collaborating and partnering with cross-functional teams.
- Are excellent at process documentation and effective at knowledge transfer.
- Think about culture and process from the users' perspective.
- Are an adaptable and creative thinker who is willing to iterate and fail quickly.
- Can communicate effectively and often, both in writing and in person, to the point of over-communication.
- Exhibit meticulous attention to detail in all analyses and processes, ensuring accuracy and thoroughness.
- Think from first principles (basic theoretical form) about how things should work.
- Have led a team whose role was to ensure the operational and quality conformity of a network.
Our team
- We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon 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.
- We are on Y Combinator's top 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.
