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About the role
This role exists to solve that. You'll be a deployable recruiter on our expansion recruiting team, sent into new markets ahead of launch to do the groundwork that can't be done remotely, and to stay long enough to hand a working hiring engine to the permanent team. We've proven this model works. What we need now is someone who can do it in francophone markets. Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years owning end-to-end recruitment
- 3+ years of in-house recruiting in Africa, in high-growth or scaling environments
- Full professional fluency in French and English, including negotiating comp and handling difficult conversations in both
- Experience recruiting in a market you did not previously know, where you had to build the map yourself rather than work an existing network
- Strong experience hiring for both field and office roles
- Right to work in one of our operating countries, and a passport and personal circumstances that allow you to move across the continent on short notice
More about this role
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...
Wave is entering new markets every year and when we launch, the first hires have to be right, and they have to happen before there is an office, an HR team, a salary benchmark, or a single person on the ground who knows the...
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