General Manager, Anglophone Africa

Taptap Send; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London is seeking a Head of Anglophone Africa to manage growth and partnerships in the region. This role involves strategic team leadership, customer acquisition, and ensuring product quality for a thriving user base. Candidates should possess substantial experience in fast-paced environments, strong analytical skills, and a passion for optimizing user experience. Opportunities for travel and professional impact are significant, within a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• 7 to 15 years experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Ability to travel internationally as needed.
• Preference for London or Dubai based.

Responsibilities

• Establish a vision, strategy, and execution plan for growth.
• Lead the team to execute collaboratively.
• Manage customer acquisition and retention strategies.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

User experience optimization

Team development

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's or Advanced degree

Tools

Excel

Google Suite

SQL

Python

R

Job description

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Overview

Our Mission Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

The Team Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders — also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO). Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline). Driven by mission, guided by values. Team is global with >30 languages from 25 countries.

About Us Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or a TechCrunch article.

Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. This has been especially revolutionary for emerging markets where many populations previously lacked access to digital finance. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee, saving money in the process. We aim to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

Our Investors Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels.

The role

As the Head of Anglophone Africa, your role will be to develop and scale Taptap Send's supply side partnerships in Anglophone Africa and grow our userbase. You will manage every aspect of growth in said markets: customer acquisition and retention strategy, pricing, user research, product quality, customer experience, team development and coaching. You will have an acute "own it" mindset, equally obsessed with the experience of individual users as with iterating and optimizing scalable growth tactics and processes.

You will have P&L ownership, delivering the growth and profitability targets for the Anglophone Africa market. You will seek to establish TTS as the leading product/service for sending remittances to Anglophone Africa, while being the "face" of Anglophone Africa both internally and externally. Reporting directly into our Growth Director for Africa, and building and leading a team of growth managers on the ground in sending markets, the role offers the chance to join an early-stage, high growth startup and to have a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Establish a vision, strategy and execution plan for launching and scaling sending and receiving markets across Anglophone Africa.
• Lead the team on the ground to execute within collaboratively aligned timelines.
• Manage every aspect of growth across the sending countries: customer acquisition and retention strategy, pricing, user research, product quality, customer experience, team development and coaching.
• Report to the executive leadership team on progress, insights and needs, leveraging operational prowess with a data-driven test-and-learn mindset.
• Think creatively on ways to unlock growth, improve profitability and increase brand awareness.
• Hire, inspire, develop and retain top, diverse talent.
• Collaborate closely with both internal and external stakeholders including the Customer Service, Finance, Tech, Legal, Financial Crime, Compliance, People Ops and more.
• Build trust-based relationships with diaspora communities and commercial partners in the Anglophone West Africa region to increase brand awareness and unlock growth and unit economics improvements.
• Monitor, understand, and interpret specific growth, operational, and financial metrics to improve execution.
• Recommend improvements to product experience based on market, competitor and customer insights and feedback.

Requirements

• Preference for London or Dubai based
• Ability to travel internationally periodically and ad-hoc to meet customers, partners and team members
• Exceptional knowledge and networks in the Anglophone West Africa diaspora
• Advanced stakeholder management capability
• Experience building, developing, managing and leading teams
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions. Familiarity with pulling and presenting insights from data using Excel / Google Suite. SQL, Python, R is a plus
• 7 to 15 years experience in a fast paced and high growth environment such as startups, operations, consulting, finance, or similar
• An acute "own it" mindset, equally obsessed with the experience of individual users as with iterating and optimizing scalable growth tactics and processes
• Bachelors or Advanced degree
• Fluency in English and other languages are beneficial e.g. Twi, Fante, Yoruba

Taptap Values

• Impact first
• Team next
• Accept reality
• Propose solutions
• Win with grit
• Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
• Love the particular
• Own it
• Create positive energy
• Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.