Product Relations Manager

Requirements: • 4–7 years in product management, technical partnerships, or integration management within fintech, mobile money, digital payments, or telecommunications. • Technical fluency: comfortable reviewing API docs (REST, SOAP, webhooks), discussing VPN setups, evaluating timeout configurations, and holding your own with engineers and partner technical teams. • Commercial awareness: you understand how integrations drive transaction volume, revenue, and user value and can evaluate whether one is worth building. • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder integrations involving banks, telcos, utility companies, or government agencies. • Strong relationship management and negotiation skills ,you can push back on partners, escalate when needed, and keep the relationship intact. • Excellent communication in both French and English (written and spoken). • Data-driven decision-making: you use metrics to inform priorities, not just instinct. • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, or a related field. • You might be a good fit if you • Find stalled integrations frustrating but your instinct is to diagnose the bottleneck and push through, not wait. • Can switch between reviewing API documentation in the morning and running a partner marketing alignment call in the afternoon. • Think about integrations in terms of user impact and transaction volume, not just technical completion. • Are comfortable pushing back on partner executives when their requests don't align with sound product architecture. • Navigate both French-speaking and English-speaking partner environments with confidence. • Care about financial inclusion and building products for underserved populations. • 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.