Product Relations Manager
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa. Its offerings include money transfers, deposits and withdrawals, bill payments, airtime purchases, merchant payments, collections, bulk payments, and checkout APIs.
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About Wave Mobile Money Inc.
Wave Mobile Money builds and operates a mobile financial network intended to help make Africa the first cashless continent. Its consumer services enable users to deposit and withdraw money, send funds, pay bills, buy airtime, and access customer support through mobile applications and agents. Wave Business provides bulk payments, in-person merchant payments, cash collection tools, a business portal, and checkout APIs. The company serves consumers, agents, merchants, businesses, and other clients across multiple African countries.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the product and technical aspects of external partner integrations, evaluate partner readiness, shape and launch integrations, translate requirements into engineering specifications, monitor integration health, resolve blockers, and coordinate execution across business and technical functions.
Requirements
- 4–7 years of experience in product management, technical partnerships or integration management
- Experience in fintech, mobile money, digital payments or telecommunications
- Technical fluency with REST, SOAP, webhooks, VPN setups and timeout configurations
- Commercial awareness
- Experience managing integrations with banks, telecommunications companies, utility companies or government agencies
- Relationship management and negotiation skills
- Fluency in French and English
- Data-driven decision-making
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics or a related field
Responsibilities
- Build partner relationships
- Drive integrations from scoping through production launch
- Evaluate partners' technical readiness
- Provide go or no-go recommendations
- Lead technical scoping and translate requirements into specifications
- Hold partners accountable for delivery
- Monitor integration health
- Resolve performance issues
- Expand existing partnerships
- Make build-versus-buy and direct-versus-aggregator decisions
- Lead cross-functional integration execution
- Use transaction data and operational metrics for prioritisation
- Standardise integration processes and playbooks
Benefits
- Health insurance for the employee and dependents
- 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers
- 4 weeks of parental leave for fathers
- Subsidized child care
- Airtime reimbursement
- Free food