Responsibilities

• Lead the marketing team:\n- Build and mentor a high-performing marketing team focused on achieving ambitious growth targets.

Requirements

• Fluency in English and French.
• At least 10 years of experience in marketing at an FMCG, tech start-up, telco company, or similar.
• Experience developing or executing B2C marketing strategies in Africa.
• Willingness to travel frequently to operating markets.
• Compelling storyteller, in writing and verbally.

Preferred

• Have run a successful functional marketing team that executed well, partnering with other teams.
• Prioritize culture and mission.
• Have led impactful brand strategy for a globally recognized company or a fast-growing startup.
• Are a strong communicator and are comfortable defaulting to overreaching when it comes to coordination.
• Are deeply analytical in your approach to marketing and in optimizing the cost of customer acquisition.
• Excel at managing large cross-cultural teams with rapidly changing priorities.
• Have an extensive network of contacts across media, advertising networks, and vendors.
• Are super detail-oriented and organized.
• Are intellectually curious, creative in the way you go about tackling problems, and embrace failure as a means to spark innovation and growth.
• Demonstrate tenacity and a willingness to go the distance to get something done.

Benefits

• Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents, and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidised fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days per year.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
• Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates.