Since 2014, Sendwave has allowed diaspora members from across Africa and Asia to send money abroad fast, saving our users over 70% relative to Western Union and MoneyGram. We’re coming off our biggest year ever, where we enabled over 30 million transactions on behalf of the diaspora communities we serve.

Despite the amazing growth, we’re still less than 1% of the global remittance market. If we want to make sending money anywhere in the world as easy and affordable as sending a text, we’ve got to scale even faster. That’s where you come in.

How you’ll help us achieve it

  • Work with our Market Launchers and Product Marketers to identify high-reach media and online opportunities to ensure we scale quickly and efficiently as we open new corridors and add new services.
  • Work creatively and diligently to source, negotiate, manage, and act as key contact for all aspects of partnerships with public figures and media channels focused specifically on the communities we target. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Represent Sendwave on large community events for the public, as well as on TV and Radio
  • Build and test new strategies aimed at scaling our growth efforts. Past activities include partnering with other brands to accelerate growth, developing and managing phone campaigns and producing educational content for social media

In the first months you’ll…

  • Play a key role in accelerating the growth of 1-2 new sending corridors (for example: US to Philippines)
  • Act as the primary owner of all media partnerships in at least one mature sending corridor (for example: US to Nigeria)

Key details

  • This role requires up to 15% work on evenings and weekends for attending events and meetings with partners in different timezones.
  • Compensation: USA: L2: $96,000 | L3: $116,000
  • Location: Our company is 100% remote.
  • Major benefits:
    • Subsidized health insurance and retirement contribution matching (both vary from country-to-country)
    • 26 weeks fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
    • Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
    • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

Requirements

  • Native or fluent English
  • Work authorisation: You must possess the right to work in the US
  • Three+ years of work experience in sales or project management in a fast-paced working environment

You might be a good fit if you

  • Navigate networks confidently. You know how to rapidly find and engage with highly connected people to help you access large media partners
  • Build rapport easily with different types of people and maintain great relationships over time
  • Present a brand with confidence, answer hard questions, and generate positive sentiment
  • Negotiate competently and can persuade potential partners to try unique long-term partnership models
  • Enjoy owning and managing several projects simultaneously. In this role you would navigate and reprioritise between different types of activities including: research, strategy, negotiation, and serving as Sendwave’s ‘spokesperson’.
  • Have proven experience in project management of different sizes: from ideation to execution to collecting and analysing learnings and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Quickly absorb new cultural settings and understand how they might impact Sendwave’s strategy

Bonus points if you

  • Are fluent in another language, example Haitian Creole, French or Spanish
  • Are familiar with some of the diaspora communities we serve
  • Have experience in production/ PR / sales / business development
  • Have experience meeting aggressive numeric targets

Feel like a fit?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume & cover letter describing your interest in Sendwave below. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

We accept you, as you are:

  • Our team of over 400 employees is fully distributed across the world— working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world.
  • We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, play in bands, teach yoga, moonlight as YouTube influencers, are former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
  • We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, and Wolof.
  • We recently joined forces with WorldRemit, another remittance company, and we’re excited about the ways we can continue to provide the best service to our users.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ candidate. Sendwave is a place where everyone can thrive. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to wake up every day.