Career Opportunity at InVenture

Expected Experience:

• 7+ years leading medium-to-large teams.
• 5+ years top-level business development and partnerships experience, specifically in mobile network operators, mobile money operators, and financial services sectors.
• 5+ years leading consumer financial service products, preferably mobile products.
• Extended work experience in Nigeria and other West African countries.
• 5+ years experience working within international teams.
• Deep network of contacts amongst mobile money operators, mobile network operators, banks, eCommerce companies and other Internet and financial service providers
• Comfort overseeing technical, marketing, customer service and operations teams.
• Extensive experience recruiting, hiring, and mentoring staff to build exceptional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, target and land top-level business development partnerships.
• Identify, evaluate and lead strategic and tactical business opportunities. Work with senior staff to revise and expand product and services.
• Lead InVenture's in country engineers, operations, and customer service teams.
• Report directly to CEO of parent company and work with global company leads.
• Identify and deploy offline marketing campaigns.
• Oversee Customer Research, Customer Experience and Borrower Fulfillment.

Needed Qualities:

• Well regarded for both always getting results and well respected by all coworkers and partners.
• The confidence that comes from a long track-record of business growth and success.
• A casual and formal over-communicator, both in person and in writing.
• Natural mentor and team leader.
• Fluent in English. Familiar with Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and other regional dialects a plus.