Data Scientist, Wave
$114.2-134.4k
+ Equity.
More information about location
Financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money
Be an early applicant
Financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$114.2-134.4k
+ Equity.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist with experience in ad hoc data analysis, optimization, and machine learning to join our team
- We are looking for a data scientist who is product-minded, scrappy and thinks about data in terms of intuitive user behaviours rather than just inputs to a black box model
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. A Master's or PhD is a plus
- 4+ years experience in applied data science or similar experience
- Demonstrated experience with product A/B tests, optimization, and exploratory data analysis
- Experience collaborating with and supporting cross-functional teams on data analysis and execution of experiments
- Strong knowledge of probability and statistics
- Strong SQL skills with expertise in querying, manipulating and analyzing data
- Strong Python skills with expertise in data cleaning, manipulation, and statistical analysis (strong R skills are also acceptable and a willingness to quickly adapt to Python)
- Proficiency in applying machine learning methods to solve business problems
- Familiarity with data visualization libraries
- Fluency in English. French is a plus
- Are a self-starter who excels at exploring problems and collaborating closely with product and operations teams
- Like to ask questions of data and just have to find out the answers
- Prefer solving data problems using exploratory data analysis and statistics over applying black-box models
- Have excellent focus, prioritizing your research and work using an iterative approach (you know when a project is good enough to stop, and you rarely get lost in details)
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data
What the job involves
- You will work on a wide range of data analysis projects across teams, such as supporting call volume forecasting, optimizing operation field visit schedules to maximize impact, targeted promos for users, improving our fraud models, and more!
- This role is unique in a way that you will collaborate with a wide range of product managers and business leaders to understand their problems and use data science to optimize their operations
- Be embedded closely with our product and operations teams
- Generate insights using customer, merchant and internal data using statistical modelling, data visualization, and machine learning
- Design, implement and analyze optimizations for our internal operations, user promos, and agent network to help teams scale and reduce costs
- Build data-driven heuristics and machine-learning models to improve user and business outcomes
- Take ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design to communicating findings to stakeholders
Application process
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals
Our take
Founders Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 204 to allow remittances between North America, Europe, and select African and Asian nations,. The venture gained traction and was acquired by WorldRemit in 2020 for $500M in cash and stock. During this journey, Durbin and Quirk initiated the development of Wve, a user-friendly mobile money service that champions simplicity and eliminates account fees.
Africa grapples with a lack of accessible and economical financial services, leaving around 57% of its population unbanked due to exorbitant charges, inconvenient branches, and limited card usage. Wave addresses this gap with innovative technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible to everyone via their mobile. The impact has been substantial; in 2021, a GSMA report indicated 562M registered mobile money accounts in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at US$495B.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and Gambia. Future plans involve expanding to regulation-friendly countries like Uganda and channelling investments to enhance product development, business operations, and engineering efforts.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company values
- We’re egolessly mission driven
- We focus ruthlessly on the most important thing
- We’re embarrassingly honest to stay aligned and move quickly
- We don’t wait – we live our fullest lives now
- We maximize our rate of learning
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
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Leadership
Drew Durbin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).
Lincoln Quirk
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).
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