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Our mission We're making Africa the first cashless continent. In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash. We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast. Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in... How you'll help us achieve it We're looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our team. You'll work on projects across the business, from building credit scoring models and improving fraud detection to optimizing field visit schedules and designing A/B tests for targeted user promotions. In this role, you'll partner with product managers and business leaders to understand the problems they're trying to solve and find practical ways to use data to improve outcomes. Our ideal candidate is product-minded, scrappy and thinks about data in terms of intuitive user behaviours rather than just inputs to a black box model. In this role you'll; • 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. Key details • This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our talent hub countries (US, UK, Spain, Kenya and Ghana) or in one of our operating markets in Africa including Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, or Burkina Faso. • Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support coworking meetups with teammates. • Remote team members are expected to travel to our operational markets (e.g. Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire) at least once a year. Exceptions apply, but we've found this key to understanding our users and product. • Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your level and location, we offer a salary between $130,600 - $236,200 USD, plus a generous equity package. • Major benefits: • Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country). • 6 months of 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. Requirements • Education and Experience • 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. • 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning or technical analytics roles. • Technical Skills • Deep expertise with Python, SQL, and data visualization tools • Experience in one or more of the following: machine learning, causal inference, statistical modeling,

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