BitPesa (www.bitpesa.co) is a cutting-edge online payment platform that leverages Blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa. BitPesa’s clients range from African businesses and multinational companies paying suppliers as far as China and Dubai to international remittance companies using our API services for white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Ghana, and the DRC.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Growth Hacking Associate – Partnership
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Description
- As a Growth Hacking Associate within the Partnership team, your role is to grow and qualify leads in the most scalable, efficient and cost-effective way.
- Within the Partnership team, we focus on bringing in partners that can distribute BitPesa products – BFX API & Over-the-counter Treasury Solutions designed for enterprises to buy/sell FX easier, cheaper and faster.
Key Responsibilities
- Find/Execute out-of-the-box solutions to generate/qualify large numbers of inbound and outbound leads
- Conduct market research to help partnership team qualify and quantify revenue potential for leads generated
- Develop and improve partnership acquisition assets (pitch decks, one-pagers etc.) in coordination with marketing team
- Create a system/workflow integrated with Pipedrive to measure performance and improve efficiency
Requirements
- Previous experiences in a similar role for a B2B business model with a proven track record of revenue contribution; preferably in financial services / FinTech / payment in frontier markets
- Extremely organized, result-oriented, data-driven and diligent, fast-learner with attention to details
- A passion for what BitPesa is building for the world
- A big plus if you know how to make beautiful and presentable marketing collateral.
Benefits
- Be part of an international, ambitious and successful team
- Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry
- Diverse career growth opportunities
- Base salary and a high KPI-driven bonus.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Account Associate
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- As the Account Associate, you will be responsible for handling your own portfolio of key client accounts.
- Your role will entail maintaining and strengthening new and existing client relationships by providing excellent ongoing day to day account management and customer service.
- Account Management is a critical point of contact for our customers who have trade requests, questions, issues or feedback, so we’re looking for an empathetic young leader, with the relevant experience and skills, to help build the vision for excellent standards in client relationship management, and to help instill a customer-centric culture at BitPesa.
- This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital FX company to the next level.
Responsibilities
- Manage your Account Portfolio with a customer-centric approach by setting high standards for client support, relationship management and customer happiness
- Flawlessly execute trade requests from clients in the Account Portfolio within defined SLAs
- Effectively support the Sales team by collaborating with other key internal stakeholders – Finance/Trading, Customer Support, Compliance and Product
- Support and improve the entire customer journey from onboarding to post-trade execution
- Handle any issues reported by clients in the Account Portfolio and escalate, when necessary
- Proactive outreach to clients to ensure there is client retention, and satisfaction
- Assist in continuously deepening existing client relationships by understanding and matching their needs with BitPesa’s evolving product offering
- Adhere to and follow the SOPs and compliance standards set internally
- Help identify and fix inefficiencies in current workflows and processes
- Act as an effective liaison between BitPesa and the clients in the Account Portfolio, given you are the daily point of contact for the clients
- Display a high level of emotional intelligence and step into a leadership role when required
Activities
Trade Execution:
- Work with Trading to obtain and allocate daily liquidity for clients
- Work with Payments team to confirm payments with strong attention to detail
- Provide payment instruction to the Payments Team or Trading Team to make payments
- Email proof of payment (POP) to customer
Issue Resolution:
- Work with the Payments Team, Support Team, and Tech Team to resolve any transaction issues within defined SLAs
- Keep the client informed of the status of the resolution by providing regular updates
Compliance:
- Ensure all BitPesa customers are properly registered and compliant by working with the Compliance team
Sales:
- Upsell and cross-sell to clients by truly understanding and matching their needs to BitPesa’s evolving product offering
- Conduct regular research on existing client segments (based on data and customer trends) across all operational regions
KPIs
- Timely follow up within defined SLAs with clients and internal stakeholders
- Total Volume generated from Existing Clients
- Total Revenue generated through upsells and cross-sells
Requirements
- Young professional who is ambitious and eager to learn
- Ability to understand and help promote the customer-centric vision at BitPesa
- Quantitative individual with a love for numbers and data analysis
- Excellent interpersonal, communications, public speaking, presentation, and listening skills
- Creative problem solver and sound decision-maker with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- An excellent team player, working towards collective team and company goals
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask, when required
- Advanced Microsoft Office and Google Suite Tools skills along with the willingness and ability to become familiar with Company-specific sales tools/software
- Passionate about our mission to redefine how businesses make payments to, from and within Africa
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Working with a diverse team
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Customer Service Associate
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- As the Customer Service Associate, you will be at the forefront of servicing our clients. Your role will entail maintaining and strengthening new and existing client relationships by providing excellent customer service.
- Customer Service is a critical point of contact for our customers who have questions, issues or feedback, so we’re looking for an empathetic young leader, with the relevant experience and skills, to help build the vision for excellent standards in client relationship management, and to help instill a customer-centric culture at BitPesa.
- This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.
Responsibilities
- Help promote a customer-centric approach at the Company by setting high standards for client support, relationship management and customer happiness
- Effectively collaborate with key internal stakeholders – Sales, Finance/Trading, Customer Support, Compliance and Product
- Support and improve the entire customer journey from onboarding to post-trade execution
- Respond to client inquiries within defined SLAs
- Handle any issues reported by clients and escalate, when necessary
- Proactive outreach to clients to ensure there is client retention, and satisfaction
- Assist in continuously deepening existing client relationships
- Adhere to the SOPs and compliance standards set internally
- Help identify and fix inefficiencies in current workflows and processes
- Act as an effective liaison between BitPesa and its clients, given you are the daily point of contact for the clients
- Display a high level of emotional intelligence and step into a leadership role when required
Activities
Pre-Sales Communication:
- Respond to general inquiries and answer questions about products and services
- Direct incoming inquiries to the relevant team
- Contribute regional content to Help/FAQ Page with procedures and steps to products and services
Technical Support/Troubleshooting:
- Respond to customer inquiries promptly by checking emails to attend support and trade messages and receiving calls on Customer Service line
- Proactively monitor the system to ensure everything is working fine
- Communicate and report to the Tech Team when the product/services are down
- Communicate to Finance Team to set the correct rates, help close incomplete transactions or notify them of issues related to funding, float, rates, etc
- Monitor transactions and communicate any issues to the relevant team
- Raise queries with Finance team for any transactions that have been sent to wrong accounts
Voice of the Customer / Product Feedback:
- Provide customer product feedback and product feature requests from region to Customer Service Manager
Analytics/Reconciliation:
- Work with Finance team to reconcile old transactions
Requirements
- Young professional who is ambitious and passionate
- Ability to understand and help promote customer-centric vision at BitPesa
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills
- Creative problem solver and sound decision-maker with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask, when required
- Strong attention to detail
- Love helping customers and able to maturely handle all customer temperaments
- Advanced Microsoft Office and Google Suite Tools skills along with the willingness and ability to become familiar with Company-specific sales tools/software
- Passionate about our mission to redefine how businesses make payments to, from and within Africa
- Willingness and ability to work weekends, when necessary
- University degree
- Proficiency in French / Spanish will be an added advantage
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Working with a diverse team
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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