Join our expanding Product Growth team! We're actively recruiting another Senior CRM Manager from an MVNO background as we continue to scale our growing FinTech division at M-KOPA. You'll build and scale the growth systems that drive retention, upsell, and customer lifetime value for millions across Africa.
You'll design the retention and up-sell infrastructure that drives measurable customer lifetime value and revenue growth whilst creating financial inclusion for Africa's traditionally excluded. We've already helped over 7 million customers access over $2 billion in credit. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent
The Opportunity
Build CRM from the ground up: Design and scale lifecycle programmes across 5 African markets (Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa) - working with proprietary data from millions of customers and a unique distribution model (30,000+ field agents + 300 telesales)
Own retention and upsell outcomes: Your success is measured in LTV growth, retention rates, and upsell revenue - not just email metrics
Go hands-on daily: Build automated journeys, design experiments, analyse results, and scale what works - this isn't a strategy-only role
Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025)
What You'll Do
You'll own CRM strategy and execution end-to-end. Build automated customer journeys in CleverTap/Braze, run experiments on messaging and timing, analyse retention cohorts, and scale successful programmes across markets. Partner with Product, Commercial, and Operations teams to turn customer behaviour into growth opportunities.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Build and scale multi-channel lifecycle programmes: Design onboarding, retention, churn prevention, and upsell journeys across SMS, WhatsApp, push, and in-app messaging
Design behavioural trigger-based upsell systems: Move customers from entry products (smartphones/e-bikes) to higher-value bundles (digital loans, insurance, device protection) based on payment behaviour and engagement signals
Run rigorous experiments: A/B test messaging, timing, incentives, and offers with clear hypotheses and statistical rigour - then turn wins into repeatable playbooks
Own retention economics: Track and optimise LTV, cohort retention, renewal rates, and upsell performance - translating insights into action
Scale what works across markets: Turn successful experiments into documented frameworks that enable teams to execute growth initiatives across 5 African markets
Your Environment
Tech Stack: CleverTap, Braze, MoEngage, or similar
Analytics: Mixpanel, Amplitude, Looker
Channels: WhatsApp, SMS, push, in-app messaging, telesales
What You Need
6+ years building and scaling CRM or lifecycle marketing - ideally in businesses where daily or weekly customer engagement drives retention and revenue.
Relevant backgrounds we're interested in: We're particularly interested in candidates with MVNO experience - if you've worked in mobile network operations where prepaid customers, daily top-ups, and churn prevention are core to the business model, we want to hear from you.
You've built CRM systems, not just optimised them - whether migrating platforms (Mailchimp Braze), designing journey architecture from scratch, or scaling programmes across markets.
You're hands-on in CRM platforms daily - personally building journeys in tools like Braze, CleverTap, MoEngage, Customer.io, or Iterable.
You think in business outcomes - your achievements mention LTV growth, retention revenue, upsell rates, renewal improvements - not just open rates or engagement metrics.
You run rigorous experiments - designing tests with clear hypotheses, control groups, and measurable success criteria.
Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
Well-being support and career growth opportunities
We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.
Our technology has created measurable change:
Connected : 2.5 million first-time mobile internet users connected
Prosperous : 62% of customers use M-KOPA smartphones for income generation, with 35,000+ livelihoods created for agents
Green : 2.1 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided
Ready to build growth systems that create real-world financial inclusion while advancing your career in fintech?
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 7 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.
Important Notice
M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.
If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.
