Lead People Partner - Technology (Remote)

The Impact

• Your leadership will directly shape how we build, retain and grow the engineering talent powering our mission.
• We've now reached 10 million customers and unlocked $2+ billion in credit across five African markets.
• This role sits right at the centre of the machine that makes that growth possible.

The Opportunity

• Mission-driven HR: Partner directly with our CTO and their leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security — work that translates straight into digital and financial access for everyday earners
• 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 company for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026)
• Scale challenges: Design the org structure for a globally distributed, senior engineering population spread across Africa, Europe and the UK — scaling and reshaping at the same time
• Environmental impact: Work for a carbon-negative company that has displaced over 2 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions.

What You'll Do

• You'll be a trusted advisor to our product, design and digital lending leaders, aligning people strategy to product delivery and team evolution, while also owning the people agenda for fraud, workplaces, impact and corporate communications and marketing across multiple markets and operating models.
• It's a portfolio with unusual variety — succeeding here means switching register comfortably and building credibility with very different kinds of leaders, from a design team to a fraud operations team in the same day.

Day to day, you'll:

• Lead org design: workforce planning, levelling and team transformation in a function scaling and reshaping simultaneously
• Own Engineering and Product end to end: full accountability for people partnering across both, with a Senior People Partner reporting to you
• Lead and grow a partner: coach, develop and set direction for your direct report, building the partnering standard for the whole technology portfolio
• Use people analytics to inform action: partner with Centres of Excellence to turn data into decisions on capability, attrition and cost
• Drive distributed team effectiveness: optimise performance, engagement and team dynamics in a fast-paced, asynchronous, multi-country environment
• Handle complex employee relations: own the senior and sensitive end of the ER caseload for your portfolio.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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