About this role

General Manager at Taptap Send

Posted: Jul 23, 2026 Deadline: Not specified

The Role

As the GM Nigeria, your role will be to develop and scale Taptap Send’s supply side partnerships in the country and grow our userbase.
You will be excited to manage every aspect of growth in said markets: customer acquisition and retention strategy, pricing, user research, product quality, customer experience, team development and coaching.
You will have an acute “own it” mindset, equally obsessed with the experience of individual users as with iterating and optimizing scalable growth tactics and processes.
You will have P&L ownership, delivering the growth and profitability targets for the Nigerian market.
You will seek to establish TTS as the leading product/service for sending remittances to the country, whilst being the “face” of Nigeria both internally and externally.
Reporting directly into our Growth Director for Africa, and building and leading a team of growth managers on the ground in sending markets, the role offers the chance to join an early-stage, high growth startup and to have a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Establish a vision, strategy and execution plan for launching and scaling sending and receiving markets in Nigeria.
Lead the team on the ground to execute within collaboratively aligned timelines
Manage every aspect of growth across the sending countries: customer acquisition and retention strategy, pricing, user research, product quality, customer experience, team development and coaching
Report to the executive leadership team on progress, insights and needs, leveraging operational prowess with a data-driven test-and-learn mindset
Think creatively on ways to unlock growth, improve profitability and increase brand awareness
Hire, inspire, develop and retain top, diverse talent
Collaborate closely with both internal and external stakeholders including the Customer Service, Finance, Tech, Legal, Financial Crime, Compliance, People Ops and more
Build trust-based relationships with diaspora communities and commercial partners in the Nigeria to increase brand awareness and unlock growth and unit economics improvements
Monitor, understand, and interpret specific growth, operational, and financial metrics to improve execution
Recommend improvements to product experience based on market, competitor and customer insights and feedback

Bachelor's or Advanced Degree
7 to 15 years experience in a fast paced and high growth-environment such as startups, operations, consulting, finance, or similar
Preference for London or Dubai based
Ability to travel internationally periodically and ad-hoc to meet customers, partners and team members
Exceptional knowledge and networks in the Nigerian diaspora
Advanced stakeholder management capability
Experience building, developing, managing and leading teams
Strong analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions. Familiarity with pulling and presenting insights from data using Excel / Google suite. SQL, Python, R is a plus
An acute “own it” mindset, equally obsessed with the experience of individual users as with iterating and optimizing scalable growth tactics a

General Manager