Head of Partnerships (Africa) in London

Spending time in a hub location (London, Dubai, Paris, or New York) and Africa (50%+). Shape the future of Africa’s financial landscape while building your legacy. This is your chance to lead business strategy, build powerful commercial relationships and directly drive positive outcomes for the continent and diaspora communities around the world.

You’ll have the freedom to trust your own instincts, make connections across Africa, and pursue commercial deals where your gut tells you opportunity exists. You’ll be trusted to know what’s best, to represent the business at senior levels, and to lead on some of our most critical relationships in the region.

Work for the market-leading emerging markets FinTech, with a genuine mission to support Africa's development by driving capital into the continent over the long term.

What you’ll do:

• Own the relationship with existing partners in Africa and constantly identify new partners and stakeholders.
• Negotiate great deals and oversee the process from first meeting to go-live.
• Work with regulators and policy makers across the region, representing the Taptap Send brand externally.
• Track, analyse, and report key metrics to understand market dynamics.
• Collaborate with other members of the Growth team to develop and share best practices.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Ops, Business Development, and Engineering teams to ensure Taptap Send has the best product offering in the market.

What you’ll need:

• ~10+ years of experience in high-performing, fast-paced environments (tech, professional services, finance etc).
• A demonstrable instinct for commercial deal-making.
• Exposure to working with regulators and policy makers in Africa.
• Significant ties to Africa.
• “No task too small” mentality and willingness to delve into gritty details to get things done.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Fluency in a language other than English (e.g. French).
• Experience in Financial Services, Fintech, Payments.

About the company:

Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents and covering both the busiest and most underserved (remittance) corridors. The next stage of growth will fuel a network of services and products especially designed to make money more accessible to diaspora communities including local cards, and additional savings and payments features.

We’re growing fast, backed by world‑class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation.

Taptap Values:

• Impact first
• Team next
• Accept reality
• Propose solutions
• Win with grit
• Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
• Love the particular
• Own it
• Create positive energy
• Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.