Senior Growth Manager at Fairmoney Microfinance Bank

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. We started with a digital microcredit application on Android, and currently roll out additional financial services (current account, savings, debit card) while expanding the product to Western Africa and South-East Asia.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Growth Manager

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full-time
Department: Growth

Role Review

• FairMoney is seeking a New Client Acquisition Lead who will drive growth across both loans, while owning PPM Performance Platform Management) for core paid channels such as Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, OEMs, and emerging platforms.
• This role combines acquisition strategy, channel ownership, partner portfolio management, and experimentation, with a strong focus on scaling high-quality, low-risk new users across markets.
• You will own the end-to-end journey from channel development → funnel optimisation → partner onboarding → performance analysis.

Key Responsibilities
New Client Acquisition (Loans):

• Develop and execute acquisition strategies to grow quality users across FairMoneyʼs loan and banking ecosystems.
• Optimise funnel journeys & cross sell opportunities for loan disbursement, FlexiCredit, savings, and banking activation.
• Build new customer cohorts across segments (salaried, semi-formal, microbusiness, gig)
• Identify and close funnel gaps using structured experimentation and analytics.

Performance Platform Management (PPM):

• You will own all major acquisition accounts end-to-end

Google Ads:

• Manage UAC, Search, Display and Performance Max (if relevant).
• Set up, monitor, and optimise conversion tracking with MMP & GA4.
• Ensure high-quality signal delivery (events, conversion values, audience lists).
• Maintain account hygiene, budgets, pacing, bid strategies, and experiments.

Meta Ads:

• Own CAPI integrations, campaign structures, and creative optimisation.
• Oversee signal quality, retargeting pools, and custom audiences.
• Maintain compliance, account structure, and LTV-based optimisation.

TikTok, OEM Ads & Other Channels:

• Test, scale, and optimise growth from TikTok, VIVO, Oppo, Xiaomi, Transsion, etc.
• Ensure accurate tracking and signal mapping through the MMP.

Cross-Channel Governance:

• Maintain naming conventions, budget tracking, attribution mapping, and conflict avoidance.
• Collaborate with Growth Engineering to ensure tracking integrity across all channels.

Partner Portfolio Management (PPM – Partnerships):

• Identify, negotiate, and onboard high-quality acquisition partners.
• Build partner frameworks for performance, payouts, compliance, and fraud controls.
• Monitor partner performance CPA, CPR, loan disbursement rate, ROAS, default risk).
• Scale strategic partnerships across HR networks, fintechs, payroll clusters, and educational ecosystems.

New Channel Development:

• Explore, validate, and scale new acquisition avenues (salary platforms, referral systems, web funnels, API partners).
• Build playbooks from pilot → controlled scale → full rollout.
• Develop hybrid online/offline acquisition models where needed.

Growth Strategy & Experimentation:

• Own the experimentation roadmap for all acquisition and PPM channels.
• Lead A/B tests on audience, creative, incentive, and funnel variants.
• Align closely with Product, Risk, and Data teams to ensure acquisition quality and unit economics.

Key KPIs

• New quality loan users per month (risk-adjusted)..
• CAC / CPE per channel and segment.
• Disbursement rate from each acquisition source.
• ROAS across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and OEM channels.
• Partner contribution to total new customers.
• Channel scalability and repeatability

Requirements

• 4-8 years in digital growth, performance marketing, partnerships, or channel development.
• Deep experience with Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, and MMP integrations.
• Strong understanding of user funnels, attribution, and risk-adjusted acquisition.
• Experience managing acquisition partners and incentive structures.
• Ability to analyse funnels and build performance dashboards.
• Strong collaboration across Product, Risk, Data, and Marketing.

Benefits

• 25 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors.
• Remote (timezone must have significant overlap with CET).
• Training & Development budget.
• Paid company business trips.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Recruitment Process

• Screening call with Recruiter: 30 minutes.
• Technical Interview with Head of Growth.