Head of Growth at Amaanah Non-Interest Finance Company

Amaanah Non-Interest Finance Company is the pioneering non-interest finance company licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, committed to providing ethical investment and financing solutions to individuals, micro, small, and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs), and startups. At Amaanah, we are redefining what it means to invest and grow ethically by providing fair, inclusive, and impactful investment and financing solutions and also driving shared prosperity across communities.

We move beyond conventional finance by rejecting interest-based models and championing a more impactful alternative: economic inclusion over just financial inclusion. We provide the ethical capital and strategic partnerships that empower individuals, MSMEs, and startups to fuel real economic growth and create lasting social impact.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Growth

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time (Hybrid)

Job Description

• Own the consolidated growth strategy for Amaanah Finance across the three product lines, BNPL, investment, and HNI, and align it with the firm's commercial ambition and values.
• Set the annual growth plan, including blended and per-vertical targets for customer acquisition, AUM, transaction volume, mandate wins, and revenue.
• Directly line-manage the BNPL Growth Manager, the Investment Growth Manager, and the HNI Growth Manager, holding each to the KPIs appropriate to their vertical.
• Run a structured weekly operating cadence, pipeline reviews, performance dashboards, and blocker resolution that keeps the three verticals on track and surfaces issues early.
• Build and maintain the firm's shared growth infrastructure, analytics stack, experimentation framework, lifecycle, and CRM platform, attribution model, and reporting dashboards, on which all three verticals draw.
• Partner with the Head of Operations to ensure that growth wins on the BNPL platform are operationally deliverable, that merchant partnerships translate into clean operational integrations, and that customer-acquisition velocity is matched by approval and fulfilment capacity.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Master's degree (MBA) is an advantage.
• Continuing professional development in growth leadership - Reforge, Google / Meta growth programmes, INSEAD, LBS, or equivalent - is welcome.

Professional Experience:

• Must have 12–15 years of progressive growth, digital marketing, or commercial experience, with at least 5 years at HOD or senior growth-leadership level.
• Demonstrable track record of building and scaling growth functions across multiple consumer products - fintech, e-commerce, BNPL, payments, marketplace, or asset-management platforms - in Nigeria or comparable markets.
• Hands-on (and previously hands-on) command of the full digital-funnel growth craft: performance marketing, SEO, ASO, lifecycle and CRM, content, conversion-rate optimisation, and structured experimentation.
• Strong personal command of growth analytics and unit economics; able to challenge a Manager's data, not just receive it.
• Demonstrable success in building and leading multi-disciplinary growth teams, including direct line management of senior managers.
• Experience operating in regulated financial services in Nigeria or comparable markets, including familiarity with CBN, SEC, and conduct regulations relevant to consumer finance and retail investment.
• Genuine personal alignment with values-led, ethical finance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.