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Head of Merchant Experience (MX)

PawaPay4 open roles

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8.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. PawaPay postings stay open a median of 6 days.

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  5. 34.1%30 days
This job: posted 125 days ago

PawaPay median: 6 days open

The posting

Who is PawaPay

PawaPay is a pan-African fintech enabling local payment channels used by the mass market to both local and international merchants. We operate in a highly regulated, partner-driven environment and are in scale-up mode, with ambitious growth plans across multiple African markets.

Our vision is to simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa and we do that by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent.

Through our payments API we already facilitate over 4 million transactions a day across 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. We are the largest PSP on the Continent for the processing of mobile money payments, and have positioned ourselves well to lead the payment space as it grows over the next decade.

At PawaPay, there is an entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a modern and professional working culture. The fast-paced, ever-changing environment will suit someone who can adapt and think on their feet. In return, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a group of dedicated and smart individuals working towards the same mission. We work as a remote team and have team members in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The Role

We are looking for a Head of Merchant Experience to build and lead a new Merchant Experience (MX) function within Product.

This is a senior product leadership role responsible for every stage of the merchant journey — from a merchant's first interaction with PawaPay through onboarding, integration, live operations and long-term growth.

Today, many parts of the merchant experience are owned by different teams across the business. Your mission is to bring those experiences together into a single, coherent strategy, roadmap and operating model.

You will drive the Merchant Experience between Operations, Support, Treasury, Sales, Marketing and Account Management.

For that, you’ll have a team of engineers, QA and a designer to enable teams and build the best experience for our merchants.

As AI increasingly changes how software is built and consumed, you'll also help shape experiences that work equally well for human users and the AI-powered tools and agents that increasingly interact with payment infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Build and lead the Merchant Experience function

  • Define the vision, strategy and roadmap for MX as a new product discipline.
  • Lead and expand a high-performing team across product, design and engineering.
  • Establish the operating rhythms, metrics and accountability structures that make the function run.
  • Create a single MX scorecard that gives the business clear, consistent visibility into merchant health.

Own the merchant journey end-to-end

  • Take full ownership of the merchant lifecycle: discovery, onboarding, integration, live operations and expansion.
  • Drive measurable improvements in activation, operations and retention.
  • Identify and eliminate friction at every stage of the journey.

Build product experiences merchants actually love

  • Lead the evolution of the merchant dashboard, onboarding flows, documentation and support experience.
  • Champion quality, usability and design that respects the merchant's time and intelligence.
  • Push self-serve as a first principle — without sacrificing the quality of support when it's needed.

Use AI where it genuinely matters

  • Identify high-leverage opportunities to apply AI across onboarding, support, analytics and merchant productivity.
  • Help define what world-class AI-enabled merchant experiences look like in the payments context.
  • Ensure AI-powered experiences are trustworthy, measurable and built for the regulatory environments we operate in.
  • Think ahead: how will agent-driven interactions with payment infrastructure reshape the merchant experience.

Deliver outcomes the business can measure

  • Reduce time-to-value for new merchants.
  • Improve onboarding completion and activation rates.
  • Reduce support volume and cost-to-serve.
  • Build the kind of merchant satisfaction that turns into expansion and advocacy.

What We're Looking For

Required

  • A builder mindset and skillset.
  • 10+ years across Product, Customer Experience, Platform or Digital Product leadership.
  • 4+ years leading multidisciplinary teams.
  • A proven track record of improving customer or user experiences at real scale.
  • Experience owning commercial outcomes — new revenue, expansion, churn.
  • A background building high quality AI-enabled products or workflows that take action.
  • Strong product and technology fluency; you can go deep with engineering when it counts.
  • Excellent communicator - you simplify and create cohesion.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and energised by the challenge of building something new.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in payments, fintech or developer platforms.
  • B2B SaaS or infrastructure experience.
  • Exposure to African markets or emerging-market technology businesses.
  • Experience scaling teams and functions through rapid growth.

Probably not for you if

  • You need direct authority to create change.
  • You love to set strategy, but prefer others to execute on it.
  • You feel that this role is about onboarding.

Why PawaPay?

  • Help improve financial access in Africa
  • Being part of an amazing team that shapes company’s culture as a great place to be
  • An ambitious, talented, and diverse team who always has your back
  • We grow fast, and you will grow fast with us
  • Competitive remuneration
  • 35 days of paid leave per year (inclusive of public holidays) and more.
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