Payment Operations Lead - Cape Town, South Africa - Carry1st

Carry1st

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Carry1st is Africa's leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. We develop, licence, and publish games and monetize them effectively with our proprietary platform. We are backed by investors like a16z, Google, Riot Games, Bitkraft, and Nas.

As Payment Operations Lead, you will be responsible for managing the Payment Operations function which underpins the D2C Carry1st Shop and our B2B Pay1st API.

This includes:

Prioritising constant operational excellence for our payments infrastructure
Monitoring performance and then directing the PayOps team to optimise further
Managing the Payment Success team to prioritise high auth rates and customer acceptance
Managing the Fraud team to limit losses due to fraud and chargebacks
Working closely with the Gateway Product Lead to identify roadmap initiatives
Maintaining payment partner integrations and relations then getting the best out of them
Being responsible for maintaining payments compliance and regulations
Coaching and mentoring an enthusiastic remote team to guide their career progression

Requirements:

37 years leading a Payment Operations department as a Manager
You are obsessed with operational excellence and constantly strive to achieve it
Deep knowledge of the African payments landscape (incl. Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt)
You have connections and relationships with African and Global Payment Service Providers
Strong communicator both upwards, downwards and horizontally within an organisation
Datadriven data is how you measure performance and impact
You have worked for an ecommerce company and/or for a Payment Service Provider (PSP)
Bonus you love the games industry

Benefits

What will it be like to work at Carry1st?
Carry1st is a fast-growing, dynamic place to work. And while we are laser focused on building the flagship mobile internet company in Africa, our team is fully remote and 100% global - with people in 25+ countries At Carry1st, you will

Build awesome, industrychanging products, every day
Grow with a VCbacked startup at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and web
Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
Own shares in the Company enabling you to benefit from the value you create

Some additional perks

Coworking excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world
Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively
Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

Join us

Learn more about Carry1st

Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market