About the role
Your leadership will directly shape how we build, retain and grow the engineering talent powering our mission. We've now reached 10 million customers and unlocked $2+ billion in credit across five African markets. This role sits right at the centre of the machine that makes that growth possible.
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What you’ll do
- : Partner directly with our CTO and their leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security — work that translates straight into digital and financial access for everyday earners
- We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model, driving greater inclusion of women, youth and low-income communities.
What they’re looking for
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- Senior HR experience partnering with engineering organisations in a scaling technology or fintech business
- Experience leading or formally coaching HR business partners, with the ability to raise the standard of someone else's work
- Proven org design depth: you've led real structural change (levelling, spans and layers, function redesign), not just supported it
- Strategic and operational range: equally comfortable designing long-term org strategy and working at team level
- Remote and global savvy: experience supporting cross-cultural teams across multiple regions
- Strong business acumen: able to translate between people priorities and business outcomes at leadership level
- Comfortable operating with autonomy at C-level
- Employee relations judgement across more than one jurisdiction, knowing when to own it and when to bring in specialists (UK/Europe employment law exposure is useful given where much of the engineering population sits, but not essential — we have an ER Centre of Excellence for statutory depth)
Conditions
- M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.
How they work
- Required Experience: Senior HR experience partnering with engineering organisations in a scaling technology or fintech business Experience leading or formally coaching HR business partners, with the ability to raise the standard of someone else's work Proven org design depth: you've led real structural change (levelling, spans and layers, function redesign), not just supported it Strategic and operational range: equally comfortable designing long-term org strategy and working at team level Remote and global savvy: experience supporting cross-cultural teams across multiple regions Strong business acumen: able to translate between people priorities and business outcomes at leadership level Comfortable operating with autonomy at C-level Employee relations judgement across more than one jurisdiction, knowing when to own it and when to bring in specialists (UK/Europe employment law exposure is useful given where much of the engineering population sits, but not essential — we have an ER Centre of Excellence for statutory depth) Location & Benefits Fully Remote role - Can be Based in the UK, Nigeria or specific locations across Europe Reports to the People Director Professional development and coaching partnerships Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements Well-being support and career growth opportunities Direct exposure to our CTO and CPO, with real influence over leadership-level people decisions Our Mission 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model, driving greater inclusion of women, youth and low-income communities.
How to apply
- Day to day, you'll: Lead org design: workforce planning, levelling and team transformation in a function scaling and reshaping simultaneously Own Engineering and Product end to end: full accountability for people partnering across both, with a Senior People Partner reporting to you Lead and grow a partner: coach, develop and set direction for your direct report, building the partnering standard for the whole technology portfolio Use people analytics to inform action: partner with Centres of Excellence to turn data into decisions on capability, attrition and cost Drive distributed team effectiveness: optimise performance, engagement and team dynamics in a fast-paced, asynchronous, multi-country environment Handle complex employee relations: own the senior and sensitive end of the ER caseload for your portfolio Your Environment 💻 Reporting line: People Director, alongside a peer group of senior partners covering our operating markets Client group: CTO and their leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security, plus accountability for Product via your direct report Team: one Senior People Partner reporting to you Population: globally distributed, senior engineering talent, majority based across Africa, Europe and the UK Our Approach 🚀 We scale and reshape our engineering function at the same time, so org design here is a live, ongoing discipline, not a one-off project We hold both a portfolio and a team in this role, which is unusual even within our own People function We lean on Centres of Excellence for data and specialist ER support, freeing you to focus on judgement and stakeholder relationships We expect direct engagement with C-level leaders, with genuine autonomy attached What You Need We're looking for someone who has partnered closely with engineering, data or platform leadership in a scaling technology or fintech business, and genuinely understands how those functions work.
- Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Benefits & working conditions
- Fully Remote role - Can be Based in the UK, Nigeria or specific locations across Europe
- Reports to the People Director
- Professional development and coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support and career growth opportunities
- Direct exposure to our CTO and CPO, with real influence over leadership-level people decisions
About M-KOPA
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M-KOPA Mobility is on a mission to make clean, affordable transportation a reality for everyday people across Africa. Through our asset financing model, we're putting motorcycles and electric vehicles into the hands of riders and entrepreneurs who would otherwise be locked out of ownership, giving them the tools to earn more, move freely, and build better lives. We're not just a financial services company with vehicles attached. We're building the infrastructure, technology, and customer experience that makes sustainable mobility accessible at scale across Kenya and growing. The Mobility team operates with the energy of a startup backed by the resources and data capabilities of one of Africa's most innovative Fintechs. If you want to work on problems that matter, in a team that moves fast, and see the direct impact of your work on people's livelihoods every day; this is where you want to be.
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