M-KOPA - Senior CRM Manager - Lifecycle & Retention
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Requirements
• 6+ years building and scaling CRM or lifecycle marketing - ideally in businesses where daily or weekly customer engagement drives retention and revenue. • Relevant backgrounds we're interested in: MVNO experience, super-apps with daily engagement models, mobile gaming with daily retention mechanics, prepaid subscription services, or B2C fintech/subscription businesses where high-frequency engagement drives the model. • You've built CRM systems, not just optimised them - whether migrating platforms (Mailchimp → Braze), designing journey architecture from scratch, or scaling programmes across markets. • You're hands-on in CRM platforms daily - personally building journeys in tools like Braze, CleverTap, MoEngage, Customer.io http://Customer.io, or Iterable. • You think in business outcomes - your achievements mention LTV growth, retention revenue, upsell rates, renewal improvements - not just open rates or engagement metrics. • You run rigorous experiments - designing tests with clear hypotheses, control groups, and measurable success criteria. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/c4edf566-f4eb-4a14-8e39-8ef3d3b58d04/image.png]
Responsibilities
• You'll own CRM strategy and execution end-to-end. Build automated customer journeys in CleverTap/Braze, run experiments on messaging and timing, analyse retention cohorts, and scale successful programmes across markets. Partner with Product, Commercial, and Operations teams to turn customer behaviour into growth opportunities. • Build and scale multi-channel lifecycle programmes: Design onboarding, retention, churn prevention, and upsell journeys across SMS, WhatsApp, push, and in-app messaging • Design behavioural trigger-based upsell systems: Move customers from entry products (smartphones/e-bikes) to higher-value bundles (digital loans, insurance, device protection) based on payment behaviour and engagement signals • Run rigorous experiments: A/B test messaging, timing, incentives, and offers with clear hypotheses and statistical rigour - then turn wins into repeatable playbooks • Own retention economics: Track and optimise LTV, cohort retention, renewal rates, and upsell performance - translating insights into action • Scale what works across markets: Turn successful experiments into documented frameworks that enable teams to execute growth initiatives across 5 African markets • Your Environment 💼 • Tech Stack: CleverTap, Braze, MoEngage, or similar • Analytics: Mixpanel, Amplitude, Looker • Channels: WhatsApp, SMS, push, in-app messaging, telesales
Benefits
• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones • Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa • Professional development programs and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements • Well-being support and career growth opportunities • We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities. • Our technology has created measurable change: • Connected 📱: 2.5 million first-time mobile internet users connected • Prosperous 💰: 62% of customers use M-KOPA smartphones for income generation, with 35,000+ livelihoods created for agents • Green 🌱: 2.1 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided • Ready to build growth systems that create real-world financial inclusion while advancing your career in fintech? • At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/369018b8-cf9c-49c7-95f1-1d414482ba57/B13.png] • Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 6 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/481f6724-8375-4f39-b514-fbe00b8fc3b5/B13.png] • Important Notice • M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. • M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. 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. • M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. • If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.
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