Join our growing People team! We're hiring a Lead People Partner to own the people agenda for our Technology organisation as M-KOPA scales the infrastructure behind financial inclusion for everyday earners across Africa.
The Impact 🌍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.
The Opportunity 💚 Mission-driven HR: 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🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential, and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing company for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026)🚀 Scale challenges: Design the org structure for a globally distributed, senior engineering population spread across Africa, Europe and the UK — scaling and reshaping at the same time🌱 Environmental impact: Work for a carbon-negative company that has displaced over 2 million tonnes of CO₂ emissionsWhat You'll Do You'll act as trusted advisor to our engineering, data and platform leaders, aligning people strategy to roadmap execution and organisational evolution.
You'll hold overall accountability for people partnering across the full Technology and Product organisation, with one Senior People Partner reporting to you covering Product and adjacent functions.
Your own focus is Engineering: a globally distributed, senior population where genuine fluency in how engineering organisations are built, levelled and retained matters far more than adjacency to them.
Day to day, you'll:Lead org design: workforce planning, levelling and team transformation in a function scaling and reshaping simultaneouslyOwn Engineering and Product end to en.