Head of Special Projects Aka The Wizard

Juicyway

9d

About The Position

There is a business owner in Lagos who woke up this morning and still hasn't received a payment she sent last week. She's not waiting because the money isn't there. She's waiting because the infrastructure that moves it was never built with her in mind.
Juicyway exists to fix that. We are building the financial rails that connect African businesses to the world — cross-border payments, FX conversions, and global liquidity, done with the speed and transparency that African businesses deserve. Our mission isn't a slide. It's the reason we come to work: every African should be able to participate in the global economy on equal footing.
We're not improving what exists. We're replacing it. And we're looking for the people who want to help us do that.

The problem you'll be solving
Building payments infrastructure for a continent is not a clean problem. The market is fragmented. Regulations shift. The edge cases are endless. And in the middle of shipping, growing, and staying compliant across multiple jurisdictions, things accumulate.
A workflow three teams are quietly working around without saying why. A process that made sense at half our current scale. A market we've been meaning to enter for six months but nobody owns it. A decision made eighteen months ago that nobody has revisited.
This role exists to find those things. And fix them.
You will sit at the center of the business, working directly with the CEO on the highest-priority operational and strategic challenges we face. The remit is deliberately wide because the need is wide. You go where the leverage is highest, own it completely, and see it through to the end.
No two months will look the same in this role. But here is the shape of the work:
Leading market expansion efforts from end to end — country selection, regulatory groundwork, operational setup, and launch
Owning the strategic initiatives that don't fit neatly inside any one function and need someone to drive them from idea to shipped
Walking into any department, auditing how it works, and having the judgment and courage to call out what's slowing us down
Building the internal systems, workflows, and operational infrastructure that let a fast-growing company stay sharp as it scales
Producing the data-driven analysis that informs our biggest decisions — market sizing, competitive positioning, performance diagnostics
Supporting strategic planning, goal setting, and performance management at the leadership level
Helping every team rethink how they work — bringing AI and automation into processes still running on instinct and manual effort
Identifying new business opportunities and owning the earliest, hardest stages of turning them into real things

Requirements

• You have spent five or more years operating in fast-moving environments — startups, consulting, ops, product, strategy — and you have a track record that shows it. Not just time served. Quantifiable things you moved, built, or fixed.
• You think from first principles. When something isn't working, your instinct isn't to patch it — it's to ask whether it should exist at all. You are analytically sharp: comfortable getting into the data yourself, fluent in the numbers that actually drive a business, and able to turn a messy situation into a clear point of view fast.
• You don't need a playbook. You'd rather write one. You move before you're asked to, own the outcome completely, and you are the kind of person who makes everyone around you sharper just by being in the room.
• You are AI-native in practice, not just on paper. You are already using it to work faster and think better, and you are the person who brings that energy to every team you touch.
• And you care about what we are building here. Not abstractly. You understand what it means to be locked out of global systems that weren't designed for you — and you want to spend the next chapter of your career on the team that is changing that.
• 5 to 10 years in operations, strategy, product, revenue ops, or consulting
• At least two of those years inside a fast-growth startup — you know what real scale pressure feels like
• Strong analytical foundation — you get into the data yourself and come out with a clear answer
• Proven track record of shipping things with measurable impact
• The communication skills to make a complex situation legible to anyone in the room

Nice To Haves

• SQL, low-code or no-code experience, working across multiple countries or markets, or building products where customer experience and growth were central

Responsibilities

• Leading market expansion efforts from end to end — country selection, regulatory groundwork, operational setup, and launch
• Owning the strategic initiatives that don't fit neatly inside any one function and need someone to drive them from idea to shipped
• Walking into any department, auditing how it works, and having the judgment and courage to call out what's slowing us down
• Building the internal systems, workflows, and operational infrastructure that let a fast-growing company stay sharp as it scales
• Producing the data-driven analysis that informs our biggest decisions — market sizing, competitive positioning, performance diagnostics
• Supporting strategic planning, goal setting, and performance management at the leadership level
• Helping every team rethink how they work — bringing AI and automation into processes still running on instinct and manual effort
• Identifying new business opportunities and owning the earliest, hardest stages of turning them into real things

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Meaningful equity at an early stage
• Real flexibility on hours, location, and how you do your best work
• A direct line to the CEO — you will be in the room where the decisions get made, not briefed on them afterwards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed