Senior Growth Manager - UK to Kenya

Lem Fi (Series B) is building the go-to financial app for the Global South.

Moving to a new country shouldn’t mean starting from zero. That's why our team of 400+ spanning 20+ countries is building a financial ecosystem that helps immigrants stay connected to home, build stability, and create wealth regardless of where they are from or where they live.

What began as fast, affordable remittances is now evolving into a complete platform for multi-currency accounts, payments, credit, and long-term financial growth.

With millions of users across the globe, we process over $1B in monthly transactions to 30+ countries, proving that borders shouldn’t limit financial opportunity.

As the Growth Manager for the UK-Kenya corridor, you'll drive Lem Fi's expansion across East African communities in one of our most critical markets. This is a growth role that requires you to be equally comfortable traveling to key diaspora hubs to build physical community presence and managing high-leverage organic growth. You will own direct influencer negotiations, manage external agencies, partners and key community leaders, and execute grassroots field marketing.

You'll spend 3 to 5 days every few weeks in a new UK city, representing Lem Fi at East African community events, building partnerships, rigorously tracking campaign performance and accelerating user acquisition. You're embedded in the communities we serve, acting as both a strategic thinker and a ground-level operator. You will work across paid channels, organic strategy, local agency partners, and product teams to drive massive user acquisition in this market, while serving as the internal voice of the user.

• Map, infiltrate, and build genuine presence inside East African diaspora associations, Whats App groups, and community networks across the UK, seeding Lem Fi authentically and tracking what drives real sign-ups.

• Travel across the UK 3 to 5 days every few weeks, establishing on-the-ground presence in new cities. Lead community-driven initiatives to build trust, awareness and advocacy for Lem Fi. Organize and participate in local events, meetups and forums. Build and maintain strong relationships with community leaders and grassroots partners implementing tracking mechanisms to measure the exact customer acquisition cost of your offline activities.

• Develop and execute comprehensive user acquisition strategies tailored to East African communities in the UK. Own growth targets for assigned markets and optimize campaigns using data and insights.

• Source, negotiate directly with, and manage partnerships to accelerate user growth. Ensure partnerships deliver mutual value and measurable outcomes tied directly to user acquisition.

• Conduct ongoing market research to understand user needs, behaviours and preferences. Provide actionable insights to Product and Marketing teams. Serve as the internal voice of the user, representing community perspectives in decision-making.

• Own the full campaign lifecycle from concept to close: brief, execute, measure cost per acquisition and conversion to first-time transacting users, and iterate fast.

• Identify new community touchpoints and partnership opportunities across the East African diaspora (Kenya, Rwanda, and broader East Africa) and bring them live quickly.

• Use AI tools to accelerate your own output - drafting campaign copy, analysing performance data, and building outreach at scale - while applying your own judgement to validate every insight before acting on it.

• At least 5 years of experience in fast-paced environments with a background in growth, sales, marketing or similar.

• Deep understanding of the East African community in the UK. You're culturally fluent and…