Managing Director
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
The Role
- The MD is the founding operating executive responsible for turning an early-stage idea and a platform-in development into a licensed, fundable, and scaling fintech business.
- This is a hands-on, generalist leadership role: the Managing Director (“MD”) shall provide strategic, operational, and regulatory leadership for the Company, a regulated digital investment platform operating within Nigeria’s capital markets ecosystem.
Core Responsibilities
Operational Leadership:
- Provide executive oversight of day-to-day business operations.
- Ensure the development and implementation of scalable operational processes and controls.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across legal, compliance, technology, operations, fi nance, and business teams.
Regulatory, Licensing & Compliance:
- Lead the application for the SEC Nigeria sub-broker (digital) license, targeting 2027.
- Stand up AML / CFT, KYC, and NDPC data-protection compliance functions.
- Establish corporate governance, board processes, and internal controls. 1
- Manage and strengthen relationships with the Company’s sponsoring broker/dealer and other strategic partners.
Product & Technology Oversight:
- Own the product roadmap and oversee the engineering/product team building the platform.
- Make build-vs-buy and infrastructure decisions (payments rails, market-data and brokerage integrations, security).
- Translate between investors, regulators, and engineers.
Finance & Operations:
- Manage runway, burn rate, budgeting, and financial controls.
- Track and improve unit economics (CAC, LTV, take rate, transaction margins).
- Set the operating cadence and build core processes from near-zero.
Growth & Go-to-Market:
- Drive business development initiatives and strategic partnerships.
- Oversee customer growth, product adoption, and revenue generation.
- Monitor business performance against approved targets and key performance indicators.
People & Culture Leadership:
- Hire, retain, and lead early talent on a constrained budget through culture, and organisation culture
- Build and lead a high-performing team aligned with the Company’s values and objectives.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, professionalism, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills & Experience
Non-negotiable (must demonstrate at a high level):
- Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification
- A minimum of ten (10) years post-qualification experience in banking, finance,capital markets, financial services, fintech, investment management, or a related field.
- Demonstrable experience within regulated financial services environments.
- Strong understanding of Nigerian capital markets and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience engaging with regulators, institutional stakeholders, investors, or financial market participants.
- Enough product/technology fluency to lead delivery of a digital platform.
- Proven leadership experience with responsibility for teams, projects, business units, or strategic initiatives.
Strongly preferred:
- Prior experience in a fintech, brokerage, or capital-markets business. • Financial management and unit- economics fluency.
- Early-stage / start-up operating experience (0-to-1).
- Credible with investors, regulators, and technical teams alike.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base Salary: N2,900,000 per month (gross)
- Performance bonus tied to agreed KPIs and company milestones
- Flexible working arrangements.
Application Closing Date
31st July, 2026.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: olajumsie@yahoo.com using the Job Title as subject of the emai.