Growth Manager

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About Wavo

At Wavo , we are building the future of inventory financing. For SMEs, inventory is both an opportunity and a constraint: it ties up cash, slows growth and creates risk. Traditional financing solutions are often slow, rigid, and based on historical financials rather than real-time business potential.

We take a different approach. Wavo purchases and finances inventory upfront, with no debt and no personal guarantees. This allows companies to accelerate growth, improve cash flow and focus on scaling their business without financial friction.

We raised €3.5M to accelerate our expansion and roll out our model to more companies. Backed by leading investors and industry leaders, our ambition is clear: to become the European reference for integrated inventory financing.

To support this ambition, we are hiring a Growth Manager: someone able to build, operate and continuously evolve Wavo's growth engine.

What you will do

As Growth Manager, you will own and develop Wavo's growth levers. A first foundation is already in place, with active channels and early learnings, but much remains to be structured, optimised and scaled. Your role will be to build on this existing base to create a more robust, higher-performing and truly scalable approach.

You will work both on continuously improving existing channels and on opening new growth levers. This includes deep performance analysis, refining messaging, targeting and user journeys, and running fast iterations to improve volume, CAC and the quality of opportunities passed to the Sales team. You will have real autonomy to act on user journeys and the website, with a very pragmatic test-measure-iterate mindset.

Experimentation will be a core part of your role. Budget is allocated to test new channels, formats and approaches, with short cycles and strong expectations around learning and fast decision-making. Creativity and the ability to turn experiments into sustainable growth levers will be key.

You will work directly with Adrien (Marketing) to define priorities, arbitrate investments and progressively structure the Growth machine. In coordination with Sales and Ops (Guillaume), you will ensure alignment between acquisition, qualification and execution capacity. The role offers a wide and empowering scope, with direct and visible impact on Wavo's growth trajectory.

Profile we are looking for

• Strong experience in growth, acquisition or performance marketing within a demanding tech environment (startup, scale-up, fintech, marketplace, SaaS)
• Proven ability to run a multi-channel acquisition strategy with a strong focus on profitability and opportunity quality
• Strong experimentation culture: comfortable with short test cycles and rapid iterations across channels, messaging and journeys
• Ability to identify, test and activate new growth levers beyond traditional paid channels
• Solid data and unit economics mindset: able to steer performance through clear KPIs (CAC, payback, opportunity quality) and make trade-offs based on results
• Strong sensitivity to messaging, positioning and user experience, with a conversion-oriented approach
• Very hands-on profile, able to move quickly from strategy to execution in a still-evolving environment
• Ability to work closely with Marketing, Sales and Ops to build a coherent and sustainable Growth engine
• Comfortable in a startup environment where priorities evolve quickly and individual impact is high
• Based in Lyon or willing to relocate, as we believe in the value of in-person collaboration (3 days per week).
• Bonus: experience with corporate financing, e-commerce or SaaS is a plus, but not a requirement.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation: fixed salary + BSPCE
• Strategic impact: a key role in building and scaling Wavo's Growth engine
• Fast progression: the opportunity to structure, test and evolve acquisition levers during a strong acceleration phase
• Ambitious project: contribute to building an innovative SME financing model with a long-term vision
• Engaged team: a human-sized organisation that is demanding, collaborative and impact-driven

Hiring process

We believe in transparency and efficiency, and we strive to keep the process simple and smooth:

• Initial call (30 min) with Adrien to understand your background and motivations
• Deep-dive interview (1h) to explore your vision for the role, ways of working, experimentation mindset and performance approach
• Take-home case study (3h), followed by a review (1h30) with Julien (CEO) and Tanguy (Product)