Carry1st

Role Description As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Market Expansion (EiR), you’re not just a manager; you are the entrepreneurial engine driving Carry1st’s expansion in your market. This is an elite, 12-month high-intensity program designed for builders who crave ownership. You will be tasked with scaling Carry1st in your territory. Join a hand-picked cohort of local leaders, beginning with a rigorous 2-week bootcamp. From there, you will have the autonomy to execute and a clear mandate: - Drive revenue - Capture market share - Build a business from the ground up This is a "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" style contract. At the end of the 12 months, top performers will transition into permanent roles. This role reports to the co-founder and President of Carry1st. You will... - Own the P&L: Take full accountability for revenue growth and customer acquisition for Carry1st Shop in your country - Execute Growth Strategy: Design and deploy aggressive go-to-market plans, spanning performance marketing, influencer activations, and local community-led growth - Forge Strategic Partnerships: Identify and close deals with local payment providers, telcos, and retail chains to embed Carry1st into the local economy - Benchmark the Competition: Constantly monitor and analyze the local competitive landscape to ensure Carry1st remains the market leader in pricing, user experience, and content - Be the Market Expert: Act as the definitive source of intelligence on local gaming culture, consumer behavior, and regulatory shifts to guide our global product and engineering teams Qualifications - Entrepreneurial Drive: Experience in high-growth environments. Bonus if you have e-commerce experience - Growth Expertise: Experience scaling consumer products in your market. You understand how to move metrics quickly and optimize unit economics - Market Fluency: Deep connections within your country’s technology or gaming ecosystem. You understand how local consumers pay, play, and engage with digital content - Strategic Execution: Exceptional ability to negotiate with high-level stakeholders while remaining "hands-on" enough to execute daily tactics - Data Obsession: You use data to drive every decision, pivot, and investment - Communication: Fluent in English and the primary local language(s) of your target market Benefits - Fast-growing, dynamic work environment - Fully remote and 100% global team with people in 15+ countries - Diverse backgrounds contributing to a stronger company

Carry1st is building the dominant commerce platform for Africa and the Middle East, helping global brands unlock hard-to-reach markets by enabling local payments, boosting digital sales, and simplifying settlements across 19 core African markets. The company has developed Pay1st, a proprietary payment engine, and the Carry1st Shop, a digital marketplace for virtual goods—partnering with companies like PayPal and Chipper Cash to expand digital payments across the continent. As a **Customer Service Associate** for our Arabic-speaking markets, you'll be the primary point of contact for our users, ensuring their inquiries and technical issues are resolved with precision. You will act as a bridge between our customers and internal departments; escalating complex cases to the appropriate teams while collaborating with the wider CS department to refine workflows and drive operational excellence.

• Build and scale an automated creator program for CODM – onboarding, managing, and activating creators of all sizes whose content drives awareness, engagement, and revenue across Africa. • Advise on and execute content strategy in collaboration with creators to produce highly engaging content that grows the CODM player base. • Align creator initiatives and content output with game objectives, tracking performance against key engagement and growth metrics. • Act as the primary liaison between Carry1st and the CODM creator community, nurturing relationships across all tiers of creators.

• Identify viral trends across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X/Twitter, and localize them for the African gaming community • Manage and grow the CODM Africa community by engaging with followers and fostering an active, loyal fanbase • Liaise with Activision stakeholders, managing approvals and timelines in a fast-paced publishing environment • Track and report on channel analytics and growth metrics, using insights to refine the content strategy • Manage the content production budget, tracking spend across creators, editors, and tools to ensure efficient use of resources • Use social media management and task management tools to plan, schedule, and coordinate content workflows across the team • Represent Carry1st and Activision at gaming events across Africa and feed insights back into the content strategy

Role Description As Social Media Manager, you will own and grow the Call of Duty Mobile Africa social media presence, working in partnership with Activision to build one of the most exciting gaming communities on the continent. In this role you will own the growth strategy for the CODM Africa social media channels, including content calendar planning aligned with in-game live ops and regional events like Africa Cup. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for managing a cross-country team of video editors and graphic designers, submitting briefs, reviewing content, and ensuring on-brand delivery. To succeed in this role, you’ll need a strong eye for content and know what it takes to go viral in the African market. - Identify viral trends across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X/Twitter, and localize them for the African gaming community - Manage and grow the CODM Africa community by engaging with followers and fostering an active, loyal fanbase - Liaise with Activision stakeholders, managing approvals and timelines in a fast-paced publishing environment - Track and report on channel analytics and growth metrics, using insights to refine the content strategy - Manage the content production budget, tracking spend across creators, editors, and tools to ensure efficient use of resources - Use social media management and task management tools to plan, schedule, and coordinate content workflows across the team - Represent Carry1st and Activision at gaming events across Africa and feed insights back into the content strategy Qualifications - 3–5 years of social media management experience, ideally within gaming or entertainment - You are a gamer, ideally with a passion for first-person shooters or CODM, and you deeply understand gaming culture - Highly organized and collaborative, comfortable managing stakeholders and creatives across countries under tight deadlines - Analytically minded and comfortable using data to measure performance and report on follower growth - Basic understanding of how paid media and boosts can amplify organic social content - Bonus: You can edit short-form video using After Effects or Premiere Pro, create assets in Canva, Illustrator, or Photoshop, and are comfortable with AI tools Benefits - Build awesome, industry-changing products every day - Grow with a VC-backed startup - Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates - Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create - Co-working excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world - Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively - Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience - Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events - Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates - Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day