Build the infrastructure for African generosity
We’re a mission-driven team building the platform where Africans support causes, run petitions, and organise for change. Join us and put your craft to work on problems that matter.
Pan-African
Hybrid + remote team
Thousands
of causes powered
Mission
over everything
Why Ardent
Work that means something
We’re small, fast, and serious about impact. Here’s what it’s like to build with us.
Impact at continental scale
Every feature you ship helps Africans support causes, run petitions, and organise for change. Your work never sits in a backlog; it compounds into real-world impact across the continent.
Ownership, not tickets
A small team with an enormous surface area. You own problems end-to-end (from the first sketch to production) and ship the things that genuinely move the needle, fast.
Hybrid by default
Most of the team works hybrid from Accra (close enough to whiteboard, pair, and ship side by side) with fully-remote roles across Africa where the work allows. We keep meetings few and decisions written down.
Trust is the product
People trust us with their generosity, their causes, and their data. We hold an uncompromising bar for security, transparency, and care in everything we build.
Benefits
We take care of our people
The support you need to do the best work of your career.
Hybrid & flexible
Hybrid from our Accra base, fully remote where it fits, with hours that flex around your life.
Competitive pay
Fair, transparent pay that reflects your impact, and grows as you do.
Learning budget
A yearly stipend for the courses, books, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Health cover
Medical cover that looks after you and the people you love.
Flexible time off
Generous, trust-based leave; switch off and recharge when you need it.
Latest gear
Top-tier hardware and tools, so nothing slows down your best work.
Impact days
Paid days each year to roll up your sleeves for causes close to your heart.
Team gatherings
We bring the whole team together in person to build, learn, and celebrate.
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Own features end-to-end across our web app, API, and database: the fundraising, petitions, and organisation tools thousands of African changemakers depend on. You will work across the whole stack on performance, security, and correctness, shaping how money moves, how causes spread, and how trust is kept across the continent.
What you’ll do
Design, build, and ship full-stack features from the database through the API to the user interface: and own them in production, not just to merge
Model data and evolve the schema carefully in a system where security and data privacy are non-negotiable
Strengthen the core money, petitions, and organisation flows while upholding the rule that Ardent never custodies third-party funds
Raise the bar on performance, accessibility, observability, and test coverage across the product
Review code with care, write the decisions down, and mentor engineers as the team grows
Partner with design and product to turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes
What you bring
5+ years building and operating production web applications with TypeScript, React, and Node.js
Strong backend and relational-database experience: API design, data modelling, and query performance
A genuine instinct for security and data privacy, and care for getting authorization and access control right
A track record of owning ambiguous, high-surface-area problems end-to-end in a fast-moving team
Care for testing, clean abstractions, and maintainable code others can build on
Bonus: payments, marketplaces, fintech, or civic-tech experience
Design and build the high-throughput backend services that power giving, petitions, and payments across Ardent Africa, written in Go for performance and reliability. You will own critical paths where correctness, latency, and uptime directly shape how money and trust move across the continent.
What you’ll do
Design, build, and operate performant, well-tested backend services in Go
Own critical request paths end-to-end (APIs, data access, and integrations) with an eye on latency and reliability
Model data and design schemas for correctness, concurrency, and scale
Build and harden integrations with payment, messaging, and partner systems
Instrument services with metrics, logging, and tracing, and carry your share of on-call
Collaborate across the stack and mentor engineers on idiomatic, maintainable Go
What you bring
4+ years building production backend services, with strong Go experience
Solid grasp of concurrency, API design, and relational data modelling
Experience operating services in production: observability, performance, and reliability
Care for security and data privacy in systems that handle money and personal data
Pragmatism about testing, simplicity, and shipping
Bonus: payments, event-driven systems, or high-scale fintech experience
Build the intelligence layer of Ardent Africa (from fraud and abuse signals to recommendations and creator tooling) with Python and FastAPI. You will take models from idea to production, where what you ship helps surface the right causes and keep the platform safe.
What you’ll do
Design, train, and ship ML models and services for ranking, recommendations, and trust & safety signals
Build and operate inference services and data pipelines in Python and FastAPI
Turn ambiguous product questions into well-scoped, measurable ML problems
Partner with trust & safety and product to put models behind real decisions, responsibly
Monitor models in production for drift, bias, quality, and cost
Document approaches and help the team build sound, repeatable ML practices
What you bring
4+ years in ML/AI engineering with strong Python and experience serving models (e.g. with FastAPI)
Solid foundations in modelling, evaluation, and the practical end of MLOps
Experience taking models from notebook to reliable production service
A responsible, privacy-conscious approach to data and applied AI
Clear communication and close collaboration with product and engineering
Bonus: fraud/abuse detection, NLP, recommender systems, or LLM application experience
Build a first-class native iOS experience for Ardent Africa in Swift: bringing donations, petitions, events, and organisation tools to iPhone users across Africa with the polish, performance, and reliability the platform deserves.
What you’ll do
Build polished, performant native iOS screens and flows in Swift
Integrate native capabilities (payments, media, notifications, deep links) reliably on iOS
Own iOS app quality: performance, accessibility, and crash-free reliability
Collaborate with backend engineers on the API contracts the app consumes
Manage the App Store release process and instrument the flows that matter most
Partner with design to bring our design system to life natively on iOS
What you bring
4+ years building and shipping native iOS apps in Swift to the App Store
Strong grasp of UIKit and/or SwiftUI, concurrency, and the iOS runtime
Experience integrating payments, media, and notifications natively
An eye for performance, accessibility, and detail
Pragmatism about testing, quality, and shipping
Bonus: experience building for emerging markets or low-bandwidth conditions
Build the Ardent Africa mobile app with React Native: bringing donations, petitions, events, and organisation tools to supporters on the everyday Android and iOS devices they actually carry. You will own native reliability, offline-friendly UX, and a mobile experience that keeps pace with web.
What you’ll do
Build polished, performant screens with React Native on top of our shared design system
Integrate native capabilities (payments, media, notifications, deep links) reliably across iOS and Android
Own the app data layer and keep mobile at feature parity with web
Profile and fix performance, layout, and platform-specific bugs, especially on lower-end Android and constrained networks
Release safely and instrument crashes and the flows that matter most
Collaborate with backend engineers on the API contracts the app consumes
What you bring
3+ years shipping React Native apps to the App Store and Google Play
Strong TypeScript and a working understanding of the native iOS and Android runtimes and where they differ
Experience with navigation and offline / low-bandwidth UX for everyday devices
Comfort integrating payments, media, and notifications, and debugging genuinely native issues
Pragmatism about quality, testing, and shipping under real-world constraints
Bonus: experience building for African or other emerging markets
Keep Ardent Africa fast, reliable, and secure as it scales across the continent. You will own the platform, deployment pipelines, and reliability practices that let engineers ship safely and that keep donations, petitions, and events available when people need them.
What you’ll do
Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines as code
Build the observability, alerting, and runbooks that keep services reliable
Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems, and drive the fixes that prevent repeats
Harden the platform: secrets management, access controls, backups, and disaster recovery
Improve performance, cost, and developer experience across environments
Partner with engineering to make the safe path the easy path
What you bring
4+ years in DevOps, platform, or SRE roles operating production systems
Strong with cloud infrastructure, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD
Experience with observability, incident response, and on-call at scale
A security-first mindset for infrastructure, secrets, and access
Comfort scripting and automating in a Unix environment
Bonus: experience scaling consumer or fintech platforms in emerging markets
Help keep donors, signers, and their data safe. You will lead application security across Ardent Africa: threat modelling, secure-by-default practices, and the reviews and tooling that make a product built on trust genuinely trustworthy.
What you’ll do
Partner with engineers on threat modelling, secure design, and security reviews of new features
Build secure-by-default guardrails, tooling, and automated checks into the development lifecycle
Triage, prioritise, and help remediate vulnerabilities, and run a responsible-disclosure process
Champion best practices for authentication, authorization, data protection, and secrets
Help prepare for audits and uphold our security and privacy commitments
Raise the security bar through training, paved roads, and clear, pragmatic guidance
What you bring
4+ years in application or product security
Strong understanding of common vulnerability classes and modern secure-development practices
Hands-on with secure code review, threat modelling, and security tooling
Ability to partner with engineers and explain risk in terms that drive action
Sound judgment about pragmatic, proportionate security
Bonus: cloud security, fintech/payments, or building a security program from early stages
Build the data foundation that helps Ardent Africa understand impact and make better decisions. You will own the pipelines, models, and metrics that turn raw platform activity into trustworthy, privacy-respecting insight for product, growth, and trust & safety.
What you’ll do
Design and build reliable data pipelines and transformations from source systems to the warehouse
Model clean, well-documented datasets and metrics that teams can trust
Partner with product, growth, and finance to define and serve the metrics that matter
Build privacy-respecting data flows that protect personal and sensitive information
Ensure data quality, lineage, and reliability with testing and monitoring
Enable self-serve analytics and give trust & safety the data it needs
What you bring
4+ years in data or analytics engineering
Strong SQL and experience building pipelines and warehouse data models
Experience with a modern data stack and transformation tooling
A privacy-first approach to handling personal and sensitive data
Clear communication and partnership with non-technical stakeholders
Bonus: event analytics, BI tooling, or fintech/marketplace data experience
Own the roadmap for products that help millions of Africans give, sign, and organise. You will turn user needs, impact goals, and hard trade-offs into shipped products: working end-to-end with engineering, design, and trust & safety to make the platform genuinely better.
What you’ll do
Own product strategy and roadmap for a core area: fundraising, petitions, organisations, or marketplace
Discover real user needs through research and data, and turn them into a clear, prioritised plan
Write crisp specs and lead delivery end-to-end with engineering and design
Define success metrics and rigorously measure outcomes, not output
Balance growth, trust, and impact: and the rule that Ardent never custodies third-party funds
Communicate context and decisions clearly across the company
What you bring
4+ years of product management shipping consumer or platform products
A track record of outcomes driven by both qualitative insight and data
Strong collaboration with engineering and design, and clear written communication
Comfort with ambiguity, prioritisation, and hard trade-offs
Genuine user empathy and a bias for shipping and learning
Bonus: fintech, marketplaces, civic tech, or experience in African markets
Shape how millions of people give, sign, and organise. You will own journeys end-to-end (research, interaction, and visual design) across web and mobile, designing for trust, clarity, and the realities of low-bandwidth, multi-device use across Africa.
What you’ll do
Lead design for core journeys (donate, start a cause, run a petition, organisation hubs) from concept to shipped product
Run lightweight research with real African users and turn insight into clear, inclusive, accessible interfaces
Design for trust: make giving, signing, and verification feel safe and transparent at every step
Extend and steward our design system alongside engineering so quality scales across every surface
Prototype and iterate quickly against real data, real content, and real constraints: bandwidth, device, and literacy
Partner closely with engineers and product to ship, measure, and refine
What you bring
4+ years of product design with a portfolio of shipped web and mobile work
Strong interaction and visual craft; fluent in Figma and modern prototyping
Experience designing accessible, inclusive products: ideally for low-bandwidth or emerging-market contexts
A researcher mindset: comfortable talking to users and validating decisions with data
A clear communicator who collaborates tightly with engineering and writes to explain the why
Bonus: design-systems work, motion and interaction design, or fintech / civic-tech experience
Shape the words that guide millions through giving, signing, and organising. You will own product content and UX writing across Ardent Africa: making complex, high-trust moments feel clear, human, and reassuring, in plain language that works across the continent.
What you’ll do
Craft clear, inclusive product copy: flows, empty states, errors, and notifications
Build and steward voice, tone, and content guidelines across web and mobile
Make high-stakes moments (donating, verification, payments) feel clear and trustworthy
Partner with designers, PMs, and engineers from first draft to shipped product
Write for accessibility, low literacy, and the multilingual realities of the continent
Test and iterate content with real users and real data
What you bring
4+ years in content design or UX writing for digital products
A portfolio showing clear, user-centred writing across complex flows
Skill at making complex or sensitive topics simple and human
Fluent, precise English and sensitivity to multilingual and low-literacy contexts
Close collaboration with design, product, and engineering
Bonus: design-systems content, localisation, or fintech / civic-tech experience
Be the voice of the user inside Ardent Africa. You will run the research that grounds our decisions in the real needs, contexts, and constraints of Africans who give, sign, and organise: so we build the right things, for the right people, the right way.
What you’ll do
Plan and run qualitative and quantitative research across web and mobile
Recruit and study real users across diverse African contexts, devices, and bandwidths
Turn findings into clear, actionable insight that shapes product and design decisions
Build lightweight, repeatable research practices the whole team can use
Partner with PMs and designers to size opportunities and de-risk decisions
Champion ethical, privacy-respecting research with diverse and vulnerable users
What you bring
4+ years in UX or product research for digital products
Fluency across interviews, usability testing, surveys, and basic analysis
A track record of research that measurably changed product decisions
Strong communication and the ability to influence without authority
Sensitivity to ethics, privacy, and diverse, emerging-market contexts
Bonus: field research in Africa, mixed methods, or fintech / civic-tech experience
Grow Ardent Africa’s reach with NGOs, corporates, and community leaders: building the partnerships and growth engine that put more impact within reach across the continent. You will own relationships and experiments end-to-end, from the first conversation to measurable, compounding growth.
What you’ll do
Build and own relationships with NGOs, corporate CSR teams, foundations, and ecosystem partners
Design and run growth experiments across channels: measure rigorously and double down on what works
Land and expand organisation accounts (NGO and corporate) and CSR programmes that drive real platform activity
Bring partner and user insight back into product and roadmap decisions
Represent Ardent Africa publicly: at events, in communities, and in partner conversations across Africa
Build the playbooks, materials, and lightweight tooling that let partnerships scale beyond you
What you bring
4+ years in growth, partnerships, or business development: impact, fintech, or tech a strong plus
A track record of building partnerships that drove measurable outcomes, not just logos
Excellent communication and relationship-building across cultures and levels of seniority
A data-informed, experimental approach to growth
Deep understanding of the African nonprofit, corporate, and donor landscape
Bonus: an existing network across African NGOs or CSR teams, or experience launching across multiple markets
Grow the ecosystem around Ardent Africa’s public platform: the developers, partners, and builders who extend giving and advocacy into their own products. You will be the bridge between our developer community and our product, making it genuinely delightful to build on Ardent.
What you’ll do
Be the voice of developers internally and the face of Ardent in the developer community
Create excellent docs, guides, samples, and demos that help people build quickly
Support integrators and partners and turn their feedback into product improvements
Grow adoption of our public API, widgets, and integrations across the ecosystem
Represent Ardent at meetups, hackathons, and online developer communities
Build the programs and content that make our platform the obvious thing to build on
What you bring
3+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a developer-facing engineering role
Enough hands-on engineering ability to build and explain real integrations
Outstanding technical writing and communication
Genuine empathy for developers and a community-builder’s instinct
Comfort speaking and engaging across online and in-person communities
Bonus: API products, open source, or African developer-community experience
Tell the story of Ardent Africa to the world. You will own content and communications across our channels: shaping how supporters, partners, press, and the public understand the impact we enable, and turning real stories of generosity into reach and trust.
What you’ll do
Own our content calendar and produce compelling content across channels
Shape and protect our brand voice, narrative, and messaging
Surface and tell real stories of impact from across the platform and the Foundation
Manage press, partner communications, and announcements
Partner with growth and community to turn content into reach and trust
Measure what resonates and continuously sharpen the strategy
What you bring
4+ years in content, communications, brand, or editorial roles
Outstanding writing, editing, and storytelling across formats
Experience owning a brand voice and a multi-channel content strategy
Comfort with analytics and an audience-first, iterative approach
Sound judgment with press, partners, and sensitive topics
Bonus: nonprofit, advocacy, fintech, or pan-African communications experience
Be the voice of Ardent Africa: nurturing the campaigners, organisers, and supporters whose causes power the platform, and turning our community into our strongest growth and trust engine. You will meet people where they are, across social, messaging, and on-platform, in the channels Africans actually use.
What you’ll do
Engage and grow our community across social, email, WhatsApp and messaging, and on-platform channels
Coach campaigners and organisers to run successful fundraisers and petitions, and unblock them fast
Surface and amplify stories of real impact across the ecosystem and our own channels
Run our presence on the platforms our users live on, adapting tone and format to each
Gather community feedback and signal, and turn it into clear input for product, support, and trust & safety
Help shape the campaigns, moments, and content that bring new supporters in
What you bring
3+ years in community, social, content, or campaigns roles
Outstanding written communication and storytelling in English (additional African languages a plus)
Deep empathy for users and a genuine service mindset
Comfort with analytics and an experimental, iterative approach to what you publish
Fluency with the social and messaging platforms widely used across Africa
Bonus: experience in nonprofit, advocacy, creator, or movement-building communities
Be the human on the other end for the people who trust Ardent Africa with their causes and their generosity. You will resolve issues with care and speed, and turn what users tell us into a steadily better, more trustworthy platform.
What you’ll do
Respond to supporter, campaigner, and organiser questions with empathy and accuracy
Resolve issues across donations, petitions, accounts, and verification, and know when to escalate
Build and maintain help content and canned responses that scale good answers
Spot patterns in support volume and feed them to product, trust & safety, and engineering
Help shape support processes, tooling, and SLAs as we grow
Protect users by handling sensitive data and situations with discretion
What you bring
2+ years in customer support, success, or community operations
Outstanding written communication and genuine empathy under pressure
Strong problem-solving and judgment about when to escalate
Comfort with support tooling and a process-improvement mindset
Discretion with sensitive personal and financial information
Bonus: fintech, marketplace, or nonprofit support experience; additional African languages
Help campaigners and creators succeed from day one. You will own onboarding and success for the people starting fundraisers and petitions: coaching them, removing friction, and turning first-time creators into thriving, repeat organisers.
What you’ll do
Onboard new campaigners and creators and guide them to a strong first launch
Coach organisers on the best practices that drive real fundraising and advocacy outcomes
Build playbooks, templates, and resources that help creators succeed at scale
Identify and remove friction in the create-and-launch journey, with product and design
Nurture high-potential creators and turn their wins into repeatable patterns
Champion the creator’s voice in product and roadmap decisions
What you bring
3+ years in customer success, onboarding, account management, or creator/community roles
A track record of driving measurable user activation and outcomes
Excellent communication, coaching, and relationship-building
A data-informed, experiment-driven approach to improving success
Deep empathy for creators and organisers across diverse contexts
Bonus: crowdfunding, creator platforms, advocacy, or African market experience
Protect donors, signers, and the integrity of the platform: reviewing causes, investigating reports, and sharpening the policies and tooling that keep Ardent Africa trustworthy. In a product where trust is the whole point, your judgment directly protects people’s generosity and their data.
What you’ll do
Review campaigns, organisations, and petitions for compliance, verification, and policy fit
Investigate reports and fraud signals and take timely, proportionate action
Improve our policies, playbooks, and moderation and verification tooling so decisions stay consistent and fast
Handle sensitive escalations with discretion, working across support, engineering, and partners
Watch for emerging abuse patterns and feed them back into product and detection
Keep clear, auditable case notes and uphold our data-privacy commitments
What you bring
2+ years in trust & safety, risk, fraud, compliance, or operations
Sharp judgment, strong attention to detail, and discretion with sensitive personal and financial data
Clear written communication for policy, case notes, and user-facing decisions
Calm under pressure and comfortable making high-stakes calls amid ambiguity
A process mindset: you spot what should become a rule or a tool, not a one-off
Bonus: experience with payments fraud, content moderation at scale, or KYC / verification
Protect the integrity of the platform at the front door. You will run verification and KYC for campaigners and organisations: confirming who is who with rigour and care, so donors can give with confidence and bad actors do not get through.
What you’ll do
Review and verify the identity and legitimacy of campaigners and organisations
Run KYC and due-diligence checks accurately, fairly, and at pace
Make sound, well-documented decisions on approvals, escalations, and rejections
Spot fraud and impersonation signals and escalate emerging risks
Help improve verification policies, checklists, and tooling for consistency and speed
Handle sensitive personal and financial data with discretion and compliance
What you bring
2+ years in KYC, verification, onboarding, compliance, or fraud operations
Sharp attention to detail and sound, consistent judgment
Discretion and care with sensitive personal and financial documents
Clear written communication for decisions and case notes
Comfort working to policy, SLAs, and quality standards
Bonus: fintech KYC/AML, identity verification, or African regulatory context
Lead how Ardent Africa keeps people and causes safe. You will own content moderation and trust & safety operations: setting policy, building the playbooks and tooling, and leading the team that protects donors, signers, and the integrity of the platform.
What you’ll do
Own and evolve our content and conduct policies and the standards behind them
Lead day-to-day moderation and trust & safety operations, quality, and SLAs
Build the playbooks, workflows, and tooling that make decisions fast and consistent
Handle the hardest escalations and set precedents with sound, documented judgment
Partner with product, engineering, and AI to scale detection and enforcement
Care for the wellbeing of moderators and the fairness of enforcement
What you bring
4+ years in trust & safety, content moderation, or risk: including leading people or programs
Strong policy judgment and experience setting and enforcing standards at scale
Calm, principled decision-making on high-stakes, sensitive cases
Experience building moderation workflows, quality programs, and tooling
Clear communication and discretion with sensitive material
Bonus: platform trust & safety, payments risk, or experience in African contexts
Stay one step ahead of fraud and abuse on a platform built on trust and money. You will detect, investigate, and disrupt bad actors: combining data, judgment, and pattern-spotting to protect donors, campaigners, and the integrity of every transaction.
What you’ll do
Monitor signals and investigate suspected fraud, abuse, and money-movement risk
Analyse patterns across accounts, campaigns, and transactions to surface organised abuse
Take timely, proportionate action and document decisions clearly
Partner with engineering and AI to turn findings into better detection rules and models
Tune the balance between catching bad actors and not blocking genuine users
Help shape risk policies, thresholds, and response playbooks
What you bring
3+ years in risk, fraud, payments risk, or analytical trust & safety
Strong analytical skills, including SQL or comparable data analysis
Sharp pattern-recognition and investigative judgment
Discretion with sensitive personal and financial data
Clear written communication for cases and recommendations
Bonus: payments/fintech fraud, AML, or chargeback experience
Keep Ardent Africa running smoothly as it scales. You will own the cross-functional operations (process, vendors, tooling, and execution) that let a small, fast team punch far above its weight across multiple markets.
What you’ll do
Design and run the operational processes that keep teams aligned and effective
Own vendor, tooling, and administrative operations across the company
Drive cross-functional projects and remove blockers between teams
Build lightweight systems, dashboards, and rituals that scale as we grow
Support finance, people, and compliance operations as needed
Find and fix inefficiencies before they become problems
What you bring
4+ years in operations, business operations, or program management
A track record of building scalable processes in fast-moving environments
Strong organisation, prioritisation, and cross-functional execution
Comfort with data, tooling, and continuous improvement
Excellent communication and stakeholder management
Bonus: startup, fintech, or multi-market African operations experience
Own the financial backbone of Ardent Africa. You will run accounting, reporting, controls, and planning: keeping the company financially healthy, transparent, and compliant, in a business where financial integrity is core to the trust we are built on.
What you’ll do
Own day-to-day accounting, bookkeeping, reconciliations, and the monthly close
Produce accurate financial reporting, budgets, forecasts, and cash-flow management
Build and maintain strong financial controls, processes, and audit readiness
Manage tax, statutory compliance, and relationships with auditors and authorities
Partner with leadership on planning, unit economics, and financial decisions
Uphold a clear separation between company finances and funds that belong to others
What you bring
5+ years in finance or accounting, including ownership of close and reporting
A professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CA, CPA) or equivalent
Strong knowledge of financial controls, reporting standards, and compliance
Meticulous accuracy, integrity, and discretion with financial data
Clear communication of financial reality to non-finance stakeholders
Bonus: fintech/payments finance, audit, or Ghanaian/African regulatory experience
Help Ardent Africa do the right thing everywhere we operate. You will own compliance and regulatory strategy across fundraising, payments, and data: building the policies and programs that let us scale across African markets responsibly and with integrity.
What you’ll do
Own our compliance program across fundraising, payments, KYC/AML, and data protection
Track regulatory requirements across the African markets we operate in and keep us ahead of them
Build and maintain policies, controls, and training that make compliance everyone’s job
Partner with product and engineering to build compliance in by design
Manage regulator, partner, and auditor relationships and reporting
Assess and advise on the compliance implications of new products and markets
What you bring
5+ years in compliance, regulatory, or risk roles, ideally in fintech or financial services
Strong knowledge of KYC/AML, payments, consumer-protection, and data-protection regimes
Experience building or scaling a compliance program
Sound judgment balancing risk, growth, and integrity
Clear communication with regulators, partners, and internal teams
Bonus: multi-market African regulatory experience, or nonprofit/fundraising regulation
Be the guardian of personal data at Ardent Africa. You will own our data-protection program: ensuring that the trust people place in us with their information is matched by rigorous, accountable, privacy-by-design practice across the company.
What you’ll do
Own our data-protection program, policies, and records of processing
Advise teams on privacy-by-design and assess new products and data flows
Run data-protection impact assessments and manage data-subject requests
Be the point of contact for data-protection authorities and uphold our obligations
Build privacy training and awareness across the company
Partner with security and engineering to protect personal data in practice
What you bring
5+ years in data protection, privacy, or a related legal/compliance role
Strong knowledge of data-protection law and frameworks (e.g. Ghana’s Data Protection Act, GDPR)
Experience running privacy programs, DPIAs, and data-subject processes
Sound, independent judgment and the standing to advise leadership
Clear communication that turns privacy obligations into practical guidance
Bonus: certifications (e.g. CIPP), fintech, or pan-African privacy experience
Be the legal partner to a fast-moving impact-tech company. You will cover the breadth of our legal needs (corporate, commercial, technology, and data protection) helping Ardent Africa move quickly and responsibly as it scales across the continent.
What you’ll do
Advise across corporate, commercial, technology, IP, and data-protection matters
Draft, review, and negotiate the contracts that run the business
Partner with product and engineering on legal-by-design for new features and markets
Manage corporate governance, entities, and external counsel
Identify and help manage legal and regulatory risk pragmatically
Translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance
What you bring
5+ years of legal practice (in-house or firm), ideally with tech or fintech exposure
Qualified to practise law, with strong commercial and contract experience
Working knowledge of technology, IP, and data-protection law
Pragmatism and a track record of enabling the business while managing risk
Excellent judgment, communication, and discretion
Bonus: payments/fintech, multi-market African, or nonprofit legal experience
Lead the work of the Ardent Africa Foundation. You will own program strategy and delivery: designing, running, and measuring the initiatives that turn the Foundation’s mission into real, accountable impact in communities across Africa.
What you’ll do
Set and own the Foundation’s program strategy, priorities, and roadmap
Design, launch, and run programs end-to-end: from planning to delivery to evaluation
Build the impact framework and report transparently on outcomes to stakeholders and donors
Manage partners, grantees, and community organisations on the ground
Steward program budgets and resources responsibly and accountably
Build and lead the team and partnerships that scale the Foundation’s reach
What you bring
7+ years in program leadership at a foundation, NGO, or social-impact organisation
A track record of designing and delivering programs with measurable impact
Strong experience with monitoring, evaluation, and transparent impact reporting
Excellent partner, stakeholder, and team leadership
Deep understanding of the African development and nonprofit landscape
Bonus: grant-making, fundraising, or multi-country program experience
Don’t see your role?
We’re always looking for exceptional people. Tell us how you’d make Ardent Africa better.
How we hire
A clear, respectful process
Typically two to three weeks from first hello to offer.
Apply
Send your application: a CV and a short note on why you’re a fit.
Intro call
A friendly 30-minute conversation to get to know each other.
Skills deep-dive
A practical exercise or portfolio review relevant to the role.
Team interview
Meet the people you’ll work with and dig into how we work.
Offer
We move quickly and keep you informed at every step.
Ardent Africa is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of background.