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Carry1st

Growth Manager, Platform

Cape Town , South Africa
full-time Remote

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Lead marketing strategies and partnerships with major publishers, driving player acquisition and engagement across Sub-Saharan Africa in a fast-paced gaming environment.

Carry1st is Africa’s leading games publisher and monetization platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. We launch, localize, and scale games for global audiences, operate the region’s fastest-growing digital top-up shop, and offer a payments platform that boosts revenue by up to 10x in markets with low card usage but high demand for digital content.

Our partners include Activision, EA, Riot Games, and NetEase. Backed by investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Sony, Riot Games, and Nas, we’re solving hard problems at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and digital commerce.

We’re looking for a highly driven and detail-oriented Growth Manager, Platform to lead our partnership with a major Chinese gaming publisher. You’ll be responsible for ensuring exceptional client satisfaction, executing high-impact marketing campaigns with profitability, and driving player growth across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strong project manager with client-facing experience, a solid business acumen and a passion for mobile games to play a pivotal role in one of Africa’s most dynamic growth sectors.

You will...

  • Own and manage the end-to-end relationship with a strategic Chinese gaming publisher, ensuring alignment on goals, communication, budget and reporting
  • Plan, execute, and optimize marketing campaigns that drive player acquisition, engagement, and revenue across Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Act as the primary point of contact for client teams, managing timelines, expectations, feedback loops, performance and budget reporting
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Carry1st’s creative, growth, influencer, press and analytics teams to deliver top-tier execution on marketing initiatives
  • Monitor campaign performance and player behavior to extract insights and recommend improvements to enhance results
  • Manage multiple stakeholders and projects simultaneously, maintaining precision and speed in a fast-paced environment

Requirements

What makes you a great candidate?

  • 2+ years’ experience in client management, marketing, or partnerships—ideally within the gaming, mobile apps, or digital media industry
  • Proven ability to manage complex relationships and multiple stakeholders at large accounts
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; you are confident presenting, problem-solving, and managing expectations with clients
  • Meticulous attention to detail and an obsession with quality execution
  • High work ethic and intensity—you thrive in a high-performance environment
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to own and deliver complex campaigns on time and to brief
  • Deep understanding of consumer behavior and mobile marketing in Africa is a strong plus
  • Mandarin speaking is preferred, to facilitate communication with the publisher

Benefits

What will it be like to work at Carry1st?

Carry1st is a fast-paced and dynamic place to work. Our team is diverse and global as we operate fully-remotely across 25+ countries. At Carry1st, you will have the opportunity to…

  • Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
  • Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech
  • Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
  • Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create 

Some additional perks…

  • 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  

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us!

Learn more about Carry1st…

  • Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
  • VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
  • Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Home Office Stipend: Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
  • Learning Budget: Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
  • Social events: Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
  • Paid Time Off: Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day
Carry1st

Carry1st is the leading publisher of social games and interactive content in Africa. We work with studios across the globe - from Addis Ababa to Sofia to New York City - to level up their games and scale them in dynamic, new markets. To serve our customers in Africa, we’ve built out a proprietary payments and ecommerce experience which gives our users the ability to pay for digital content, even when they don’t have a credit card. Our team is as diverse as our partners - hailing from 14 countries and companies like King, Rovio, Wargaming, The Carlyle Group and Morgan Stanley. We’re a passionate, international team that works hard and has a sense of humor. We value originality of thinking, thoughtfulness and courage. Carry1st is a fully remote, distributed company and we are looking for the best people to join us as we rapidly innovate and scale.

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