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Regional Domain Manager - Rider Operations
Bolt Technology
Nairobi3w ago
About the role
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<p>What drives our operations? Our people! We're looking for a strategic and impact-driven Regional Domain Manager - Riders Ops to lead Bolt's Riders Operations across multiple markets within the region. This is an execution-focused role, directly accountable for driving the roll-out and impact of central Riders Operations initiatives at Regional Level.</p>
<p></text> </gh-intro> <gh-about-us> <title>About us</title> <text></p>
<p>With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.</p>
<p>We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.</p>
<p>Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!</p>
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<p>You will ensure that every central program - spanning Airports, Venues, Categories, Scheduled rides, B2G, and Rider engagement - is executed with excellence in your region. You will also channel structured market insights and feedback to central teams, ensuring global programs are designed and iterated with real market context.</p>
<p>As the accountable owner for regional Rider Domain KPIs, you will ensure markets meet their OKRs, remove blockers, and create clear alignment between local and central teams. This is a high-impact role suited for someone who thrives on making things happen and who can hold both local and central teams accountable for results.</p>
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<p><point>Drive the end-to-end execution of global Riders Ops initiatives in the region, ensuring every program (Airports, Venues, High-Value Categories, Low-Cost, Scheduled Rides, B2G, Rider Engagement) achieves its targets</point> <point>Translate global frameworks into action plans for markets, with clear accountability and timelines</point> <point>Monitor program delivery, escalating blockers early, and ensuring pivots or interventions are implemented without delay</point> <point>Translate central Riders Ops strategy into actionable regional priorities, ensuring consistency and scalability across markets</point> <point>Provide structured feedback from country teams, surfacing risks, regulatory challenges, or demand-side nuances to influence the design of future global programs</point> <point>Participate in domain-level business reviews (MBR, QBR), preparing performance commentary, root-cause analysis, and improvement actions</point> <point>Cascade central updates, frameworks, and priorities to Local Riders Ops leads</point> <point>Own regional domain KPIs and OKRs, ensuring markets deliver on agreed objectives (e.g. GMV share of airports, venues, categories, and scheduled rides; rider engagement and retention metrics; B2G pipeline)</point> <point>Track metrics rigorously, root-cause underperformance and drive corrective actions</point> <point>Enforce adoption of central tools, dashboards, and processes to ensure equity in execution</point> <point>Lead regional syncs, consolidate escalations, and ensure performance transparency</point> <point>Lead regional prioritisation reviews, ensuring resources are allocated to the highest ROI opportunities and aligned to central objectives</point> <point>Resolve prioritisation conflicts with GMs and central teams decisively, keeping execution on track</point> <point>Ensure regional execution is aligned with global priorities while addressing local market specifics (e.g., regulatory constraints, payment methods, supply availability)</point> <point>Upskill local Rider Ops teams, ensuring playbooks, templates, and training are deployed</point> <point>Build a culture of cross-market learning by sharing best practices, failures, and optimisations across your cluster</point> <point>Support local managers in building business cases for new initiatives, ensuring alignment with both central and regional objectives</point></p>
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<p><point>7+ years of experience in operations, program management, or category ownership with regional or multi-country scope</point> <point>Demonstrated success in leading multi-countries initiatives or programs with measurable impact</point> <point>Demonstrated ability to align central strategy with regional and local delivery</point> <point>Strong analytical and commercial mindset, with experience managing budgets, trade-offs, ROI</point> <point>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including senior leadership engagement</point> <point>High ownership and initiative, with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous contexts</point></p>
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<p>Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don't tick every box, please consider applying!</p>
<p></text> </gh-requirements> <gh-perks> <title>Why you'll love it here:</title> <bulletpoints></p>
<p><point>Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.</point> <point>Impact millions of customers and partners in 600+ cities across 50 countries.</point> <point>Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.</point> <point>Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.</point> <point>Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.</point> <point>Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid model.</point> <point>Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.</point></p>
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<p><text>*Some perks may differ depending on your location.</text></p>
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Perks & benefits
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