Working at a huge
multinational company that
pays very well is surely the
goal for most young Nigerian
graduates. More specifically,
working at Facebook is one
plum job, many would go to
great lengths to land.
According to Forbes, Mark
Zuckerberg is worth $54.4
billion. His company which was
established in 2004, employs
about 3,000 people.
The pay structure at Facebook
is indeed mouth-watering,
software engineers are paid
about $106,521 – $175,597
yearly, data scientists earn
between $84,234 – $188,434,
while product designers with
the company earn a little less
than that.
Not surprisingly, there are
about 11 Nigerians working with
Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook,
and at least 7 of them are in
the top echelons of the
company. Here they are:
1. Chukwuemeka Afigbo
Chukwuemeka Afigbo formerly
worked at Google
According to Crunchbase, a
database for tech heads, Emeka
is a Strategic Product
Partnerships manager for
Facebook. He is focused on
helping developers in Africa and
the Middle East succeed by
leveraging Facebook’s platforms
, products and initiatives.
Emeka has a passion for growing
the tech ecosystem in emerging
markets. Prior to Facebook ,
Emeka led Google developer
community initiatives in Sub-
Saharan Africa as part of the
Africa and Middle East
Developer Relations team. He
played a huge role in Mark
Zuckerberg’s recent visit to
Nigeria.
2. Ebele Okobi
Ebele Okobi formerly worked at
Yahoo
Ebele was one of the
moderators of the Town Hall
meeting held in Nigeria with
Mark Zuckerberg and Nigerian
developers and entrepreneurs.
She is Facebook’s Head of
Public Policy, Africa. Before
joining Facebook, Ebele was the
founding Global Head and Senior
Legal Director for Human
Rights at Yahoo, where she led
global efforts to address the
legal and policy issues related
to privacy, free expression and
access.
3. Morin Oluwole
Morin Oluwole has worked at
different positions within
Facebook
Since joining Facebook in 2006,
Morin has held several diverse
roles. She is currently the
Luxury Vertical Lead for
Facebook/Instagram.
She has been the business lead
and chief of staff to the vice
president of global marketing
solutions at and walks among
power women around the world,
who are relentlessly charting
their own paths to success.
4. Francis Ebong
Francis Ebong has had a great
career so far
Francis Ebong is the Director,
Online Operations at Facebook.
The graduate of the George
Washington school of business,
formerly worked as Director,
Business Operations, Postmates
and from 2011-2014 he has
worked with Apple from
2011-2014, and as a logistics
director in the US Navy.
5. Ime Archibong
Ime Archibong formerly worked
with IBM
Ime Archibong is the Director
of Global Products Partnership
at Facebook. Ime has led
several of the company’s major
media related partnerships,
including those in the music
industry and online video space.
Prior to joining Facebook, Ime
was an Advanced Technology
Business Development
Professional at IBM where he
focused on the licensing of
IBM’s global portfolio of
storage research technology.
Ime started his career at IBM
as a software engineer.
6. Nmachi Jidenma
Nmachi Jidenma is the founder
of CPA an award winning website
Nmachi Jidenma works at
Facebook as its Global Payments
& Commerce Partnerships
Manager where she manages
partnerships with financial
services companies and develops
new product initiatives at the
intersection of payments,
commerce, social networking
and advertising.
Prior to Facebook, she worked
as a Global Business
Development Manager for
PayPal’s billion dollar.
7. Laurence Aderemi
Laurence Aderemi built
Moni a money transfer
Previously, Aderemi was
Google’s head of mobile
strategic partnerships in
Europe. He joined Google as
part of the AdMob acquisition
where he led strategy and
business development for
EMEA. Before AdMob, he was
European general manager at
Yahoo.
He is now the Head of
Payments and Commerce
Partnerships for Facebook
Global.
We wish them, greater careers
ahead.
