About the Role
Monzo is building and scaling a multi-market European bank. The EU Engineering organisation is central to this ambition, responsible for launching, growing, and operating across Europe. This role involves navigating product-market fit, customer growth, regulatory requirements, localisation, and operational scale. You will work horizontally across the company, partnering with various teams to bring Monzo's products to new markets and deliver excellent local customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed engineering organisation spanning multiple squads, markets, and countries.
- Build and develop Engineering Managers, Senior Engineering Managers, and senior technical leaders.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data, Research, Operations, Risk, and Compliance leaders to define and execute Monzo's European strategy.
- Drive alignment and execution across numerous collectives to ensure Europe receives the capabilities it needs to succeed.
- Shape how Monzo approaches market expansion, localisation, regulatory requirements, and multi-market product development.
- Influence priorities and outcomes across teams that do not directly report to you.
- Create clarity and momentum in highly ambiguous problem spaces where ownership and solutions are not always obvious.
- Design and evolve organisational structures, operating models, and planning processes that allow Monzo to scale effectively across Europe.
- Help identify and validate product-market fit in new markets while balancing short-term delivery and long-term strategic investments.
- Partner closely with executive leadership to shape the future of Monzo's European business.
Requirements
- Experience leading large engineering organisations through other leaders, including Engineering Managers, Senior Engineering Managers, and senior individual contributors.
- Successfully operated in highly complex organisations where outcomes depend on collaboration across many teams and functions.
- Exceptional at building relationships and influencing without direct authority.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity where goals, ownership, or priorities are not yet fully defined.
- Experience scaling organisations through periods of rapid growth, organisational change, or market expansion.
- Enjoy solving organisational and business problems, not just technical ones.
- Ability to balance strategy and execution, translating ambitious goals into tangible outcomes.
- Comfortable making decisions in environments where there is rarely a perfect answer.
- Strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams and developing future leaders.
- Energised by the challenge of building something new and helping shape the future of Monzo's international expansion.
Location
- London
- Remote (UK)
Work Type
- Distributed working within the UK
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Senior Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- £170k - £225k
Benefits
- Equity
- Relocation assistance to the UK
- Visa sponsorship
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
About the Company
- Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from complicated and confusing traditional banking.
- Over the last 10 years in the UK, Monzo has grown its product offering significantly, now including personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions.
- Monzo is expanding across Europe, entering the next phase of building and scaling a multi-market European bank.
- The EU Engineering organisation works horizontally across the company, partnering with teams like Payments, Core Banking, Growth, Wealth, Customer Operations, Fincrime, and Platform.
- Monzo values connections, flexibility, and wellbeing, keeping meetings during core hours and promoting work-life balance.
- Monzo's main tech hub is in London, but engineers live across the UK.
- Offices are social, with team gatherings and Monzo lunches/treats.
Equal Opportunity
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
- Monzo is an equal opportunity employer.
- Diversity and inclusion are a priority, fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do their best work.
