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About the Role
As Director of Board & Executive Hiring, you will lead the team responsible for hiring Monzo's most senior leaders, partnering directly with the Board, Executive Committee, and senior People leaders to build the leadership teams for Monzo's next stage of growth. This strategic role involves leading critical searches, empowering your team, aligning stakeholders, and shaping long-term leadership plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead Monzo's Board & Executive Hiring function, setting vision, strategy, and operating model.
- Establish a culture of excellence within the team, defining standards for quality, partnership, and candidate experience.
- Ensure hiring strategy supports Monzo's long-term growth and builds necessary future leadership capability.
- Partner with senior leaders to understand future needs and proactively shape hiring plans and succession strategies.
- Lead and develop a team of specialist Executive Recruiters and Sourcers through coaching and mentoring.
- Create an environment for the team to excel in complex senior hiring and stakeholder partnerships.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, influencing hiring decisions with market insight and talent intelligence.
- Facilitate alignment across complex stakeholder groups with differing priorities.
- Contribute to executive and Board succession planning, leadership capability, organizational design, and executive assessment.
- Ensure senior leadership hiring is integrated with Monzo's broader business strategy.
- Continuously evolve practices for identifying, assessing, and attracting senior leaders.
- Build and maintain relationships within the executive search ecosystem, leveraging external partners where valuable.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading Executive, C-suite, and Board hiring within a high-growth technology company or modern financial services organization.
- Experience in hands-on hiring of senior functional leaders, including Vice President and General Manager populations.
- Experience building trusted relationships with Executive Committees, Boards, and senior People leaders.
- Comfort advising a Board Chair and directly engaging executive candidates.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing team members.
- Ability to influence without hierarchy and build alignment across complex stakeholder groups.
- Experience partnering on organization design, executive succession planning, and leadership strategy.
- Understanding of executive compensation, including equity, and partnering with Reward teams on remuneration packages.
- Strong commercial judgment and use of market insight to influence leadership hiring decisions.
- Thrive in environments characterized by pace, ambiguity, and constant evolution.
- Commitment to candidate experience, inclusion, and building exceptional leadership teams.
Skills
- Executive Search
- C-suite Hiring
- Board Hiring
- Leadership Hiring
- Talent Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Organizational Design
- Succession Planning
- Executive Compensation
- Commercial Judgement
- Market Insight
- Candidate Experience
- Inclusion
Location
- London
Work Type
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Incentive Awards tied to performance
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to the UK
- Visa sponsorship
- Flexible working hours
- £1,000 learning budget annually
- Macbooks provided
- Home office setup support for remote workers
About the Company
- Monzo is a digital bank on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking complexities.
- Founded 10 years ago, Monzo has grown from a prepaid card to offering personal and business accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, kids accounts, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions in the UK.
- Known for hot coral cards, get-paid-early features, financial education, and award-winning customer service.
- Focuses on solving problems and changing lives through its products.
- Has become one of the UK's leading digital banks serving millions of customers across various financial products.
- Is scaling, expanding product offerings, and growing its international footprint.
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.
- Fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives.
- Embracing diversity is integral to the mission of making money work for everyone.