Director of Data, Payments at Monzo | CRF, GB | Rezi

Director of Data, Payments at Monzo

Director of Data, Payments

Monzo · CRF, GB

1 months ago

Director of Data, Payments

Monzo · CRF, GB

a month ago
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About the Role

As a Data Director in Payments, you will help shape seamless local payment experiences, ensuring customers can pay and get paid reliably while modernizing the infrastructure that powers millions of transactions. This role is key to Monzo's ambition to build borderless banking and expand into new markets, designing products and payment capabilities that work across geographies, currencies, and customer needs.

Responsibilities

  • Establish yourself as a trusted member of the Payments Leadership team, enabling better decisions across Payments and the wider Data Discipline.
  • Co-drive Payments strategy and product decisions with Product and Engineering, bringing Data into discovery early to shape priorities and challenge thinking.
  • Identify untapped opportunities for commercial optimisation, including across pricing, commercialisation, investment and customer growth.
  • Set the data strategy for Payments, including the operating model, team priorities, architecture, technical debt and key metrics and drivers.
  • Translate between technical, product and commercial perspectives to help teams make clear, high-impact decisions.
  • Develop and scale a high-performing team of data professionals sharing accountability for product and business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Experience driving payments innovation and product strategy forward in a fast-growing business.
  • Ability to combine deep Data expertise with strong product and commercial judgement.
  • Comfortable moving from detailed metrics or architecture discussions to customer strategy, pricing and business outcomes.
  • Empathetic people leader who can build trust quickly, raise the performance bar and retain excellent talent.
  • Experience growing and leading a full stack data team, including individual contributors and managers across Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering and Analytics.
  • Experience collaborating with senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing and risk/control functions.

Skills

  • Data Science
  • Analytics Engineering
  • Machine Learning Engineering
  • Analytics
  • Product Strategy
  • Commercial Judgement
  • Payments Innovation

Location

  • London
  • UK Remote

Work Type

  • Remote
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Director

Salary/Compensations

  • £150,000 - £200,000

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance to the UK
  • Visa sponsorship
  • Flexible working hours
  • £1,000 annual learning budget

About the Company

  • We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from complicated traditional banking.
  • Our product offering has grown significantly over 10 years in the UK, including personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions.
  • We focus on solving problems and changing lives through our products, known for hot coral cards, get-paid-early features, financial education, and award-winning customer service.
  • Our Data discipline is centralized but embedded in product areas, with Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Analysts working in cross-functional squads.
  • Data is central to understanding customers, shaping products, managing risk, and growing Monzo sustainably.
  • We empower teams with high-quality, trusted data and self-serve analytics.

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.
  • We are an equal opportunity employer.