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About the Role
As a Data Science Manager at Monzo, you will lead a team of Data Scientists and other Data professionals, combining people leadership with strategic data leadership and close partnership with senior stakeholders. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to ensure data plays a central role in understanding problems, making decisions, and developing products. Your role is crucial in shaping strategy, influencing product direction, and driving impactful data-driven decisions.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of exceptional Data Scientists and other Data professionals.
- Hire, coach, and retain talented people while creating an environment where they can develop and do their best work.
- Set the Data Science direction for your area and identify where data can have the greatest customer and business impact.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders to shape strategy and influence product direction.
- Bring analytical rigour to complex and ambiguous problems and help teams turn them into clear, actionable opportunities.
- Ensure teams are using the right analytical approaches, from experimentation and causal inference through to statistical modelling and machine learning.
- Help connect Data Science work to measurable customer, product, and commercial outcomes.
- Work with Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning, and other Data disciplines to ensure teams have the data, tooling, and infrastructure they need.
- Contribute to the wider Data Science discipline at Monzo, helping to continually raise the bar for how work is done.
Requirements
- Significant experience managing and developing Data Scientists.
- Strong strategic data leadership experience, using data to influence decisions and direction.
- Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority.
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-growing and evolving organisation.
- Strong understanding of Data Science approaches including experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
- Comfortable with tools and languages such as Python and SQL, and understanding how to choose the right analytical approach for a problem.
- Ability to build credibility with Product, Engineering, and senior business leaders and influence without relying on authority.
- Strong product judgement and experience using Data Science to shape product development and strategy.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision-making and business impact.
- Experience helping Data Scientists develop their technical, product, and leadership capabilities.
Skills
- Data Science
- Analytics Engineering
- Data Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Experimentation
- Causal Inference
- Statistical Modelling
- Python
- SQL
Location
- London
- UK remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- £100,000 to £130,000
Benefits
- Incentive Awards tied to performance
- Relocation assistance to the UK
- Visa sponsorship
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year
About the Company
- Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking complexities.
- 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 known for its hot coral cards, get-paid-early feature, financial education on social media, and award-winning customer service.
- The company focuses on solving problems and changing lives through its offerings.
- Data is central to Monzo's decision-making and product development processes.
- Data teams include Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning, collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and other business teams.
- Data Scientists are embedded in product and business areas, using various analytical methods to understand customers, identify opportunities, and influence product strategy.
- Monzo has a strong culture of data-driven decision-making, with a focus on powerful, accessible analytics and self-serve capabilities through Looker.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion are a priority at Monzo, with support for all people to grow.
- Monzo fosters an inclusive environment for all people to do their best work.
- Monzo is an equal opportunity employer.
- 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.
- Applicants are encouraged to use their preferred name during the application process.