Data Science Manager, Growth

Data Science Manager, Growth

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo

About our Growth Data Team:

As we continue to scale, we're looking for a Product Data Science Manager to lead one of our key product areas for Growth.

As a Data Science Manager, you'll be working in an ever changing environment work in collaboration with the Product Manager and look after the product data strategy and lead a cross-functional team

You'll help us build and improve these for now and for our future roadmap. We're looking for a leader with hands-on experience, data driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers

You'll play a key role by…

• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts
• Help hire, develop and retain talented data people
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our growth and marketing strategy
• Bring data leadership and rigor to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life
• Liaise with marketing, product and engineering managers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

We would love to hear from you if…

• What we're doing here at Monzo excites you!
• You have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager- at least 2 of them managing a data team larger than 4 people
• You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
• Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
• You're excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business
• You're familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same.
• Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling
• Familiarity with marketing and advertising datasets from platforms such as Facebook and Google

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!

• 30 minute recruiter call
• 45 minute call with hiring manager
• 3 x 1-hour video calls with various team members

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on tech-hiring@monzo.com

What's in it for you:

We can help you relocate to the UK

We can sponsor visas

This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

And much more, see our full list of benefits here

Equal opportunities for everyone:

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We're 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.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage