Monzo

data director

In short

This is a Director-level role leading the Data function for a UK fintech's EU market expansion, owning data strategy, measurement systems and goal-setting across new markets. The company is Monzo, a UK digital bank offering personal and business accounts, cards, savings, investment and pension products. It requires prior experience operating at Director level or above, having built or scaled a data function from early stage, and leading full-stack Data teams while representing Data at ExCo. The role is fully remote with visa sponsorship and relocation support offered.

About Monzo
Monzo offers personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16–17-year-olds, children's accounts, credit cards, savings, investment and pension services in the UK. It aims to make money work for everyone by solving customer problems through financial products and services.
Responsibilities
•Lead the Data team and shape product strategy for EU expansion
•Own the learning loop for EU expansion and co-own the product development loop with EU Leadership, Product and Engineering
•Frame questions, define success measures and build systems to inform decisions in new markets
•Reframe complex problems and quantify trade-offs between customer and business value
•Decide which European markets, products and customer segments to prioritize by sizing opportunities and finding product-market fit
•Apply commercial judgement to pricing, positioning and growth levers, bringing Data into strategy and priority-setting early
•Set the EU data strategy and establish the foundations for each new market, including event logging, metrics, experiments and forecasts
•Lead goal-setting for EU expansion, selecting metrics and setting targets in partnership with Finance
•Represent Data at ExCo and build a shared language of metrics and analytical reasoning
•Drive cross-collective collaboration and identify high-impact connections across the business
•Build, grow and retain a high-performing, full-stack Data team accountable for product and business outcomes
•Raise the performance bar, develop future Data leaders and foster an inclusive, high-craft Data culture
Requirements
•Operated at Director level or above
•Built or scaled a data function in a new market, product line or business from an early stage
•Comfortable moving between metrics and data architecture, customer strategy, commercial outcomes and product-market fit
•Built or owned the measurement systems a business uses to set goals, run experiments and improve
•Experienced in company-wide or division-wide goal-setting, defining clear metrics, setting targets and partnering with Finance
•Experienced in changing organisation-wide decision-making and cross-functional collaboration across business areas
•Empathetic people leader who has grown full-stack Data teams of individual contributors and managers
•Comfortable representing Data at ExCo and with C-level peers; experienced in attracting, developing and retaining top talent
Conditions
•Stock options and benefits
•Visa sponsorship and relocation are available
•Flexible working hours
•Annual learning budget of £1,000 for books, training courses and conferences
•Employees receive MacBooks; fully remote workers receive additional support for their home-work setup

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