Monzo

tech recruitment manager

In short

This role leads tech recruitment strategy and manages a team of recruiters at Monzo, a UK fintech bank. It combines hands-on senior-level hiring (recruiting Senior Managers and Directors) with coaching recruiters and partnering with VPs and executives on hiring plans. It demands significant in-house tech recruitment experience, people management of recruiters, and strong stakeholder influencing skills. The position is fully remote.

About Monzo
Monzo offers personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16–17-year-olds, a free kids account, credit cards, savings, investment services and pension consolidation to customers in the UK. The company aims to make money work for everyone and solve problems through banking.
Responsibilities
•Lead hiring strategy for the assigned tech business area
•Partner with executives and senior stakeholders to shape hiring plans, organisational design and hiring strategy
•Work with Workforce Planning and Business Hiring leadership to understand upcoming demand and focus the team on high-impact hiring
•Manage, coach and develop a team of Recruiters, supporting their growth and hiring outcomes
•Set team priorities, manage workload and allocate resources as business needs evolve
•Personally manage requisitions and partner with Hiring Managers to design assessment processes and deliver strong candidate experiences
•Recruit senior leaders and individual contributors, leading by example through hiring delivery
•Use data, market insights and candidate feedback to improve hiring processes and influence decisions
•Embed inclusive hiring practices and improve hiring quality, efficiency and candidate experience
•Source talent, monitor competitor activity and share market insights with Hiring Managers and the team
•Shape hiring strategies to attract diverse, high-quality candidates in competitive markets
•Share best practices with other Hiring Leaders, solve cross-functional hiring challenges and help shape the team's development
Requirements
•Significant in-house recruitment experience within tech functions such as Product or Engineering
•Experience managing or coaching Recruiters
•Comfortable combining people leadership with hands-on recruitment
•Experience partnering with senior stakeholders, including VPs and executives, influencing hiring strategy and constructively challenging where needed
•Experience recruiting across levels, from mid-level hires to Senior Manager and Director roles
•Strong sourcing skills, including attracting passive candidates
•Uses data and market insights to influence hiring decisions and improve recruitment processes
•Passionate about inclusive hiring and excellent candidate experiences
•Builds trusted relationships quickly and thrives in fast-moving, collaborative environments
Nice to have
•Managing hiring teams across multiple locations or hybrid/remote environments
•Recruiting tech roles in a high-growth startup or scale-up
•Partnering with workforce or capacity planning teams
•Building or improving recruitment processes at scale
Conditions
•Competitive Salary
•Incentive Awards tied to performance
•Flexible working hours
•£1,000 Annual learning budget for books, training courses and conferences
•MacBook provided; fully remote workers receive extra support for their work-from-home setup
•The application process has three stages: Recruiter Call, Initial Call and Loop Interviews; it should take around 3–4 weeks, with scheduling flexibility

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