Data Science Manager, Payments

Were on a mission to make money work for everyone.

Were 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 aspersonal 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 andcombine 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!

Were not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo

Hear from our UK team about what its like working at Monzo

London UK remote 102000 to 130000 Stock Options BenefitsHear from the team

About us:

Were here to make money work for everyone and were doing things differently. For too long banking has been obtuse complex and opaque.

We want to change that and build a bank with everyone for everyone. Our amazing community suggests features test the app and give us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves.

Were focused on solving problems rather than selling financial products. We want to make the world a better place and change peoples lives through Monzo.

About our Payments Team:

Our Payments Data team consists of over 15 people across 3 data disciplines: Analytics Engineering Data Analytics and Data Science.

Our Payments Collective exists to provide a platform for teams to launch banking products with confidence. We help to make Monzos global ambitions a reality enabling revenue and customer growth with a resilient self-serve banking platform.

What youll be working on:

Youll work closely with the Product and Engineering teams in an agile product environment. Youll champion the use of data bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on enabling revenue and customer growth.

You will manage a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts working together with Analytics Engineers to drive product innovation and youll get to see the impact of all your work in the product changes we make.

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And were great believers in powerful real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data folk the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

Your day-to-day

• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional Data Scientists and Analysts working on making Monzo world class at Payments products and experience
• Help hire develop and retain talented Data people
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders across Monzo to deliver products for our customers
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life
• Define the long term strategy of the team and create comprehensive roadmaps for all the projects within your team
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our Payments strategy
• Work and advise on Paymentss global expansion strategy
• Liaise with Product and Engineering managers to make sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

Our technology stack

OurData teams mission is to Enable Monzo to Make Better Decisions Faster

At the core of this mission sits our data platform. Were great believers in powerful real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. Our engineers collect analytics events from their microservices and upload these into our Data stack for analysis. We optimise for simplicity and re-usability all our data lives in one place and is made available via our data warehouse in Google BigQuery.

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies (note we do not expect applicants to have prior experience of all them):

• Google Cloud Platform for all of our analytics infrastructure
• dbt and BigQuery SQL for our data modelling and warehousing
• Python for data science
• Go to write our application code
• AWS for most of our backend infrastructure

You should apply if:

• What were doing here at Monzo excites you!
• You have experience of managing a team of Data Scientists
• You are a strong strategic data leader and are passionate about using data to improve and inform business decisions
• You have strong experience working with executive or C-level peers an managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
• You know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent
• Youre excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing ever evolving business
• You have strong product knowledge and have built data products previously
• Youre 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 in Payments is a plus but not required.

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 initial call
• 3 x 1-hour video calls including a technical case study

Whats 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 were 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 1000 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 were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo were 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.

Were 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.

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