Data Science Manager

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

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

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 ❤️

We’re here to make money work for everyone and we're 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.

We're focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products. We want to make the world a better place and change people's 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 Monzo's global ambitions a reality, enabling revenue and customer growth with a resilient, self-serve banking platform.

What you’ll be working on:

You’ll work closely with the Product and Engineering teams in an agile product environment. You’ll 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 you’ll 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 we're 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.

• 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 Payments’s global expansion strategy
• Liaise with Product and Engineering managers to make sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

Our Data team 's mission is to Enable Monzo to Make Better Decisions, Faster

At the core of this mission sits our data platform. We're 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 Big Query.

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 Big Query 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 we’re 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 and managing…