Staff Data Scientist

Monzo as a Staff Data Scientist, where you will shape and lead the data strategy for a large domain, identify and frame strategically important problems, and partner with senior leaders across various teams. You will establish measurement strategies, set best practices for experimentation and decision science, and remain hands-on in exploring complex data and building models. Additionally, you will coach and mentor data scientists and analytics engineers, raising Data Science standards across the organization.

Shape and lead the data strategy for a large domain or collective, connecting customer and commercial goals to a clear portfolio of high-impact Data Science work.

Responsibilities

• Identify, frame and lead strategically important problems where the path is ambiguous, dependencies span teams, and decisions involve meaningful customer, commercial, regulatory or operational trade-offs.
• Partner with senior leaders across product, engineering, ML, design, research, risk and operations, bringing an independent technical perspective that influences strategy and turns it into measurable outcomes.
• You remain a highly credible hands-on practitioner with SQL and Python, while raising standards and multiplying the impact of experienced colleagues
• You bring deep expertise across several Data Science disciplines and can set the technical direction for work involving significant complexity, uncertainty or risk

Requirements

• You communicate complex ideas, assumptions and risks with clarity, and hold a consistently high bar for analytical quality, governance and reproducibility
• You have an exceptional track record of leading complex, business-critical Data Science work from ambiguous problem framing through to measurable outcomes
• You repeatedly create clarity across organisational boundaries, resolve difficult dependencies and turn long-term strategy into decisive action
• You have shaped strategy across a large product or business domain and can influence senior leaders through clear, independent judgement

Benefits

• Enjoy a range of benefits, including a yearly salary review, flexible working hours, and a learning budget.

GBP 124,000 - 165,000