Director of Data (Payments)

Join Monzo, a leading digital bank, as the Director of Data (Payments). In this role, you will shape Monzo's payments strategy, drive product decisions, and identify opportunities for commercial optimization. You will establish yourself as a trusted member of the Payments Leadership team, develop and scale a high-performing team of data professionals, and translate between technical, product, and commercial perspectives. This position offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a range of benefits including health insurance, a learning budget, and a pension scheme.

Establish yourself as a trusted member of the Payments Leadership team, enabling better decisions across Payments and the wider Data Discipline.

Responsibilities

• Co-drive Payments strategy and product decisions with Product and Engineering, bringing Data into discovery early to shape priorities and challenge thinking.
• Set the data strategy for Payments, including the operating model, team priorities, architecture, technical debt and key metrics and drivers.

Requirements

• You combine deep Data expertise with strong product and commercial judgement
• You have experience collaborating with senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing and risk/control functions
• You are an empathetic people leader who can build trust quickly, raise the performance bar and retain excellent talent
• You have experience driving payments innovation and product strategy forward in a fast-growing business
• You can move comfortably from detailed metrics or architecture discussions to customer strategy, pricing and business outcomes
• You have experience growing and leading a full stack data team, including individual contributors and managers across Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering and Analytics

Pay

USD 150,000 - 200,000