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title: 'Data Director, EU at Monzo'
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# Data Director, EU at Monzo

- **Company:** Monzo
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain / Cardiff London OR, United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/8258208

## Job description

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

We’re 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 as [personal](https://monzo.com/current-account/personal) and [business](https://monzo.com/business-banking) bank accounts, we offer [joint accounts](https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account), [accounts for 16-17 year olds](https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17), a [free kids account](https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s) and [credit cards](https://monzo.com/flex) in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also [save](https://monzo.com/savings), [invest](https://monzo.com/investments)and [combine their pensions](https://monzo.com/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!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

📍 London, Barcelona, or UK Remote | 💰 £150,900 to £204,100 + stock options & [benefits](https://monzo.com/careers/) | ✅ Visa sponsorship & relocation available

## About our Data Discipline

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. Data is central to how we understand our customers, shape our products, manage risk and grow Monzo sustainably. We believe in empowering teams with high-quality, trusted data and self-serve analytics, while creating space for Data practitioners to focus on the highest-impact questions, opportunities and decisions.

Our Data Discipline is deeply embedded in Monzo’s product areas. Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and Machine Learning Engineers work in cross-functional squads alongside Engineers, Designers, Product Managers and other disciplines. This means Data is not a downstream service, and instead we shape strategy, challenge thinking, build the data foundations teams need to move quickly, and share accountability for customer and commercial outcomes.

Our EU team ⭐

Our EU Data team is a full-stack Data team, and together we're building Monzo's presence across Europe from the ground up. We're entering new markets, learning what customers in each one need and finding product-market fit for Monzo.

Our mission is to make money work for everyone, everywhere. As Data Director for EU expansion you'll lead the Data team and shape our product strategy as we grow, deciding where we place our bets, working out what to measure before there's a playbook, and making sure each new market learns fast enough to compound into the next.

You'll work closely with EU leadership (our EU CEO, Country Managers and VP of Product) and Monzo's global Leadership team (the CTO, Head of Data and other Data Directors), sitting on the EU Tech Leadership team and helping shape our global data strategy. To do this well you'll need to relish ambiguity, bringing analytical rigour and commercial judgement to bets that often have to be made before the data is complete.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by...

You'll own the full learning loop that EU expansion runs on, and you'll co-own the product development loop alongside EU Leadership, Product and Engineering. In a new market that often means building those loops from scratch, so you're accountable not just for measuring what happens, but for framing the questions, defining what good looks like, and building the systems that answer them. You'll be a senior voice on the EU Tech Leadership team, the person who reframes the hard problems and puts a number on the trade-off between what's valuable for customers and what's valuable for the business.

Shaping product and commercial strategy:

- You'll decide where Monzo should bet as we enter each new European market, sizing the opportunity and finding product-market fit for the products and segments most likely to win.
- You'll use sharp commercial judgement to work through the ambiguity of building in a new market, from pricing and positioning to the levers that drive growth, bringing Data into strategy early so we shape priorities rather than react to decisions already made.

Owning the data strategy and the learning loops:

- You'll set the data strategy for EU and stand up the foundations each new market needs, from the events we log and the metrics and experiments we design to the forecasts markets learn from.
- Lead the goal-setting process for EU Expansion, bringing clarity to metric selection and target setting, in close partnership with Finance.

Changing how decisions get made:

- You'll represent Data directly at the ExCo level, building a shared language of metrics and analytical reasoning so that Data drives EU strategy rather than reporting on it.
- You'll drive cross-collective collaboration, spotting the high-leverage connections across the business, for example how savings features drive engagement in our Wealth collective.

Building and leading a high-performing team:

- You'll build, grow and retain a high-performing, full-stack Data team, where everyone shares accountability for product and business outcomes.
- You'll raise the performance bar, develop the next generation of Data leaders, and model an inclusive, high-craft Data culture as we scale.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

What we're doing here at Monzo excites you, and the idea of helping take it across Europe especially so!

- You're a strategic data leader who has operated at Director level or above, and you're energised by zero-to-one ambiguity, having built or scaled a data function in a new market, product line or business from an early stage.
- You move comfortably from detailed metrics and data architecture to customer strategy, commercial outcomes and product-market fit, and you're happy to be the opinionated voice in the room that reframes the trade-off.
- You lead through learning loops and hold a high technical bar, because you've built or owned the measurement a business relies on to set goals, run experiments and improve, with the judgement to know which methods and investments will pay off.
- You have experience leading company-wide or division-wide goal-setting, defining high-clarity metrics, setting targets and partnering closely with Finance.
- You change how organisations make decisions, not just how one project turns out, and you have experience of the cross-collective collaboration that connects the dots across different business areas.
- You're an empathetic people leader who has grown full-stack Data teams of both individual contributors and managers, comfortable representing Data at ExCo and to C-level peers, and you know what it takes to attract, develop and retain top talent.

🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps

- 30 minute recruiter call
- 45 minute call with the hiring manager
- 4 x 1-hour video calls with various team members, including the General Manager for Payments
- A meet and greet with a member of EU Executive Committee

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.

What’s in it for you:

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 £150,900 to £204,100 + stock options and[benefits](https://monzo.com/careers#benefits)

✅ We can sponsor visas

📍This role can be based in our London or Barcelona office, but we're 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 £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

➕ Plus lots more! [Read our full list of benefits](https://monzo.com/careers/).

#LI-JH1  #LI-Remote

## Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re 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](https://monzo.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion), 2026 [Diversity and Inclusion Report](https://monzo.com/blog/our-2026-diversity-and-inclusion-report) and 2025 [Gender Pay Gap Report.](https://monzo.com/blog/gender-pay-gap-report-2025)

We’re 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.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

## About Monzo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Monzo is a UK-based digital bank offering personal and business current accounts, savings, loans, investments, and insurance through a mobile-first platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series I, unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (offices also in Cardiff, Dublin, and Barcelona)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Tom Blomfield, Gary Dolman, Jonas Huckestein Templestein, Jason Bates, Paul Rippon (current co‑CEOs are Diana Layfield and Conor Walsh)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Digital banking and financial services (consumer finance, payments, lending)
- Target customers: B2C (personal banking) and B2B/SMB (business banking); primarily UK‑based, with growing EU presence
- Mission or purpose statement: “Building a bank you’d be proud to use” – focused on solving problems, not selling financial products, and making money work for everyone.

## Products & Services
- **Personal Current Account**: Mobile‑banking account with budgeting tools, spending insights, and automated savings. Features real‑time notifications, card controls, and biometric authentication.
- **Business Current Account**: Separate account for small businesses with expense categorisation, invoicing, and integration with accounting software.
- **Savings Pots**: Sub‑accounts inside the app to save toward goals; includes interest‑bearing options.
- **Credit Cards & Loans**: Personal credit cards, overdrafts, and Flex (buy‑now‑pay‑later style borrowing). Also offers personal loans.
- **Investments**: Share dealing and ISA products (introduced in 2024).
- **Insurance**: Home, travel, and gadget insurance (underwritten by partners).
- **Pension Management**: Tools to manage and consolidate pension pots within the app.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5.2 B (current, per Tracxn; latest round Series I)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue £1 B+ (as of 31 Mar 2025), total funding $1.81 B
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Passion Capital, Accel (lead investors in previous rounds)
- **Growth Signals**: 15 million+ personal and business customers; headcount of ~3,786 (YoY growth 26.8% per Revelio Labs); expansion into EU via Dublin office; launched investment and pension products in 2024; continued lending product innovation (Flex, credit cards).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Community‑driven product development** – Customers actively suggest features, test the app, and give feedback, creating strong brand loyalty.
- **Mobile‑first architecture** – Built from scratch as a digital‑only bank, offering a seamless user experience with real‑time budgeting and spending insights.
- **Regulatory innovation** – One of the first UK challengers to obtain a full banking licence, enabling deposit‑taking and lending.
- **Open‑source culture** – Engages with the engineering community through open‑source contributions and transparent development.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Deepening lending and investment offerings, and building a wealth management suite.
- **International growth**: Scaling in the European market (office in Barcelona, Dublin hub, and hiring for EU‑focused roles).
- **Embedded finance**: Enabling third‑party services to use Monzo’s banking infrastructure.
- **Operational efficiency**: Using AI/ML for risk management, fraud detection, and personalised financial recommendations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Open, collaborative, and inclusive; regular community events, yoga, and lunch‑and‑learns; contributes to open‑source software.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Office‑based roles allow occasional remote work; distributed workers receive equipment budget. Roles in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Barcelona, or UK‑remote.
- **Visas**: Monzo sponsors visas for tech, engineering, and product roles due to Home Office regulations.
- **Learning**: £1,000 annual budget for books, courses, and conferences; regular knowledge‑sharing sessions.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Annual salary reviews; performance‑based incentive awards (cash/equity mix); pension (4% Monzo contribution, matching up to 6%); private healthcare; life insurance (4x salary); 26 days holiday + bank holidays (or opt‑out for 34 days); 8‑week sabbatical every 5 years; generous family leave (primary caregiver 26 weeks full pay, secondary 13 weeks full pay); paid sick leave; cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- **Office Perks**: Free breakfast, hot lunches twice a week, snacks, and drinks in London office.

## Sources
1. [monzo.com/careers](https://monzo.com/careers) – Benefits, visa policy, flexible working, culture
2. [monzo.com/about](https://monzo.com/about) – Company overview, mission, customer count
3. [tracxn.com/d/companies/monzo](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/monzo/__HguZJzK7Q_qZsyIz1Y4VwV75H5fHjDMtGaXPelPAxpU) – Funding, valuation, revenue, employee count, founders, CEOs
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/7963253) – Open roles, location details
5. [reveliolabs.com/companies/monzo-bank/employees](https://www.reveliolabs.com/companies/monzo-bank/employees/) – Headcount growth

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