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# Staff Data Scientist at Monzo

- **Company:** Monzo
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain / Cardiff London OR, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/8232732

## 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 or Barcelona | UK remote | 💰 £124,400 - 165,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + [Benefits](https://monzo.com/careers/) | [Technology](https://monzo.com/blog/technology) — [Data](https://monzo.com/blog/data)

We’re looking for a Staff Data Scientist excited to help build the bank of the future. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong commercial judgement and can apply both to Monzo’s most important and complex challenges.

At Monzo, we’re building a bank that is fair, transparent and a delight to use. We’re growing extremely fast and have over 11 million customers in the UK. We’ve built a product that people love and more than 80% of our growth comes from word of mouth and referrals.

Enable Monzo to Make Better Decisions, Faster

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. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker, which gives data scientists the headspace to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you’ll lead efforts on strategically important, business-critical problems. You’ll apply judgement in areas of organisational or technical complexity, steward initiatives end-to-end, and focus your hands-on contribution where it can create the greatest impact. You’ll be a trusted technical partner to senior leaders, raise the bar for Data Science across Monzo, and build capability in others through coaching, reusable approaches and clear standards.

Our Data Science team ⭐

We are excited to be expanding and are hiring across our Data Science teams. Whether your interests lie in Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Fincrime, Wealth or Core, we are looking for versatile people who can contribute across squads and collectives. While we allocate teams after the interview process, we aim to match your skills and aspirations with the most suitable role. Throughout the process, you will meet team members from across our Data Science collectives, who will guide you through the opportunities available. Join us and be part of shaping our future!

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

- 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
- 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
- Establish measurement strategies and metric maps that clarify how customer behaviour, product changes and business outcomes connect, enabling teams to test assumptions and make better decisions faster
- Set and evolve best practices for experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, optimisation and decision science, choosing methods that are proportionate to the decision and its risks
- Remain hands-on where your expertise is most valuable: exploring complex data, designing analyses and experiments, building models or prototypes, and resolving the hardest technical questions
- Steward critical data products and initiatives end-to-end, ensuring they are robust, well-governed, clearly documented and adopted by the people who need them
- Balance pace and analytical rigour, making pragmatic trade-offs while protecting the quality, reproducibility and interpretability of your work
- Raise Data Science standards across Monzo through technical direction, proposals, reviews, reusable methods and thoughtful challenge
- Coach and mentor data scientists and analytics engineers, using live projects and wider discipline initiatives to build sustainable capability beyond your own individual output

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

- You have an exceptional track record of leading complex, business-critical Data Science work from ambiguous problem framing through to measurable outcomes
- You have shaped strategy across a large product or business domain and can influence senior leaders through clear, independent judgement
- You bring deep expertise across several Data Science disciplines and can set the technical direction for work involving significant complexity, uncertainty or risk
- You repeatedly create clarity across organisational boundaries, resolve difficult dependencies and turn long-term strategy into decisive action
- You communicate complex ideas, assumptions and risks with clarity, and hold a consistently high bar for analytical quality, governance and reproducibility
- You remain a highly credible hands-on practitioner with SQL and Python, while raising standards and multiplying the impact of experienced colleagues

The interview process:

Our interview process involves:

- Recruiter Call
- Initial Call
- Technical assessment
- Final Interviews
- Business Fit/Collaboration
- Case Study
- Technical Interview

Our average process takes around 2–3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process.

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. [You can read them here.](https://monzo.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-on-using-ai-to-ace-an-interview-at-monzo)

For more insight into the hiring experience at Monzo, check out our blog post written by one of our Recruiters - [Data Hiring at Monzo](https://monzo.com/blog/2022/03/21/data-hiring-at-monzo).

What’s in it for you:

💰 £124,400 - £165,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits

✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK or Spain

✅ We can sponsor visas

📍 This role can be based in our London or Barcelona offices, but we’re also 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

➕ And much more - see our full list of [benefits](https://monzo.com/careers/).

If you prefer to work part-time, we’ll make this happen whenever we can — whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance.

#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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