Product Director, Core Banking (Accounts)

📍London or Remote UK | 💰£140,000 to £170,000 + Stock Options + Benefits | Product at Monzo | Hear from the team

About the team: 

Core Banking is responsible for the current account that makes money work for 12 million customers. This includes the Personal Account, Joint Account, Under 16s and 16 - 17 accounts, and Subscriptions (Extra, Perks and Max). It’s responsible for well-loved features like the 1p Savings Challenge, Pots, Trends and more.

What you’ll be working on:

As a Product Director within Core Banking, you’ll lead a team of Product Managers to define and deliver a strategy to make everyday money magical for everyone. You’ll be responsible for our main account types (personal, joint, U16s, 16-17) and core value props like travel, shared finances, rewards and loyalty, and money management (including payday, bills, budgeting, insights and more).

What you'll do:

• Lead the charge: build a product vision and strategy for your area, ensuring alignment with Monzo’s goals and an exceptional customer experience. 
• Develop a team: build and coach a high-performing product team to obsess over customers, innovate, move quickly and ultimately enjoy their work.
• Communicate effectively: get people inspired by the product vision and share the right context with the right people at the right time.
• Collaborate seamlessly: partner with engineering, design, data, research, marketing and other teams across Monzo to get stuff done.
• Have impact: define, deliver and measure the impact of the customer-focused experiences you create.

You should apply if:

• You are a seasoned product leader, and have a track record of leading high-performing product teams at a fast-growing consumer tech company to:
• build highly engaging (daily/weekly) experiences for millions of customers
• deliver company trajectory-changing impact
• (nice-to-have) build a multi-market product, with a proven ability to balance priorities across geographies
• You're data-driven and commercial, and have a track record of collaborating with data scientists to define key metrics, run experiments, and deliver business impact.
• You can systematically break down and solve complex problems.
• You have good judgement, and you’re able to make good decisions in complex situations where there’s often no “right answer”. 
• You have the urge and resilience to challenge the status quo and make things better, and are full of creative ideas for how to do so.
• You can work effectively with a diverse range of people and working styles - spanning engineering, design, data, user research, marketing, legal and compliance - to get stuff done.
• You’re a great storyteller, who is able to motivate, energise and inspire people towards a common goal.
• You’re passionate about building value for customers and not just achieving business results, and are excited about our mission at Monzo.
• You’re intellectually honest about your work's performance, continually striving for improvement. 
• You’re a fast learner, humble and curious, and enjoy learning every day and sharing your knowledge and experience.
• You’ve managed a team of PMs, have a proven ability to coach and develop others, and can provide clear and constructive feedback to your team and other disciplines.
• You can get hands-on when necessary, to fill gaps - in people or experience - and set a practical example for what great looks like. 

The interview process:

Our interview process involves 4 main stages: 

• Recruiter Call 
• Initial Call with Hiring Manager 
• Final Loop, consisting of x3 hour long interviews to assess Project Walkthrough, Case Study and Leadership
• A final stage with a VP or CPO within the Product team

Our average process takes around 5-6 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 but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on tech-hiring@monzo.com

What’s in it for you:

💰 £140,000 to £170,000 depending on experience ➕ stock options & benefits 

✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK 

✅ We can sponsor visas 

📍This role can be based in our London 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

➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here

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.

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