Data Director - Payments

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

Our Payments team ⭐

At Monzo, payments are more than just moving money from A to B. They are a core part of how customers experience trust, speed, and financial control every day. As a Data Director in Payments , you would help shape seamless local payment experiences, ensuring customers can pay and get paid reliably while continuing to modernise the infrastructure that powers millions of transactions behind the scenes.

The role also sits at the intersection of Monzo’s broader ambition to build truly borderless banking and expand into new markets. That means designing products and payment capabilities that work effortlessly across geographies, currencies, and customer needs, while helping Monzo scale into new markets with the same simplicity and transparency that defines the brand today.

You’ll partner closely with Product , Engineering , and Design to help shape Monzo’s payments strategy to make Monzo's global ambitions a reality, enabling revenue and customer growth with a resilient, self-serve banking platform.

To succeed, you should be excited about solving tough, ambiguous business problems with analytical rigour, commercial viability and execution effectiveness

Your day-to-day

• Establish yourself as a trusted member of the Payments Leadership team, enabling better decisions across Payments and the wider Data Discipline
• Co-drive Payments strategy and product decisions with Product and Engineering, bringing Data into discovery early to shape priorities and challenge thinking
• Identify untapped opportunities for commercial optimisation, including across pricing, commercialisation, investment and customer growth
• Set the data strategy for Payments, including the operating model, team priorities, architecture, technical debt and key metrics and drivers
• Translate between technical, product and commercial perspectives to help teams make clear, high-impact decisions
• Develop and scale a high-performing team of data professionals sharing accountability for product and business outcomes.

You should apply if:

What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!

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

The Interview Process

After an informal ~30 min recruiter call, our interview process involves 2 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!

1. Initial Call (1 hour) You'll meet with one of our senior data leaders.
2. Loop Stage - This is one stage with 4 interviews (totalling 4 hours) split between a collaboration with one of our engineers on a technical exercise, as well as behavioural and leadership interviews. You can have this all in one day or split these across multiple days, whichever your prefer.

Our average process takes around 3-4 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 View email address on hireskys.com

How we work :

Locations & Flexible Working:

Our main tech hub is in London, but our engineers live everywhere in the UK— from Brighton to the Western Isles.

We value meeting in person but there’s no pressure to come into the office, even if you're nearby. We believe you'll do your best work if you are where you want to be. If you live outside of London and we ask you to come into the office, Monzo will support you with the costs. ✨

Our offices are naturally social, especially Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which happen to line up with our twice-weekly Monzo lunches & treat Thursdays ️. Teams also schedule time together often for work and play – in or around the office, or online.

Set up a work schedule that delivers impact and fits your life.

At Monzo, we value connections, flexibility, and wellbeing. We keep our meetings during core hours to stay connected and believe in maintaining work/life balance.

You’ll be empowered to manage your work in a way that suits you and your team, giving you the freedom for children drop-offs and pick-ups, walking your dog or adventurous cat, avoiding peak commuting times or gym slots, appointments, or supporting your family in an emergency. ✨

Work the way that works for you with Monzo!

What’s in it for you

Base salary £150,000 - £200,000 + Equity + 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