Lead Data Scientist
About the role
Lead Data Scientist role at Monzo with focus on data strategy, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration to improve customer engagement and product decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the data strategy and continue to evolve Monzo for our customers to make it magically simple to manage money day-to-day
- Develop and execute best practices for experimentation enabling our team to make data informed decisions
- Collaboratively set standards and work with data across Monzo, fostering knowledge sharing and continuously improving data practices.
- Work closely with leaders in product, engineering, design and research to build and iterate on product ideas
Qualifications
- Experience leading data science initiatives and mentoring other data scientists/analytics engineers
- Strategic thinking about commercial products and data-enabled decision making
- Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Experience with experimentation and advanced data techniques
- Ability to understand data nuances and lay foundational knowledge for new products/features
- Strong perspective on measuring success and challenging the status quo
Skills
Benefits
- Benefits (full list available at Monzo careers page)
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
- Relocation assistance to the UK or Spain
- Visa sponsorship
- Flexible working hours
- Part-time arrangements available on request
About Monzo Bank
A bank as smart as your phone.
YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!
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