Data Director, EU
About the role
Lead the EU expansion Data function to shape product strategy, data foundations, and cross-functional decision-making as Monzo grows across Europe.
Responsibilities
- Own the full learning loop that EU expansion runs on, and co-own the product development loop with EU Leadership, Product and Engineering; build loops from scratch and frame the questions, define what good looks like, and build the systems that answer them.
- Shaping product and commercial strategy: decide where to bet in new European markets, size opportunity, and find product-market fit; apply sharp commercial judgement on pricing, positioning and growth levers.
- Owning the data strategy and learning loops: set data strategy for EU, establish events, metrics, experiments, forecasts; lead goal-setting for EU Expansion in partnership with Finance.
- Changing how decisions get made: represent Data at ExCo, build a shared language of metrics, drive cross-collective collaboration to connect business areas (e.g., how savings features drive engagement).
- Building and leading a high-performing team: build, grow and retain a full-stack Data team; raise performance bar and model inclusive culture.
Qualifications
- Strategic data leader with Director level+ experience, especially scaling data functions in new markets or product lines.
- Ability to bridge detailed metrics, data architecture, customer strategy, and commercial outcomes; comfortable guiding trade-offs.
- Experience leading company-wide goal-setting, defining high-clarity metrics and partnering with Finance.
- Proven track record in cross-collective collaboration and shaping data-driven decision-making across an organization.
- Empathetic people leader with experience growing full-stack data teams, including ICs and managers, and representing Data at ExCo/C-level.
Skills
Benefits
- Stock options
- Visa sponsorship & relocation
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget of £1,000 per year for books, courses, conferences
- Macbooks and home-work setup support for remote workers
- Additional benefits listed in full company benefits

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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