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Senior Legal Counsel, Martech and Data

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. 

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 ❤️

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

 

📍 London or Remote (UK)  | 💰up to £115,000 (based on experience level) + Benefits 

What we’re looking for

We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel - Martech & Data to join our team at Monzo and help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. This role will report to the Director of Commercial Legal, and is part of the Legal team in the Legal & Board Governance Collective at Monzo.

In this role, you’ll work with a wide range of collectives and disciplines across the organisation, in particular you’ll work closely with the teams driving growth and launching new products. You’ll work at all levels in the organisation and with a wide-range of stakeholders from Product Managers and Designers, to Operations professionals and software Engineers. 

What you’ll do:

  • Be a trusted adviser and partner to the Growth and Marketing teams, helping them deliver product-led organic growth. 
  • Deliver commercial, media, marketing and data protection advisory support,  particularly for product development work and compliance initiatives relating to our digital advertising ecosystem. 
  • Work closely with first and second line risk teams to help the team identify and manage legal and regulatory risks relating to growth initiatives and product launches. 
  • Prioritise thoughtfully across various activities to continuously operate with the highest impact.
  • Develop and implement processes and procedures to increase the efficiency and scalability of commercial, data protection and marketing legal advice across the Monzo Group.
  • Deliver training, share insights from your work, and help educate others on commercial, data protection and marketing issues.
  • Manage relationships with our external legal counsel and work with the Chief of Staff of the Legal & Board Governance Collective to ensure we are optimising our legal spend on commercial matters, and obtaining best value. 

You should apply if: 

  • You are a technically excellent and experienced commercial lawyer with a solid grounding in marketing/advertising, technology and data protection law with a minimum of around 5 years relevant post qualification experience.
  • You have a strong understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem with a focus on digital platforms.
  • You have experience of advising on data protection requirements, particularly for product development work and compliance initiatives.
  • You have experience of dealing with, or advising, intermediaries in a regulated financial services context.
  • You have a genuine interest in advertising, consumer finance and data protection law.
  • You are a team player and natural collaborator who is passionate about effecting change whilst at the same time being goals-focussed and impact-driven.
  • You are a strategic thinker, a strong communicator and a keen problem solver who knows how to assess risk and recommend solutions that balance business and risk perspectives 
  • You are willing to jump in and handle a wide range of legal issues, even outside your core areas of expertise in a proactive, and resourceful way, and can sensibly assess when best to engage external counsel in a cost-effective way
  • You enjoy horizon scanning and taking a proactive view of risks and quickly and independently identify mitigating actions.
  • You are comfortable operating at all levels of the organisation up to the Executive Committee and liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • You welcome diverse perspectives, think rigorously and critically and aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions
  • You’ve an open and curious mind, you are passionate about the intersection of banking and technology, and what we are doing here at Monzo excites you!

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves 4 main stages: 

  • Recruiter call (potentially followed by an initial call with a member of the Legal team)
  • First stage role specific interview
  • Second stage values interview
  • Coffee chat 

Our average process takes around 2-4 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 business-hiring@monzo.com.

Your compensation package:

💰 up to £115,000 base salary (based on to experience)➕ stock options

✅ 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 

#LI-TK1 #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, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.

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.

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