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Director, Strategy

London

🚀 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 | 💰Salary is dependant on experience + Benefits |

The Role

We’re looking for a Director of Strategy who will partner closely with our ExCo to tackle key strategic priorities for the business to further accelerate our growth. 

You will be part of a small and high impact team which works across the company: the Strategy and Special Projects team reporting to the VP of Strategy who reports to the CEO. You can expect that you will come to work on a wide range of projects and your key customers will be the C-Suite and GMs of our collectives: borrowing, business banking, wealth, and core banking in the UK, EU and US. You will also be working very closely with our finance, product, data, and marketing teams.

To succeed, you should be excited about solving tough business problems with analytical rigour, commercial viability and execution certainty, leading project-based teams, collaborating with partners and colleagues, and operating in a high pace and ambiguous environment. We’d want you to apply, if you are underwhelmed by the status quo of banking/financial services today and are interested in bringing your brainpower, commercial and quantitative skills and grit to creating something better. 

You should apply if:

  • You have extensive work experience (10+years) and established yourself as a strong strategic business leader. 
  • You spent 5+ years in internal strategy and / or management consulting and showed progression 
  • You have made the transition into a line role and driven successful business outcomes (e.g. leading a product line and growing it, establishing / growing strategic partnerships)
  • Your super power is solving complex problems and building winning strategies that can be executed 
  • You are a great project and team leader
  • You are excellent at managing and influencing stakeholders
  • You are commercially minded
  • You are a self starter, ambitious leader who is driven by impact 
  • You thrive in ambiguity
  • You are humble but excited by what we’re doing at Monzo

The following would be a bonus:

  • MBA
  • Experience working in a high growth company, particularly in financial services, banking or another regulated industry
  • Specific expertise in the financial landscape of the US or Europe and the UK banking market

Interview Process:

Our interview process consists of three main stages with a total of five interviews:

  • Recruiter Call (15 minutes)
  • Initial Call (30 minutes)
  • Final Interviews:
    • A live case study interview (60 minutes)
    • A leadership interview (60 minutes)
    • One behavioral interview (60 minutes)

What’s in it for you:

💰Salary is dependant on experience ➕ stock options 

📍This role will be based out of our London office next to Liverpool Street station in a hybrid approach of office based. 

⏰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 

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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, 2023 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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