Data Science Manager

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

As a Data Science Manager at Monzo, you'll lead a team of Data Scientists and other Data professionals within one of our product or business areas, combining people leadership with strategic data leadership and close partnership with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow a team of exceptional Data Scientists and other Data professionals.
• Hire, coach and retain talented people while creating an environment where they can develop and do their best work.
• Set the Data Science direction for your area and identify where data can have the greatest customer and business impact.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and senior stakeholders to shape strategy and influence product direction.
• Bring analytical rigour to complex and ambiguous problems and help teams turn them into clear, actionable opportunities.
• Ensure teams are using the right analytical approaches, from experimentation and causal inference through to statistical modelling and machine learning.
• Help connect Data Science work to measurable customer, product and commercial outcomes.
• Work with Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning and other Data disciplines to ensure teams have the data, tooling and infrastructure they need.
• Contribute to the wider Data Science discipline at Monzo, helping us continually raise the bar for how we work.

Requirements

• Significant experience managing and developing Data Scientists.
• Strong strategic data leader who uses data to influence decisions and direction.
• Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-growing and evolving organisation.
• Strong understanding of Data Science approaches including experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis and machine learning.
• Comfortable with tools and languages such as Python and SQL, and understand how to choose the right analytical approach for a problem.
• Can build credibility with Product, Engineering and senior business leaders and influence without relying on authority.
• Strong product judgement and experience using Data Science to shape product development and strategy.
• Know how to balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision-making and business impact.
• Experience helping Data Scientists develop their technical, product and leadership capabilities.

Benefits

• Salary: £100,000 to £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
• 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
• Relocation assistance to the UK
• Visa sponsorship
• Distributed working within the UK, with ad hoc meetings in London