Description
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