Description
We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.
As a Director of Product Design at Monzo, you'll lead design across Payments, one of Monzo's most important and fast-evolving multi-market business areas.
You'll partner closely with senior leaders across Product and Engineering to shape strategy, set direction, and drive exceptional execution across your area.
Key responsibilities:
- Set the strategic direction and design vision for your area, inspiring teams to think bigger and bolder, whilst aligning with Monzo goals and mission.
- Partner with the leadership team for your area to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and turn strategy into impactful execution.
- Build and nurture a high-performing design team - investing in their growth, wellbeing, and long-term success.
- Maintain an exceptional quality bar across all design work through clear feedback and coaching, helping designers and teams consistently deliver best-in-class experiences.
- Create an environment where feedback is open, craft is celebrated, and design quality continues to evolve across the organisation.
- Act as a champion for design at Monzo, influencing how design thinking shapes our products and culture.
Requirements:
- You've led design strategy and vision across complex product areas, helping teams navigate ambiguity and deliver meaningful customer and business impact.
- You're comfortable operating at multiple altitudes, from defining long-term direction to driving high-quality execution.
- You build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Research and Commercial, and know how to influence senior stakeholders through clarity, insight, and craft.
- You have a strong point of view on product design and consistently raise the bar for quality, systems thinking, and customer experience.
- You've built and led high-performing design teams, creating environments where people can grow, do exceptional work, and have meaningful impact.
- You know how to scale design influence across an organisation, shaping product direction, ways of working, and culture beyond your immediate team.
Benefits:
- £140,000 - £165,000 + Equity + Benefits
- We'll help you relocate to the UK
- We can sponsor your visa
- 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)
- Flexible working hours and trust-based work culture
- £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training, and conferences
- Full remote setup support, including equipment and workspace essentials