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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Data Director, Payments

Monzo Cardiff Remote senior full-time

Salary

£150,000 - £200,000 per year

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Description

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

As a Data Director in Payments at Monzo, you would help shape seamless local payment experiences, ensuring customers can pay and get paid reliably while continuing to modernise the infrastructure that powers millions of transactions behind the scenes.

Responsibilities

  • Establish yourself as a trusted member of the Payments Leadership team, enabling better decisions across Payments and the wider Data Discipline
  • Co-drive Payments strategy and product decisions with Product and Engineering, bringing Data into discovery early to shape priorities and challenge thinking
  • Identify untapped opportunities for commercial optimisation, including across pricing, commercialisation, investment and customer growth
  • Set the data strategy for Payments, including the operating model, team priorities, architecture, technical debt and key metrics and drivers
  • Translate between technical, product and commercial perspectives to help teams make clear, high-impact decisions
  • Develop and scale a high-performing team of data professionals sharing accountability for product and business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Experience driving payments innovation and product strategy forward in a fast-growing business
  • Deep Data expertise with strong product and commercial judgement
  • Ability to move comfortably from detailed metrics or architecture discussions to customer strategy, pricing and business outcomes
  • Empathetic people leadership skills to build trust quickly, raise the performance bar and retain excellent talent
  • Experience growing and leading a full stack data team, including individual contributors and managers across Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering and Analytics
  • Experience collaborating with senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing and risk/control functions

Benefits

  • Base salary £150,000 - £200,000 + Equity + Benefits
  • Flexible working hours and trust 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

Skills

Required

  • Data expertise
  • product judgement
  • commercial judgement
  • people leadership
  • data team management

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/8146871

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