Data Director (Europe)

Monzo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Yearly salary review + pay increases

Share options

Flexible working hours

Work From Home opportunities

24 days holiday + bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Health insurance via AXA/Vitality

Learning budget

Job summary

Monzo is seeking a Data Director for EU expansion to lead the Data team and shape product strategy as the company grows across Europe.

You will sit on the EU Tech Leadership team, work with the EU CEO, Country Managers and the VP of Product, and partner with Finance to set ambitious, measurable goals.

This role is London or Barcelona based with distributed UK working; you’ll own learning loops, metrics, pricing levers, and the data foundations that enable fast market learning.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data teams at director level or above.
• Proven ability to define high-clarity metrics and align with Finance.
• Experience scaling data function in a new market, product line or business.

Responsibilities

• Lead the EU expansion data team and shape product strategy.
• Own measurement loops, define metrics, and set targets.
• Collaborate with EU leadership, Product, Engineering, and Finance.

Skills

Data leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional teamwork

People management

ExCo communication

Analytics

Job description

• Our EU Data team is a full-stack Data team, and together we’re building Monzo’s presence across Europe from the ground up. We’re entering new markets, learning what customers in each one need and finding product-market fit for Monzo
• Our mission is to make money work for everyone, everywhere
• As Data Director for EU expansion you’ll lead the Data team and shape our product strategy as we grow, deciding where we place our bets, working out what to measure before there’s a playbook, and making sure each new market learns fast enough to compound into the next
• You’ll work closely with EU leadership (our EU CEO, Country Managers and VP of Product) and Monzo’s global Leadership team (the CTO, Head of Data and other Data Directors), sitting on the EU Tech Leadership team and helping shape our global data strategy
• To do this well you’ll need to relish ambiguity, bringing analytical rigour and commercial judgement to bets that often have to be made before the data is complete
• You’ll own the full learning loop that EU expansion runs on, and you’ll co‑own the product development loop alongside EU Leadership, Product and Engineering
• . In a new market that often means building those loops from scratch, so you’re accountable not just for measuring what happens, but for framing the questions, defining what good looks like, and building the systems that answer them
• You’ll be a senior voice on the EU Tech Leadership team, the person who reframes the hard problems and puts a number on the trade‑off between what’s valuable for customers and what’s valuable for the business
• You’ll decide where Monzo should bet as we enter each new European market, sizing the opportunity and finding product‑market fit for the products and segments most likely to win
• You’ll use sharp commercial judgement to work through the ambiguity of building in a new market, from pricing and positioning to the levers that drive growth, bringing Data into strategy early so we shape priorities rather than react to decisions already made
• You’ll set the data strategy for EU and stand up the foundations each new market needs, from the events we log and the metrics and experiments we design to the forecasts markets learn from
• Lead the goal‑setting process for EU Expansion, bringing clarity to metric selection and target setting, in close partnership with Finance
• You’ll represent Data directly at the ExCo level, building a shared language of metrics and analytical reasoning so that Data drives EU strategy rather than reporting on it
• You’ll drive cross‑collective collaboration, spotting the high‑leverage connections across the business, for example how savings features drive engagement in our Wealth collective
• You’ll build, grow and retain a high‑performing, full‑stack Data team, where everyone shares accountability for product and business outcomes
• You’ll raise the performance bar, develop the next generation of Data leaders, and model an inclusive, high‑craft Data culture as we scale

Benefits

• Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
• Flexible working hours
• Work From Home Opportunities + we’ll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
• 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
• Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
• 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
• 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
• Unum Life Insurance
• Access to fertility and family‑forming health benefits via Fertifa
• Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle‑to‑Work Scheme

You lead through learning loops and hold a high technical bar, because you’ve built or owned the measurement a business relies on to set goals, run experiments and improve, with the judgement to know which methods and investments will pay offYou move comfortably from detailed metrics and data architecture to customer strategy, commercial outcomes and product‑market fit, and you’re happy to be the opinionated voice in the room that reframes the trade‑offYou change how organisations make decisions, not just how one project turns out, and you have experience of the cross‑collective collaboration that connects the dots across different business areasYou’re an empathetic people leader who has grown full‑stack Data teams of both individual contributors and managers, comfortable representing Data at ExCo and to C‑level peers, and you know what it takes to attract, develop and retain top talentYou have experience leading company‑wide or division‑wide goal‑setting, defining high‑clarity metrics, setting targets and partnering closely with FinanceYou’re a strategic data leader who has operated at Director level or above, and you’re energised by zero‑to‑one ambiguity, having built or scaled a data function in a new market, product line or business from an early stageThis role can be based in our London or Barcelona office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)