Data Director, Growth and Marketing

Monzo; Cardiff; Remote; GBP 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Flexible working hours

£1,000 learning budget per year

MacBooks provided

Home‑office setup support

Job summary

Monzo is hiring a Data Director for Growth and Marketing to lead a data-driven approach across global marketing and product growth. You will oversee a diverse data team, work with senior leadership to set strategic direction, and build insights and data products that enable growth across markets and customer segments.

You will steer measurement, experimentation and decision-making processes, balancing product-driven growth with marketing initiatives, while partnering with finance and executives

Qualifications

• Experience leading Data teams at Director level or above.
• Hands-on Data Science background with ability to move between technical detail and business strategy.
• Deep experience in marketing measurement, experimentation and guiding growth decisions.
• Proven ability to set goals and define metrics in partnership with Finance.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into technical solutions and clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Define our global marketing strategy and product growth.
• Lead and nurture a diverse data team across Growth and Marketing.
• Set direction with leadership to craft insights, data products and intelligent systems.
• Balance markets and customer segments to inform investment decisions.
• Partner with ExCo and C-level leaders to influence strategy.

Skills

Leadership at director level

Hands-on data science

Marketing measurement

Experimentation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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

We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well aspersonal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest andcombine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through the company

London, Cardiff or UK Remote | £150,900 to £204,100 + stock options &benefits | Visa sponsorship & relocation available

About our Data Discipline

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. Data is central to how we understand our customers, shape our products, manage risk and grow the company sustainably. We believe in empowering teams with high-quality, trusted data and self-serve analytics, while creating space for Data practitioners to focus on the highest-impact questions, opportunities and decisions.

Our Data Discipline is deeply embedded in the company's product areas. Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and Machine Learning Engineers work in cross-functional squads alongside Engineers, Designers, Product Managers and other disciplines. This means Data is not a downstream service, and instead we shape strategy, challenge thinking, build the data foundations teams need to move quickly, and share accountability for customer and commercial outcomes.

Our Growth and Marketing Analytics team

We're looking for a Data Director to join our Growth and Marketing Collective here at the company. Our goal in Growth and Marketing is to build the company into a global brand people love. We're the team that finds exciting new ways to bring customers to the company and keep them engaged once they join. We create the features and cool stuff that gets everyone talking about us. We also figure out the best ways to communicate with our customers. Data is a driving force in everything we do, and this role will lead the team making sure our Growth and Marketing folks can easily use data to inform their every day decisions.

You'll play a key role by...

On day one, you'll develop and nurture a diverse data team to make smart marketing and product driven growth investments. You'll work closely with the Growth and Marketing collective leadership team to set the overall direction and work with your team to craft the insights, data products, and intelligent systems to realise those ambitions. You'll help us with the following questions and challenges:

• Define our global marketing strategy as well as our product growth one

• How to balance growing different markets and customer segments

• Advance our measurement precisions to grow our confidence in where to best invest next

• Balancing marketing with product driven growth

• Deeply understand network effects and the role they play

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You're excited about what we're doing at the company and have experience leading Data teams at Director level or above.

• You're an empathetic, inclusive leader who has hired, developed and retained high-performing Data teams, including individual contributors and managers.

• You have a hands-on Data Science background and can move comfortably between technical detail, commercial outcomes and customer strategy.

• You have deep experience in marketing measurement, experimentation and choosing the right methods to guide investment and growth decisions.

• You've led goal-setting across a company or division, defining clear metrics and targets in partnership with Finance.

• You can turn complex business challenges into technical solutions and clear, actionable recommendations.

• You build strong relationships across business areas and are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, including ExCo and C-level leaders.

• You're comfortable with ambiguity and use data to challenge thinking, navigate trade-offs and improve how teams make decisions

What’s in it for you...

• £150,900 to £204,100 + stock options & benefits

• We can help you relocate to the UK/Spain

• We can sponsor visas

• We offer 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

• We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

• Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at the company. At the company, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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