Data Science Manager, Growth & Marketing

Monzo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is seeking a Data Science Manager to drive growth initiatives within the marketing team. You will lead a dedicated data team, providing insights that shape our marketing strategy. The ideal candidate has significant experience in data science management, stakeholder engagement, and using various data tools such as Python and SQL. This role offers flexible working options and a supportive culture.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Learning budget of £1,000 annually

Visa sponsorship

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager.
• Experience managing a team larger than 5 people.
• Familiarity with data science tools like Python and SQL.
• Experience working with marketing and advertising datasets.

Responsibilities

• Lead a dedicated data team for marketing strategy.
• Generate insights to guide growth and marketing.
• Hire and develop talented data professionals.

Skills

Data Science leadership

Stakeholder management

Marketing Mix Modelling

Python

SQL

Tools

Looker

Data analytics tools

Job description

Overview

We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re moving away from the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown in the UK over the last 10 years. As well as personal 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 coming. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and award-winning customer service, we have a history of creating special moments for our customers. We’re not about selling products — we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.

About us: we’re here to make money work for everyone and we’re doing things differently. Banking should not be obtuse, complex, or opaque. We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our community suggests features, tests the app, and gives us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves. We focus on solving problems, not selling financial products, to make the world a better place and change people’s lives through Monzo.

Growth & Marketing Data Team

As we scale, we’re looking for a Data Science Manager to lead one of our key Growth areas—Marketing. You’ll collaborate with the award-winning Marketing team and lead a dedicated data team to help execute Monzo’s marketing strategy. You’ll be responsible for building and improving our current capabilities and shaping the future roadmap. We’re seeking a hands-on, data-driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and inspire both the team and our customers.

You’ll play a key role by…

You’ll work closely with leaders across Brand, Paid, and Content, championing the use of data to drive ideas, measurement, optimisation, and learning through a rigorous analytical approach.

You’ll grow and support your team by hiring new members and developing their skills. You’ll manage a mix of Data Scientists and Data Analysts, and work alongside Analytics Engineers to deliver impactful data products. You’ll see the direct results of your work in the performance of our marketing.

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the company. We believe in powerful, real-time analytics and empowering the wider business. Today, 90% of day-to-day data decisions are made through self-serve analytics in Looker, giving data teams the space to focus on bigger, more impactful business questions and analyses.

Your day-to-day

• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts
• Hire, develop, and retain talented data professionals
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our growth and marketing strategy
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development. Build a strategic understanding of the business and structure complex projects to bring them to life
• Liaise with marketing, product, and engineering managers to ensure we collect the right data for meaningful business insights

We would love to hear from you if…

• What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!
• You have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager, managing a data team larger than 5 people
• You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
• You have strong experience working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniority and disciplines—especially in a tech organisation
• You’re excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast-growing, ever-evolving business
• You're familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation, and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same
• You have experience with Marketing Mix Modelling and other measurement approaches
• You’re familiar with marketing and advertising datasets from platforms such as Facebook and Google

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves three main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!

• 30-minute recruiter call
• 45-minute call with the hiring manager
• Three 1-hour video calls with team members

Our average process takes around 3–4 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process, but if you have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us at [e-mail].

What’s in it for you

We can help you relocate to the UK

We can sponsor visas

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).

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.

A learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses, and conferences

And much more, see our full list of benefits here

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Equal opportunities

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 Monzo. At Monzo, 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, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 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.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don’t need full or birth names at application stage