Responsibilities
- Setting the long-term design vision and leading large, end-to-end design projects in ambiguous problem spaces across wide product areas.
- Navigating tradeoffs and guiding strategic decisions in an opinionated way.
- Continuing to raise the bar for design craft and product excellence at Monzo, ensuring your work is a benchmark for quality and innovation across the organisation and our industry.
- Partnering with cross-functional leaders to define and execute product strategies that translate into actionable plans you help build and ship.
- Proactively addressing systemic challenges, reducing complexity, and creating better conditions for teams to deliver impactful work.
- Acting as a visible ambassador for Design, sharing your work and its impact across the company to maintain Design’s place at the heart of Monzo.
- Mentoring and levelling up designers across the discipline, fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and belonging.
Requirements
- You’re an expert in your craft, with deep expertise in a specific design discipline and strong foundational skills across all areas of product design.
- You have a proven track record of delivering high-impact design work that drives customer outcomes, influences company metrics, and achieves commercial goals.
- You’ll have excellent visual, UI and interaction skills, and the ability to think through complex interaction design.
- You’re curious about continuing to develop your craft and keep learning about new tools, ways of working, and technology.
- You thrive in ambiguity, leading teams to deliver in complex, fast-changing environments while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- You’re a strategic thinker who can shape product direction across multiple areas and translate organisational goals into clear, actionable plans.
- You’re a natural collaborator, skilled at working cross-functionally to improve ways of working and deliver greater value for customers and the business.
- You’re a role model for resilience, rational decision-making, and effective communication, even in challenging circumstances.
- You’re passionate about growing and shaping the Design team, whether through hiring, onboarding, or creating resources that scale your impact across the organisation.
- You’re pragmatic and proactive, always looking for ways to improve Design’s impact at Monzo while balancing the need to “get the job done”.
Benefits
- £110,000 - £125,000 + Equity
- We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
- We can sponsor your visa.
- Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
- £1,000 learning budget each year to use on 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.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — London, UK
Additional Information
- 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.
- All employees are given Macbooks.
- For fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.