Director of Product Design, Core Banking

Posted on: 
September 5, 2024

About Monzo

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. 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 Monzo ❤️

Hear from our team

📍London OR UK Remote | 💰£140,000 - £165,000 + Benefits

Design Team at Monzo

⭐Our Design team is a team of about 70 Product Designers, User Researchers, and Brand Designers working across the entire Monzo customer experience.

Our design team has written a number of blog posts which you can find here.

Key Responsibilities

  • Reporting into the VP of Design, Vuokko Aro and engaging closely with the wider exec team.
  • Becoming a part of Monzo’s design leadership team, responsible for scaling the team, developing people and raising the bar for design quality and consistency across the entire experience.
  • Driving trajectory-altering business impact through shaping a core product experience and driving organic growth through a product that customers love.
  • Managing a small team of seasoned, senior product designers— and work closely with user researchers and brand designers—but won’t be managing through layers of management.

What We're Looking For

  • You care deeply about design having commercial impact along with meeting customer needs.
  • You care about collaborating closely with senior product leadership and the executive team.
  • Scaling our Design System to its next level of maturity so that it efficiently continues to support our growing suite of products across a growing number of markets.
  • You have a deep understanding of design craft, how to evaluate design success and realistic expectations of what’s impactful and achievable.

What’s in it for you

  • 💰£140,000 - £165,000➕share options.
  • ✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
  • ✅ We can sponsor your visas
  • 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

Application Process

The application journey has 3 key steps:

  1. Recruiter call
  2. Design leadership presentation
  3. Final loop (Leadership & Impact interviews)

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo, which you can read here.

If you have any questions or need assistance during the application process, please reach out to nataliehills@monzo.com.

Equal Opportunities at Monzo

Diversity and inclusion are a priority at Monzo. We strive to provide equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic.

We encourage applicants to use their preferred name when applying. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all individuals to thrive at Monzo. You can read more about our initiatives in our blog2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report, and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report

We are an equal opportunity employer and all applicants will be considered for employment.

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