Data Science Manager

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

🚀 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 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 exciting things to come beyond. 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 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 ❤️

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About the Position

Data is at the heart of how we make decisions and build products at Monzo. Our Data teams bring together Data Science, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics and Machine Learning, working closely with Product, Engineering and other teams across the business.

Our Data Scientists are embedded within product and business areas across Monzo, where they use experimentation, causal inference, statistical modelling, machine learning and analytics to understand our customers, identify opportunities and influence the direction of our products and strategy.

As a Data Science Manager, you'll lead a team of Data Scientists and other Data professionals within one of these areas, combining people leadership with strategic data leadership and close partnership with senior stakeholders.

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Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow a team of exceptional Data Scientists and other Data professionals.
• Hire, coach and retain talented people while creating an environment where they can develop and do their best work.
• Set the Data Science direction for your area and identify where data can have the greatest customer and business impact.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and senior stakeholders to shape strategy and influence product direction.
• Bring analytical rigour to complex and ambiguous problems and help teams turn them into clear, actionable opportunities.
• Ensure teams are using the right analytical approaches, from experimentation and causal inference through to statistical modelling and machine learning.
• Help connect Data Science work to measurable customer, product and commercial outcomes.
• Work with Analytics Engineering, Machine Learning and other Data disciplines to ensure teams have the data, tooling and infrastructure they need.
• Contribute to the wider Data Science discipline at Monzo, helping us continually raise the bar for how we work.

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Requirements

• Significant experience managing and developing Data Scientists.
• Strong strategic data leadership who uses data to influence decisions and direction.
• Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-growing and evolving organisation.
• Strong understanding of Data Science approaches including experimentation, causal inference, statistical analysis and machine learning.
• Comfortable with tools and languages such as Python and SQL, and understand how to choose the right analytical approach for a problem.
• Ability to build credibility with Product, Engineering and senior business leaders and influence without relying on authority.
• Strong product judgement and experience using Data Science to shape product development and strategy.
• Experience helping Data Scientists develop their technical, product and leadership capabilities.

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We Offer

• Competitive salary: £100,000 to £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits
• Relocation assistance to the UK
• Visa sponsorship
• Flexible working hours and trust to work at times that suit you and your team
• 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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About the Company

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, 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.

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