Lead Product Manager, Core Banking

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Lead the strategy and drive product growth for Monzo's Core Banking services, supporting 13 million customers and aiming to scale to 20 million.

🚀 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 ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo


 

📍London or Remote in the UK | 💰 £95,000-£140,000 ➕ plus stock options &  Benefits

  

⭐Our Core Banking team

Core Banking is responsible for the current account used by 13 million customers. That includes creating compelling value propositions for different audiences (including Joint, Under 16s and 16 to 17 accounts), designing the overall app structure, the day-to-day money management experience (including features like Trends, Salary Sorter, Bills Pots, and more) and other value propositions like Travel. The collective is also responsible for Subscriptions, which are paid upgrades that unlocks extra benefits and functionality that help customers make financial progress.

We’re now gearing up for our next phase of growth, from 13 million to 20 million customers.

 

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

Ensuring that we continue to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers, and drive continued customer growth and engagement with Monzo Subscriptions. 

You’ll be expected to own the strategy for your area, lead one product squad yourself (currently Subscriptions), and also mentor other PMs with their own product squad.

 

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you can…

  • Create a product strategy for your area, balancing work to create long-term growth and engagement, and work to hit short-term targets.
  • Collaborate with engineering, design, data, user research and marketing to identify and validate new opportunities.
  • Lead the planning process and associated roadmap prioritisation ensuring alignment within the team and with wider business goals and objectives. 
  • Create delightful experiences that solve user needs and pain points.
  • Work with cross-functional partners (engineering, design, data, user research and marketing) to ensure projects are delivered on time and as planned, as well as with legal, compliance and regulatory affairs where relevant
  • Communicate effectively. You get people inspired by the product vision and you share the right context with the right people at the right time.
  • Mentor another PM in your area, supporting on their product strategy goals and delivery.

 

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You’ve shipped world-class products at a fast growing company.
  • You have a track record of leading the development of market-leading value propositions that drive significant growth and engagement.
  • You’ve mentored (or managed) other PMs, have the ability to coach others, and can provide clear and constructive feedback to your team and other disciplines.
  • You're data-driven and commercial. You have a proven track record of making an impact through experimentation and optimisation.
  • You can work effectively with a diverse range of people and working styles - spanning engineering, design, data, user research, marketing, legal and compliance - to get stuff done.
  • You’re able to motivate, energise and inspire people towards a common goal.
  • You’re passionate about building value for customers and not just achieving business results.
  • You’re intellectually honest about your work's performance, continually striving for improvement. 
  • You can systematically break down and solve complex problems.
  • You’re able to make good decisions in complex situations where there’s often no “right answer”. 
  • You have the urge and resilience to challenge the status quo and make things better, and are full of creative ideas for how to do so.
  • You’re a fast learner, humble and curious, and enjoy learning every day and sharing your knowledge and experience.
  • You’re excited by what we’re doing at Monzo, especially the current account. 

 

What’s in it for you:

💰 £95,000-£140,000 ➕ plus stock options & benefits 

✈️ 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 - at least monthly - 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.

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here

 

🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps

  • Recruiter Call 
  • Initial Call with Hiring Manager 
  • Final Loop, consisting of x3 hour long interviews that consist of a Project Walkthrough, Case Study and Leadership interview.
  • A final stage with a VP or CPO within the Product team

This process should take around 4-5 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

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


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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 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 😊

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: 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: Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
  • Visa Sponsorship: We can sponsor visas.

Monzo Bank Ltd, is an online bank based in the United Kingdom.

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