Lead Data Scientist

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Lead Data Scientist at Monzo focusing on data strategy to enhance customer engagement and product development. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions and implement best practices.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £95,000 - £130,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the data strategy and continue to evolve Monzo for our customers to make it magically simple to manage money day-to-day
Develop and execute best practices for experimentation enabling our team to make data informed decisions
Collaboratively set standards and work with data across Monzo, fostering knowledge sharing and continuously improving data practices.
Work closely with leaders in product, engineering, design and research to build and iterate on product ideas

Requirements

What you’ll need

You enjoy working with cross-functional fast-moving teams
You are able to think strategically about commercial products and how decisions using data can unlock more value for our customers
You are excited about mentoring other data scientists and analytics engineers
You are excited by experimentation and utilising new data techniques to solve challenging problems
You want to understand the nuances of our data and are excited about laying the key foundational knowledge for our new products and features
You are opinionated about how to think about measuring success and are willing to challenge the status quo.

Benefits

Comp & perks

£95,000 to £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits
We can help you relocate to the UK or Spain
We can sponsor visas
This role can be based in our London or Barcelona offices, but we're also 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.
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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Soft Skills

collaborationstrategic thinkingmentoringexperimentationproblem-solvingknowledge sharingchallenging status quo