[Hiring] Data Science Manager @Monzo

Role Description

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.

• Work closely with Product, Engineering and senior leaders to ensure data plays a central role in understanding problems, making decisions, and developing products.
• Lead and develop a team of talented Data Scientists, helping them do their best work while setting a high bar for analytical quality and impact.
• Provide strategic direction across complex problems and help teams identify where Data Science can have the greatest impact.
• Ensure insights translate into meaningful decisions and product changes.
• Foster a strong culture of data-driven decision making across Monzo.
• Support self-serve analytics through Looker, allowing Data teams to focus on higher-impact problems.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing and developing Data Scientists.
• Strong strategic data leader 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.
• Familiarity with tools and languages such as Python and SQL.
• Ability to build credibility with Product, Engineering and senior business leaders.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to the UK.
• Visa sponsorship available.
• Flexible working hours with trust to work enough hours to do your job well.
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences.
• And much more, see our full list of benefits.