[Hiring] Tech Recruitment Manager @Monzo

Role Description

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. 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 ❤️

As our team continues to grow, we're looking for a Player Coach to lead a small squad of Recruiters while remaining hands-on with hiring. This is a leadership role for someone who loves developing people just as much as they love finding great talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hiring strategy for your tech business area.
• Be the trusted hiring partner for Execs and senior stakeholders, helping shape hiring plans, organisational design and hiring strategy.
• Work closely with Workforce Planning and Business Hiring leadership to understand upcoming demand.
• Manage, coach and develop a team of Recruiters, creating an environment where people can do their best work.
• Support Recruiters through complex hiring challenges and provide thoughtful feedback.
• Balance day-to-day coaching with making decisions about priorities, workload and resource allocation.
• Personally manage a requisition load and partner with Hiring Managers to design effective assessment processes.
• Raise the bar on hiring quality using data, market insights and candidate feedback.
• Proactively source exceptional talent and share market insights with Hiring Managers and your team.
• Work closely with other Hiring Leaders to share best practice and solve cross-functional hiring challenges.

Qualifications

• Significant experience recruiting in-house, within tech functions (e.g. Product, Engineering).
• Experience managing or coaching Recruiters.
• Excited by a player-coach role that combines people leadership with hands-on recruitment.
• Comfortable partnering with senior stakeholders, including VPs and executives.
• Experience recruiting across a range of levels, from mid-level hires through to Senior Manager and Director roles.
• Excellent sourcer with the ability to attract outstanding passive talent.
• Use data and market insights to influence hiring decisions and improve recruitment processes.
• Passionate about inclusive hiring and creating exceptional candidate experiences.
• Build trusted relationships quickly and thrive in fast-moving, collaborative environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing hiring teams across multiple locations or hybrid/remote environments.
• Experience recruiting tech roles within a high-growth startup or scale-up.
• Partnered closely with workforce planning or capacity planning teams.
• Helped build or improve recruitment processes at scale.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
• Flexible working hours.
• £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Work from home setup with Macbooks provided.
• Plus lots more!

Application Process

The application journey has 3 key steps:

• Recruiter Call
• Initial Call
• Loop Interviews

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

Diversity and Inclusion

At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. 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.