Data Science Manager, Operations

📍London | UK remote | 💰 £110,000 to £130,000 + Stock Options + Benefits | Hear from the team

⭐ About our Operations Team:

Our Operations Data team consists of over 40 people across 4 data disciplines: Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

In our Operations Collective, you'll have the opportunity to embed into an area that is the heart of how we work with our customers’ problems - delivering award winning customer support - and is full of data challenges. Data and Machine Learning supports all aspects of Operations, from workforce planning to customer support experience, to enabling teams to work effectively and efficiently.

🔑 You'll play a key role by...

You’ll work closely with the Product and Engineering in an agile product environment. You’ll champion the use of data, bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on improving our efforts in customer demand insights & help assistance.

You’ll help your team grow, hiring new team members, supporting their personal development. You will manage a team with Data Scientists and Data Analysts, working together with Analytics Engineers to drive product innovation and you’ll get to see the impact of all your work in the product changes we make.

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data folk the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

Your day-to-day:

• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts working on making Monzo world class at detecting and fighting financial crime activity
• Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our customer operations strategy
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life
• Liaise with product and engineering managers to make sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

🤩 We would love to hear from you if...

• What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!
• You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager
• You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
• Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
• You’re excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business
• You're familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same
• You know how to build confidence with senior leaders across the business
• You have strong product knowledge and have built data products previously
• You have experience working with teams that build ML models and you understand how to build the right data set for ML models

The interview process:

Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!

• 30 minute recruiter call
• 45 minute call with hiring manager
• 3 x 1-hour video calls with various team members

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on [email protected]

What’s in it for you:

✈️ 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 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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