New Bets Lead London

Company: Monzo
Apply for the New Bets Lead London
Location: London
Job 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.

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

This role will be titled internally as Special Projects Lead, and is a part of our Special Projects Team.

Our Special Projects team

You will be part of a small and high impact team of commercially minded, strategic, and analytically driven generalists. We shape and deliver trajectory-changing and business outcome focused projects across teams and at the Monzo level for C‑Suite, GMs and senior stakeholders in the different parts of our business like Core Banking, Borrowing, Wealth, Business Banking, Operations, etc.

To succeed, you should be excited about solving tough, ambiguous business problems with analytical rigour, commercial viability and execution effectiveness. You’ll be working on a wide range of projects, collaborating with partners and colleagues across areas like product, data and marketing; operating in a high pace and ambiguous environment.

Examples of projects our team delivers include: seeding new products and business lines, delivering business transformation initiatives, expansion into new geographies, super-charging product growth, M&A, and high‑impact partnerships.

We’d want you to apply if you are underwhelmed by the status quo of banking and finance today and are interested in bringing your brainpower, commercial and quantitative skills and grit to creating something better.

  • Leading and executing trajectory changing, cross‑functional projects that align with the company’s strategic goals.
  • Engaging C‑suite, GMs and other senior stakeholders to build the cross‑functional influence required to drive strategic decision‑making or unblock high‑impact initiatives across the business.
  • Collaborating with senior stakeholders and teams across product, marketing, operations, and engineering to problem solve jointly and deliver initiatives successfully.
  • Identifying opportunities to optimise processes, drive efficiencies, and enhance project outcomes across Monzo.
  • Driving problem solving, research and data gathering to inform business cases, go/no go decisions and influence strategy setting across the business.
  • Owning analysing data, customer needs, market, competitive insights and commercial analyses to inform strategic decision‑making.
  • Developing and tracking project plans, KPIs, and success metrics, ensuring timely progress and measurable results.
  • Scaling team impact and performance by supporting talent development and staffing strategy, whether through direct management or high‑impact coaching.
  • You have a founder mindset and take ownership of your work
  • You have the urge and resilience to challenge the status quo and make things better
  • You’re excellent at managing and influencing stakeholders
  • You’re a persuasive communicator who can inspire stakeholders and influence decisions and project outcomes.
  • You’re commercially minded and excited to collaborate with external partners and other stakeholders to get the best outcomes for our customers
  • You thrive in ambiguity, ask incisive questions and take a structured and data‑led approach to problem‑solving
  • Your super power is understanding and solving complex problems, whether it is going deep into data or based on regulation, legal documents, business processes, user needs, or technology
  • You’re data‑driven, numerate and logic oriented
  • You are a great project and team leader
  • You’re humble but excited by what we’re doing at Monzo

The following would be a bonus:

  • Experience working in a high growth company on zero to one projects and products
  • Experience working on business transformation and strategy
  • Experience working on international expansion projects

What’s in it for you

£106,300 – £143,800 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance.

This role can be based in our London office but we’re open to discussing distributed working.

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

The application journey has 6 key steps

  • Initial Call with Hiring Manager
  • Take‑home Case‑Study Assessment.
  • Loop interviews
    • Analytical thinking (Including review discussion of previously submitted case‑study)
    • Problem Solving
  • Final Interview, Behavioural

This process should take around 3-4 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.

#LI-TP1

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 , 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 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.

#J-18808-Ljbffr…

Posted: August 20th, 2026