Monzo are hiring a
Senior Product Design Manager
🚀 Were on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Were 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. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. 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!
Were not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
📍 London (Hybrid) / UK Remote | 💰 £110,000 - £125,000 + Share Options | Benefits ✨
⭐ Our Design team
Were a team of 90+ designers, researchers, and brand experts led by Chief Design Officer Vuokko Aro. Were on a mission to make money work for everyone. Product Design makes up almost half of our design disciplines, working in tight-knit squads alongside research, product, and engineering to solve real customer problems at scale.
We design for the "magic moments" — weve built a bank that feels human, not just functional. Our product is our personality. We blend research, empathy, and craft to turn everyday interactions into memorable experiences.
Right now, were growing fast and looking for passionate design leaders to shape Monzos future — and theres a huge opportunity to make your mark.
🔎 About the role
As a Senior Product Design Manager at Monzo, youll lead and grow a team of talented designers. Youll roll up your sleeves to support your team through early discovery, workshops, and problem-solving while setting the strategic direction and vision for your product area. Youll help to shape our design team, raise the quality bar and deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers, while you partner closely with your counterparts in Product and Engineering, as well as the general manager of your product area.
🔑 Youll play a key role by...
- Building and nurturing a high-performing design team — investing in their growth, wellbeing, and long-term success.
- Maintaining an exceptional quality bar across all design work through clear feedback and coaching, helping designers and teams consistently deliver best-in-class experiences.
- Setting the strategic direction and design vision for your area, inspiring teams to think bigger and bolder, whilst aligning with Monzo goals and mission.
- Partnering with Product, Engineering, and the General Manager to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and turn strategy into impactful execution.
- Jumping in to solve tricky product and design problems, especially in early discovery or when teams need unblocking.
- Creating an environment where feedback is open, craft is celebrated, and design quality continues to evolve across the organisation.
- Acting as a champion for design at Monzo, influencing how design thinking shapes our products and culture.
🤩 Wed love to hear from you if...
- You have experience managing and coaching designers, ideally in a product-led tech environment.
- Youre a hands-on leader operating across a wide range of cross-functional team activities and goals, such as facilitating workshops, shaping a vision or guiding a product direction.
- You set and uphold a high bar for design quality and craft, with a keen eye for detail and usability.
- Youre comfortable working across ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams move from exploration to execution.
- Youre an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to influence product, engineering, and leadership partners.
- You know what “great” looks like in product design and can inspire teams to get there.
- Youre excited by Monzos mission to make money work for everyone — and want to help us push design further than ever before.
🙌 Whats in it for you
- 💰 £110,000 - £125,000 ➕ Share Options
- ✈️ Well help you relocate to the UK
- ✅ We can sponsor your visa
- 📍 This role can be based in our London office, but were open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
- ⏰ Flexible working hours and trust-based work culture
- 📚 £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training, and conferences
- 🏡 Full remote setup support, including equipment and workspace essentials
- ➕ Plus lots more!
This process should take around 4-5 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.
Well only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you dont miss out.
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, were 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.
Were 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 to apply. We dont need full or birth names at application stage 😊
