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About the role
🚀 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. 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!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
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📍LONDON/CARDIFF/UK REMOTE | 💰 £138,000 TO £176,000 + INCENTIVE AWARDS TIED TO YOUR PERFORMANCE + BENEFITS | HEAR FROM THE TEAM ✨
ABOUT THE ROLE
Borrowing is one of Monzo’s most important growth engines. We’ve built strong scale in the UK, and the next phase is even more ambitious: grow in the UK, expand into new customer segments, and build the underwriting capability needed to scale into Europe.
We’re looking for a senior ML leader to help shape that next phase.
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
You’ll lead a high-calibre team of ML scientists and help define Borrowing’s ML roadmap across UK growth, new customer segments, and EU expansion. You’ll work across underwriting, pricing, limits, and lifecycle decisioning — improving today’s models while helping build the next generation of capability for Monzo.
This role combines near-term commercial impact with long-term strategic advantage:
improving performance across our range of products
unlocking new data and faster model development
helping Monzo build underwriting that scales into new markets
shaping how advanced ML and AI can create real value in Borrowing
You’ll partner closely with leaders across Credit Strategy, Product, Engineering, Model Validation, Data, and Platform, and influence decisions that shape both business performance and the long-term architecture of credit decisioning at Monzo.
WHAT YOU’LL OWN
Borrowing ML roadmaps across UK optimisation, new customer segments, and EU expansion
Faster model improvement through new data and feature engineering
How Monzo uses Open Banking, transaction intelligence, and external data in credit decisioning
More portable underwriting capabilities across products, customer segments, and markets
Hiring, leading, and developing a high-performing ML team
Raising the bar on model quality, governance, tooling, and speed of iteration
WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON
Examples of the challenges you could help lead:
Improving underwriting models across Loans, Flex, and Overdrafts
Expand the data we use in our models
Building better feature engineering and model shipping capability
Improving transaction intelligence for credit use cases
Developing underwriting capabilities for new customer segments and EU markets
Shaping Monzo’s approach to advanced ML and AI
OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies, although we do not expect applicants to have prior experience of all of them:
Google Cloud Platform
BigQuery SQL and dbt
Python and the PyData stack
Google AI Platform
AWS
Python for ML services
Go for backend services
AI tooling for productivity
Google Workspace including Gemini
ChatGPT Enterprise
Claude Code
YOU SHOULD APPLY IF
You want to shape the next phase of credit decisioning at one of Europe’s most ambitious fintechs
You enjoy combining strategic leadership with strong technical judgment
You’re excited by the intersection of underwriting, data, product, and platform capability
You like building teams as much as building models
You care about real customer and business impact
YOU MUST HAVE
CREDIT AND MACHINE LEARNING
Strong knowledge of machine learning, statistics, and decisioning systems
Deep experience in credit risk and lending
Experience building, deploying, and iterating credit models in production
Experience pushing the innovation frontiers of the credit industry
LEADERSHIP AND DELIVERY
Experience leading and developing senior ML scientists
Strong cross-functional leadership with Product, Credit Strategy, Engineering, and Validation
Track record of turning strategy into practical delivery in a regulated environment
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVE
Experience across more than one market
Experience with advanced ML methods and AI on structured financial data
THE INTERVIEW PROCESS
30 min Recruiter Call
45 min Initial Call
60 min ML technical interview
60 min People Leadership interview
60 min Product / Credit ML interview
All interviews will be conducted through Google Meet.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
💰 £138,000 to £176,000 ➕ plus stock options & benefits
✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK
✅ We can sponsor visas
📍This role can be based in our London office with a hybrid working pattern, or fully remote within the UK with occasional travel to London.
🏡 We’ll set you up to work from home, including support for remote setups.
⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work in a way that lets you do your best work.
📚 Learning budget for books, training courses and conferences
➕ And much more — see our full list of benefits here
#LI-DC2 #LI-Remote
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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 to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
