Remote Senior Legal Counsel, Product in York

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.

We're looking for a Product Legal Counsel to join our team at Monzo, at Senior Legal Counsel level, to help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. You will report to Monzo's Director of Product Legal and work within a team of product lawyers to give first-rate legal advice and support to Monzo's Product Collective, including areas like borrowing, personal and business banking.

In this role, you'll work closely with Monzo's product collectives to build and deliver banking products, and support the team in making money work for everyone. You'll work at all levels in the organisation and with a wide range of stakeholders from Product Managers and Designers, to Operations professionals and Software Engineers, and Risk and Compliance. You will be the 'go to' for all things legal and regulatory, and an important part of a team trying to improve our customers' financial lives.

Your day-to-day:

• You'll work directly with senior lawyers, product managers and engineers to provide legal advice and commercial insights to develop and grow Monzo Bank in the UK.
• Partner with product managers to advise on legal matters relating to our borrowing, personal or business banking products and advise on the legal and regulatory requirements for a growing bank.
• Help to develop efficient ways of working to enable Monzo to scale quickly, ensuring Monzo operates safely and in accordance with the law and regulation.
• Coordinate and collaborate on legal matters with teams across Monzo including the Compliance, Risk and Control, other control functions and business teams.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing with other Monzonauts on the impact of laws and regulations on Monzo or our customers.
• Often act as the sole lawyer advising product managers or other colleagues (with support behind the scenes from more senior lawyers) and therefore act autonomously, take ownership of matters, identifying legal issues proactively, evaluating relevant risks and finding effective solutions to unique and complex business activities.
• Help colleagues in the Legal Team to build a world-class and scalable, high performing Legal team by testing and developing new ways of working.
• Work closely and collaboratively with Monzo's Director of Product Legal, General Counsel of MBL and the other members of the UK Legal team to provide legal advice and commercial insights to Product teams.
• Be a trusted advisor and work proactively and collaboratively with other relevant stakeholders and teams across the Monzo Group, including the Product, Risk & Compliance, Supplier Operations, Financial Crime, Fraud, and Operations teams.
• Work with Monzo's Director of Product Legal, other lawyers and compliance to identify legal and regulatory risks relating to existing and new products, ensure robust challenge and scrutiny of product changes as they go through Monzo's governance process and ensure that the businesses you support respond appropriately to new and changed legal and regulatory requirements.
• Support Monzo's global product development work by coordinating the legal review of products by collaborating with legal teams in the EU and US to identify local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Work with the Legal and Board Governance collective to improve the commercial management of the activities of the legal team, including through identifying suitable technology solutions to streamline workflows, optimise processes and work efficiencies, and increase scalability.
• Proactively manage relationships with external suppliers and law firms to enhance processes around cost management to ensure we are optimising our spend and extracting best value while delivering top-quality legal support.

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You are a technically excellent lawyer with a minimum of 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience working in the banking and finance sector.
• You have a strong background advising on commercial and regulatory issues relating to banking products with specific knowledge and experience evidenced in consumer credit, payments and banking conduct rules.
• You have demonstrated experience of advising on laws and regulations relevant to financial services, in particular consumer credit, payments and banking products.
• You are able to explain complex regulations (including the Consumer Credit Act and Payment Services Regulations) in a simple way and you look for innovative ways of solving problems.
• You have experience advising on the content of regulated financial promotions and supported marketing teams with legal issues relating to the marketing of financial products.
• You are a strong communicator who can provide clear, precise, and practical legal advice, effectively articulating what is relevant and important in a concise manner.
• You have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise and work effectively and independently under tight deadlines across multiple projects.
• You have good interpersonal and team player skills and can evidence working across a network of cross-functional stakeholders to collaboratively solve problems.
• You are a keen problem solver, skilled at assessing risk and recommending solutions that balance commercial and risk considerations.
• You enjoy horizon scanning, proactively assessing risks, and quickly identifying and independently implementing mitigating actions.
• You have a dynamic and entrepreneurial approach and are comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced and rapidly-evolving environment.
• You are proactive, take initiative to broaden your knowledge, and are passionate about the intersection of banking and technology and the transformation unfolding in consumer finance.

The interview process involves 3 main stages:

• Recruiter call
• Initial call
• Full loop: Technical and behavioural interviews

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.

What's in it for you:

• circa £100k plus stock options & benefits
• We can help you relocate to the UK [We can sponsor visas]
• This role is based in our London office. If you are not based in London, we're open to discuss this on a case-by-case basis.
• 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.

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.

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.