Lead Product Designer

Overview

Lead Product Designer role at Monzo Bank.

We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re solving complex banking challenges by building human, practical products that delight customers and drive meaningful outcomes. Monzo is growing fast and looking for passionate designers to shape its future.

Location: London (Hybrid) or UK Remote | Salary: £90,000 – £110,000 + stock options + Benefits

Relocation to the UK support and visa sponsorship are available. 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).

Responsibilities

• Tackle complex and ambiguous design challenges, turning complexity into elegant, scalable solutions that empower teams and improve the customer experience.
• Define and deliver large-scale projects that connect initiatives across the business, using design methods to align strategies and drive outcomes.
• Lead the creation of compelling product visions, principles, and direction that inspire teams toward a shared future.
• Raise the bar for visual execution, considering motion, interaction, and mental model clarity to deliver delightful and practical solutions.
• Influence design system, tooling, and processes to improve design at scale.
• Drive improvements across the business by connecting work to wider goals and leveraging cross-functional collaboration.
• Act as a role model in Design, share work broadly, mentor others, and contribute to the growth and success of the Design team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering impactful, customer-centric native-app designs that solve complex problems and drive commercial outcomes.
• Skilled at leading research, defining product visions, and aligning teams around a shared strategy.
• Experience creating modular, scalable solutions and using design artefacts to communicate insights effectively.
• Natural collaborator who can navigate multi-squad projects, align leadership, and drive clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Passionate about improving design systems, processes, and ways of working to help teams deliver better outcomes at scale.
• Role model who contributes to the growth of the Design team through hiring, mentoring, and fostering a positive culture.
• Motivated by Monzo’s mission to make money work for everyone and eager to make a significant impact on customers and business.

What’s In It For You

£90,000 – £110,000 + stock options. We’ll help you relocate to the UK. We can sponsor your visa. This role can be based in our London office (hybrid) or distributed within the UK with ad hoc meetings in London. Flexible working hours and trust to work hours that suit you and your team. £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences. Macbooks for all employees; for fully remote workers we provide additional support for home setup. Plus lots more!

Application journey

• 20-minute call with our Recruiter
• 1-hour craft interview presenting a single case study to 2 members of the Design team
• 2 x 45-minute interviews covering Teamwork and Impact

Equal opportunities

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don’t require full or birth names at application stage.