Senior Executive Talent Researcher

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.

Our Executive & Board Recruiting team helps find, engage and hire the next generation of leadership and board talent for Monzo globally. We are a small, dedicated team of leadership recruiting experts, based out of London but with a global reach. Monzo continues to grow and we are looking for an Executive Researcher to join the team.

As part of our People Collective team, you’re charged with finding the most interesting candidates who bring an entrepreneurial spirit, a sense of scrappiness and a diversity of thought to all they do. You’re responsible for engaging executive and board candidates to our hiring process and connecting them to the magic of working at Monzo. You are creative and driven, with an interpersonal savvy that allows you to develop lasting relationships with candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. You’re also comfortable with numbers and drawing insights from analytics to make our hiring process smarter and more efficient.

From generating pipelines to enriching the search process with market and talent insights, you are confident in a room with senior stakeholders advising on talent and market trends and taking ownership of candidate pipelines. It’s really important that you are adept at keeping an eye on market trends, bringing in‑depth credible knowledge and research to every process. Organised and thoughtful in your approach, you will work across multiple collectives and so curiosity and an ability to learn quickly is key. You are data‑led, always looking to iterate for process improvement and experienced at designing thorough and creative search strategies.

By leveraging your knowledge of our clients’ hiring needs and search requirements, you effectively match candidates with the roles in which they will be most successful. The Executive & Board Recruitment team at Monzo is an exciting and focused group – supporting all hiring at ExCo and Board level, across all parts of the organisation. Our work is focused solely on the most critical leadership roles. You work closely with our Boards, ExCo, and other leaders across every function.

To be part of this team takes a special person. We are trusted advisors to the leadership at Monzo with a deep understanding of the external talent landscape. With a strong perspective on the external talent landscape and deep insights into Monzo’s business priorities, you will develop search strategies and lead engagements to position Monzo for success today and well into the future. At Monzo, our bar is high; your job is not to just find the most highly‑skilled talent on the market, but also those that will work well in the incredibly unique and valuable Monzo culture. You have the drive, motivation and passion to disrupt the talent landscape and deliver incredible client and candidate experience.

You’ll play a key role by:

• Leading the design of Monzo’s executive sourcing framework – setting standards for research, mapping, and candidate engagement.
• Partnering with Executive Recruiters on live searches, co‑owning the sourcing and research strategy, and ensuring smooth collaboration.
• Designing and embedding a framework for recruiter‑sourcer partnership (e.g., role kick‑offs, milestone check‑ins, stakeholder touch‑points, feedback loops).
• Building succession pipelines for C‑suite and board roles, prioritising where you spend your time for impact.
• Creating and maintaining in‑depth market maps of leadership talent in market, and adjacent industries.
• Acting as a trusted research adviser to recruiters and senior stakeholders, bringing deep market insights and competitive intelligence.
• Championing diversity and inclusion by ensuring all pipelines and market maps reflect Monzo’s values and DE&I goals.
• Building and maintaining long‑term relationships with senior leadership talent for both immediate and future opportunities.
• Contributing to projects that establish Monzo as a benchmark for executive and board hiring excellence.
• Innovate to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our systems and processes – not just incremental improvements, but also “moon shots” that fundamentally change how we approach executive search at Monzo.

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have significant experience sourcing and researching at the executive or board level, either in‑house or in a top‑tier executive search firm.
• You’ve led or built sourcing/research frameworks and want to apply that expertise to continue to shape an in‑house function.
• You’ve been involved in succession planning or proactive pipeline building for senior leadership roles.
• You have a track record of partnering effectively with executive recruiters, and ideally have experience shaping recruiter‑researcher ways of working.
• You are a collaborative team player, with a track record of maximizing team as well as individual performance.
• You’re as comfortable designing strategy as you are executing the research behind it.
• You are highly experienced in creating search strategies, mapping markets, gleaning industry insights and being a champion of process and data quality.
• You bring credibility, discretion, and gravitas when partnering with senior stakeholders, bringing a high level of personal accountability, integrity and authenticity in everything you do.
• You care deeply about diversity, inclusiveness, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• You’ve worked in‑house in a high‑growth business and/or have exposure to financial services or technology industries, with ideally a passion for Fintech.
• Learning agility to get up to speed quickly on new markets and to run a thorough, best‑in‑class search process, including candidate research, outreach, engagement, and evaluation.

Personal Profile

• You are passionate about Monzo’s mission of making money work for everyone.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• You have the capability to think long‑term and help shape our executive & board research strategy in line with global expansion objectives.
• You’re analytical, data‑driven and thrive solving complex problems.
• You will have exceptional skill in articulating a search strategy and communicating market and candidate insights to a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
• You thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively develop diverse pipelines, promoting an inclusive work environment.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive salary range + Incentive Awards tied to your performance.
• Flexible working hours and trust 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.
• We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work‑from‑home setup.
• Plus lots more!

The application journey has 3 key steps:

• Recruiter Call
• Initial Call with Hiring Manager
• Two‑Loop stage interviews

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.