Director of Executive and Board Hiring

📍London | 💰£ + equity + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits  ✨

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What started as a single product has grown into one of the UK's leading digital banks, serving millions of customers with products spanning personal banking, business banking, savings, investments, pensions and borrowing. As we continue to scale, expand our product offering and international footprint, attracting exceptional senior leadership talent has never been more important.

The leaders we hire today will shape Monzo for years to come. This role exists to ensure we continue to build one of the strongest leadership teams in financial services.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

As Director of Board & Executive Hiring, you'll lead the team responsible for hiring Monzo's most senior leaders across Vice President, General Manager, Executive Committee and Board appointments. You'll partner directly with the Board, Executive Committee and senior People leaders to build the leadership teams that will take Monzo through its next stage of growth.

You'll personally lead on some of our most business-critical, confidential and high-impact Board, C-suite and Executive searches, while leading a high-performing team delivering exceptional leadership hiring across the business. Together, you'll ensure every senior leadership hire reflects the quality, ambition and pace of Monzo.

This is a highly strategic, high-trust role. You'll spend as much time empowering your team, aligning complex stakeholder groups and shaping long-term leadership plans as you do leading executive searches yourself.

Success in this role requires judgement, exceptional relationship management and the ability to influence at the very highest levels of the organisation.

Why this role is different

This isn't a traditional executive recruitment role.

You'll be a trusted adviser to the Board, Executive Committee and Chief People Officer, helping shape the leadership decisions that define Monzo's future. From organisational design and succession planning to executive hiring strategy and leadership capability, you'll influence far more than individual hiring decisions.

It's a rare opportunity to combine executive search, strategic leadership, coaching and organisational influence in one role - shaping not only who joins Monzo, but how the company grows to support our customers and achieve our mission.

What you'll be working on

Lead Monzo's Board & Executive Hiring function

• You'll set the vision, strategy and operating model for Board & Executive Hiring at Monzo, ensuring we continue to raise the bar for how we identify, assess and hire exceptional leaders.
• You'll establish a culture of excellence across the team, creating clear standards for quality, stakeholder partnership and candidate experience, while continually evolving our approach through market insight, data and innovation.
• You'll ensure our hiring strategy supports Monzo's long-term growth, enabling the business to proactively build the leadership capability it needs for the future.

Build exceptional leadership teams

• You'll partner closely with the Chief People Officer, Executive Committee, Board members and senior leaders to understand where Monzo is heading and the leadership capability required to get us there.
• Rather than reacting to vacancies, you'll proactively shape hiring plans, succession strategies and executive talent pipelines, ensuring we're building the leadership capability Monzo will need for the future.

Coach and develop a high-performing Board & Executive Hiring team

• You'll lead and develop a lean team of specialist Executive Recruiters and Sourcers through coaching, mentoring and continuous capability building.
• You'll create an environment where your team can do their best work, helping them navigate complex senior hiring, strengthen stakeholder partnerships and continually raise the bar for executive search, candidate experience and hiring quality.

Be a trusted advisor

• Our most senior leaders value thoughtful challenge and honest advice.
• You'll influence hiring decisions using market insight, talent intelligence and a deep understanding of what good leadership means at Monzo.
• You'll regularly bring together complex stakeholder groups with differing priorities, creating alignment through clear recommendations, strong facilitation and excellent judgement.

Shape Monzo's senior leadership strategy

Working closely with the Chief People Officer, Talent Director, People Partners, Reward and the wider People Leadership team, you'll contribute to:

• Executive and Board succession planning
• Leadership capability and organisational design
• Executive assessment and calibration
• Senior leadership hiring strategy

You'll ensure senior leadership hiring is fully connected to Monzo's broader business strategy rather than operating as a standalone recruitment function.

Build world-class executive hiring practices

• You'll continuously evolve how we identify, assess and attract exceptional senior leaders.
• You'll bring external market insight into hiring decisions, strengthen our executive assessment approach and ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, personal and genuinely Monzo experience.
• You'll also build and maintain trusted relationships across the executive search ecosystem, leveraging external partners where they add value while continuing to evolve Monzo's market-leading in-house executive hiring capability.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you…

• Have significant experience leading Executive, C-suite and Board hiring within a high-growth technology company or modern financial services organisation.
• Have experience hands-on hiring senior functional leaders, including Vice President and General Manager populations.
• Have built trusted relationships with Executive Committees, Boards and senior People leaders.
• Are equally comfortable advising a Board Chair as you are directly engaging executive candidates.
• Have experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing team members
• Can influence without hierarchy and build alignment across complex stakeholder groups.
• Have partnered on organisation design, executive succession planning and leadership strategy.
• Understand executive compensation, including equity and partner effectively with Reward on complex remuneration packages.
• Bring strong commercial judgement and use market insight to influence leadership hiring decisions.
• Thrive in environments characterised by pace, ambiguity and constant evolution.
• Care deeply about candidate experience, inclusion and building exceptional leadership teams.

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 £competitive ➕ Incentive Awards tied to your performance.

✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK. 

✅ We can sponsor your visa. 

📍This role is based in our London office

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you 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! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter call 
• Full loop interviews
• Final interview

This process should take around 6-8 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. You can read them here.

We’ll 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 don’t miss out. 

If you’d prefer to work part-time, please let us know and we'll make this happen if we can.

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