Senior Lead Product Designer

📍Barcelona, Spain | 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + stock options | Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office 

⭐Our Design team

We’re a team of 90+ designers, researchers, and brand experts led by Chief Design Officer Vuokko Aro. We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. Product Design makes up almost half of our design disciplines, working in tight-knit squads alongside research, product, and engineering to solve real customer problems at scale.

We design for the "magic moments"

We’ve built a bank that feels human, not just functional. Our product is our personality. We blend research, empathy, and craft to turn everyday interactions into memorable experiences.

Right now, we’re growing fast and looking for passionate designers to shape Monzo’s future. There’s a huge opportunity to make your mark.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

• Setting the long-term design vision and leading large, end-to-end design projects in ambiguous problem spaces across wide product areas.
• Navigating tradeoffs and guiding strategic decisions in an opinionated way.
• Continuing to raise the bar for design craft and product excellence at Monzo, ensuring your work is a benchmark for quality and innovation across the organisation and our industry.
• Partnering with cross-functional leaders to define and execute product strategies that translate into actionable plans you help build and ship.
• Proactively addressing systemic challenges, reducing complexity, and creating better conditions for teams to deliver impactful work.
• Acting as a visible ambassador for Design, sharing your work and its impact across the company to maintain Design’s place at the heart of Monzo.
• Mentoring and levelling up designers across the discipline, fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and belonging.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You’re a strategic thinker who can shape product direction across multiple areas and translate organisational goals into clear, actionable plans.
• You’re an expert in your craft, with strong foundational skills across all areas of product design and confidence in your unique superpowers.
• You have a proven track record of delivering high-impact design work that drives customer outcomes, influences company metrics, and achieves commercial goals.
• You’ll have excellent visual and UI skills, and the ability to think through complex interaction design. 
• You’re curious about continuing to develop your craft and keep learning about new tools, ways of working, and technology.
• You thrive in ambiguity, leading teams to deliver in complex, fast-changing environments while maintaining a high bar for quality.
• You’re a natural collaborator, skilled at working cross-functionally to improve ways of working and deliver greater value for customers and the business.
• You’re a role model for resilience, rational decision-making, and effective communication, even in challenging circumstances.
• You’re passionate about growing and shaping the Design team, whether through hiring, onboarding, or creating resources that scale your impact across the organisation.
• You’re pragmatic and proactive, always looking for ways to improve Design’s impact at Monzo while balancing the need to “get the job done”.

🙌What’s in it for you

💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience ➕ Share Options

📍This role will be based in our Barcelona office (Hybrid) 

⏰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

📚Learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences

➕ Plus lots more!

This process should take around 4-5 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. 

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