Senior Lead Product Designer, Operations

Role Overview

• Embedding the long-term design vision for support experiences at Monzo, shaping how customer-facing journeys, internal systems, and human service connect into one coherent ecosystem.
• Leading large, end-to-end design initiatives across ambiguous problem spaces, spanning AI-enabled help experiences, internal tooling, and operational workflows.
• Designing with a service mindset, understanding what happens beyond the interface and shaping the real-world impact of your design decisions.
• Designing across touchpoints; from the app, to the phone, to human support.
• Navigating tradeoffs and guiding strategic decisions in an opinionated way.
• Coaching the other Ops Collective designers by helping them to embed the vision in their work, running design crits and supporting them to shape their work.
• 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.

Requirements

• You’re an expert in your craft, with deep expertise in a specific design discipline and strong foundational skills across all areas of product design.
• You’re comfortable designing for AI and automation-enabled environments, and excited by the opportunities AI creates to rethink how services operate.
• You have experience working on complex service ecosystems, where digital products connect to real-world operations, people, or logistics.
• You’re passionate about improving how humans and technology work together, creating experiences that feel seamless to customers and empowering to the teams delivering support.
• 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, UI and interaction skills, and the ability to think through complex interaction design.
• You thrive in ambiguity, leading teams to deliver in complex, fast-changing environments while maintaining a high bar for quality.
• You’re a strategic thinker who can shape product direction across multiple areas and translate organisational goals into clear, actionable plans.
• 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 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”.

Benefits

• 💰£110,000
• £125,000
• ✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
• ✅ We can sponsor your visa.
• 📍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).
• ⏰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!