Senior User Researcher, Operations
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
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 ❤️
Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨
📍London | 💰 £90,000-£105,000 + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨
🚀We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
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 User Research team team
We are currently a team of 17 individual contributors, who are embedded into collectives i.e Core Banking, Business Banking etc, working cross functionally with Product Design, Product Management and Engineering teams. Our research organisation is led by Hayley Camille Morgan and Katherine Vaughan, our Directors of Research
🔑You’ll play a key role by
- Plan and run qualitative studies, including field observations and interviews, diary studies remote and in-person concept testing and usability studies for existing and future products.
- Identify actionable insights through quantitative methods, including conducting surveys and performing max diff analysis.
- Work with other researchers to connect the dots across multiple teams.
- Evaluate and explore information architecture, using tree-tests, card-sorts and whatever other methods are appropriate.
- Work within a cross-functional team to develop and deliver product strategy, including building a deep understanding of customer needs and market opportunities, and how we’ll continue to differentiate ourselves and grow.
- Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders across the organisation, including the wider product teams, company leadership, finance, marketing, compliance, legal, regulatory affairs and more to get alignment and support for the strategy.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and other User Researchers to generate hypotheses and plans for high-impact research that helps us better understand our existing and potential customers and how to create a better product that solves their problems and meets their needs.
- Lead the research for your squads suggesting the best approach and methods to use so we’re capturing the right insights that help us grow and develop our product in our mission to Make Money Work For Everyone.
🤩We’d love to hear from you if
- You’ve got lots of hands-on experience with exploratory and evaluative qualitative research methods, appreciating their limitations and when to apply them appropriately.
- You have experience building products for new markets, cultures, and languages.
- You've worked in a multidisciplinary team environment before, and made a demonstrable impact on the direction of the product or service for your area.
- You can run user testing with your eyes closed, regardless of the setting. You should be comfortable in a lab as well as stopping people in the street for quick feedback or setting up remote tests.
- You’re familiar with quantitative research and understand how user research helps shape metrics and drive teams towards success.
- You're happy user testing on mobile. We’re a mobile-only bank, so if you’ve got experience with both iOS and Android we’ll love you even more.
- You appreciate robust research study design, but can also consider practical constraints and business goals – you understand what 'just enough research' means.
- You’re a strong communicator and facilitator. You’re able to tell a story so your audience will want to listen to and zoom into detail when needed to help solutions come to life.
🙌What’s in it for you
💰 £90,000-£105,000➕share options.
✅ We can sponsor your visa.
🎂We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period.
📍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.
🏡£200 allowance to spend on your work-from-home setup after completing your first full month with us.
➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps
This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!
You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to nataliehills@monzo.com You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.
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.
Equal opportunities for everyone
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. You can read more in our blog, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
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.
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Equal opportunities for everyone
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. You can read more in our blog, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
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.