Engineering Director

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed engineering organisation spanning multiple squads, markets and countries
• Build and develop Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders
• Partner with various leaders to define and execute Monzo's European strategy
• Drive alignment and execution across collectives for capabilities in Europe
• Shape approaches to market expansion, localisation, and regulatory requirements
• Influence priorities across teams that do not directly report to you
• Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces
• Design and evolve organisational structures for scaling in Europe
• Help identify product-market fit in new markets

Requirements

• Experience leading large engineering organisations through other leaders
• Successfully operated in highly complex organisations
• Exceptional at building relationships and influencing without direct authority
• Navigate ambiguity and create clarity
• Experience scaling organisations through rapid growth or market expansion
• Solve organisational and business problems, balancing strategy and execution
• Strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams
• Energised by building something new

Soft Skills

• leadership
• relationship building
• influencing without authority
• navigating ambiguity
• problem solving
• strategic thinking
• execution
• team building
• scaling organizations
• market expansion