Director of Executive and Board Hiring

Join Monzo as the Director of Executive and Board Hiring, where you'll lead the team responsible for hiring the company's most senior leaders. You'll partner directly with the Board, Executive Committee, and senior People leaders to build the leadership teams that will drive Monzo's growth. This strategic role requires exceptional relationship management, judgment, and the ability to influence at the highest levels of the organization. You'll set the vision and strategy for executive hiring, establish a culture of excellence, and ensure that our hiring strategy supports Monzo's long-term growth.

• Lead the team responsible for hiring Monzo's most senior leaders across Vice President, General Manager, Executive Committee and Board appointments.
• Personally lead on some of Monzo's most business-critical, confidential and high-impact Board, C-suite and Executive searches.
• 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.
• Are equally comfortable advising a Board Chair as you are directly engaging executive candidates
• Have built trusted relationships with Executive Committees, Boards and senior People leaders
• Can influence without hierarchy and build alignment across complex stakeholder groups
• Have significant experience leading Executive, C-suite and Board hiring within a high-growth technology company or modern financial services organisation
• Care deeply about candidate experience, inclusion and building exceptional leadership teams
• Have experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing team members
• Bring strong commercial judgement and use market insight to influence leadership hiring decisions
• Have experience hands-on hiring senior functional leaders, including Vice President and General Manager populations
• Thrive in environments characterised by pace, ambiguity and constant evolution
• 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