🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
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 UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨
London or UK Remote | 💰£75,000 - £95,000 + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨
⭐Our Design team
We’re a team of 80+ 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 org, which also includes User Research and Brand Design, working in tight-knit squads alongside research, product, and engineering to solve real customer problems at scale.
We design for "magic moments"
We’ve built a bank that feels human, not just functional. Our product is our personality. We blend customer empathy, design thinking, 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 and there’s a huge opportunity to make your mark.
💬 What the role is about…
We’re on the lookout for a talented Design Systems Product Designer with a knack for creating cohesive and scalable app and web experiences. This role focuses on expanding and evolving our existing Design Systems across channels, establishing a best-in-class system for our personal and business banking customers, aiming to bring consistency and efficiency across all our growing surfaces on web and app.
As we aim to craft and develop a cohesive design language across our app, web, and other digital experiences, you’ll play a pivotal role in elevating, accelerating and maintaining our Design Systems. Your work will directly enable our designers across collectives to contribute more effectively, ensuring a seamless end to end user experience.
🔑 You’ll play a key role through...
- Design System strategy: Contributing towards the Monzo Design Systems vision by building on our existing foundations and embedding delight into our components and patterns.
- Consistency across platforms: Ensuring uniformity and coherence in Monzo’s experience across platforms and channels, enhancing the customer journey from the outset.
- Scalability: Scaling the Design Systems across channels to ensure our product adapts seamlessly as we launch in new markets, respecting cultural specificities without compromising our global brand.
- Design System evolution: Helping expand and evolve a Business Banking Web Design System, defining how the web channel complements the Native experience, and ensuring a coherent approach that leverages existing universal foundations.
- .com: Building the Design System for the .com sites, providing a robust framework that enables adaptability, responsiveness and flexibility to design and build a seamless experience for our prospect customers, whilst enabling our growth teams to experiment.
- Componentisation: Accelerating the componentisation of existing designs into a scalable system, enabling other designers to contribute to their squads more efficiently.
- Collaboration and support: Working closely with the Lead Product Designer, product managers and engineers to integrate the Design System with the Storybook components used by engineering teams.
- Contribution to our Monzo brand: Working in collaboration with the brand team to ensure our Design System brings the best of our Monzo brand and usability best practice principles.
🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you have…
- Experience at scale: Proven experience in design systems and product design across channels, for complex products within fast-paced environments.
- Technical skills: Proficiency in Figma, with a strong portfolio showcasing componentisation work and design system development.
- Collaborative spirit: Ability to collaborate across departments and work as part of a team to drive project success.
- Problem-solving mindset: An innovative thinker who can propose solutions to harmonise and unify diverse design elements across multiple platforms, keeping up with the latest technology in their field.
- Detail-oriented: Strong attention to detail with experience designing microinteractions and haptics, maintaining quality along with speed in a dynamic working environment.
🙌 What’s in it for you
💰 £75,000-£95,000 ➕ share options.
✈️ 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!
🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps
- 20-minute call with our Recruiter, Tom
- 1-hour craft interview where you’ll present a single case study to 2 members of our Design team.
- 2 x 45-minute interviews covering Teamwork and Impact.
This process should take around 3-4 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.
You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to [email protected]. 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.
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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, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 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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