Join Monzo as a Public Policy Manager, shaping ambitious policy agendas and driving government relations engagement as we grow from a UK bank to an international tech and financial services group. Lead policy development across corporate, product, financial inclusion, and AI categories while building strategic relationships with policymakers, regulators, and advocacy groups.
📋 Job Requirements
• Bring 3-5 years of experience working in policy within a policy team, public affairs team, regulator, think tank, or similar organization.
• Demonstrate passion for Monzo's mission to make money work for everyone and drive positive customer impact.
• Show self-starter mentality with comfort operating at high execution speed.
• Take initiative and drive projects forward at pace without requiring direction.
• Possess strong analytical skills to monitor and analyze complex policy issues affecting Monzo.
• Communicate effectively through policy analysis, research, and briefings for diverse stakeholders.
• Display ability to advocate for regulatory or legislative changes to various audiences.
• Work collaboratively across teams to identify policy objectives aligned with company mission.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Bring experience in financial services policy or tech policy.
• Show track record of managing stakeholder relationships across government, regulators, and trade bodies.
• Demonstrate experience leading policy development in financial inclusion or regulation.
• Possess skills in using user research and data to create evidence-based policy recommendations.
• Have experience writing formal consultation responses and policy submissions.
• Show ability to build expertise and thought leadership on policy and social impact issues.
• Bring experience partnering with NGOs, consumer groups, and organizations with shared missions.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Identify, monitor, and analyze key policy issues affecting Monzo and work with internal stakeholders to define policy objectives.
• Prepare policy analysis, research, and briefings for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support writing formal responses to relevant consultations and policy requests.
• Develop key relationships with policymakers, industry groups, consumer groups, and NGOs.
• Build expertise and advocacy positions on policy and social impact issues aligned with Monzo's mission.
• Partner with organizations sharing Monzo's aims by pooling expertise, resources, and voice.
• Lead policy development in areas like financial inclusion and regulation where appropriate.
• Keep up to date with latest political and regulatory developments affecting tech and financial services.
• Delve into complex policy problems to highlight key issues for Monzo and customers.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across government, regulators, trade bodies, and third sector.
• Identify opportunities to broaden internal and industry stakeholder networks.
• Engage enthusiastically with team, Collective, and discipline-level initiatives.
About Monzo
😃 What Monzo offers
• Competitive salary of £64,000-£70,000 plus share options.
• Flexible working hours with trust to manage your schedule around team needs.
• £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Full work-from-home setup including MacBook and additional remote work support.
• Comprehensive benefits package supporting diversity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing.
• Opportunity to work at a mission-driven fintech making money work for everyone.
💖 What makes Monzo unique
Monzo is a UK-based digital bank on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving beyond complicated traditional banking. Starting as a prepaid card, Monzo now offers personal and business accounts, joint accounts, teen accounts, kids accounts, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions across the UK. Known for hot coral cards, early salary access, financial education, and award-winning customer service, Monzo creates magical moments for customers while solving problems and changing lives.