Senior Executive Talent Researcher New London

Executive & Board Recruitment - Senior Executive Researcher

Monzo is a fintech that aims to make money work for everyone. We are looking for a senior executive researcher to join our Executive & Board Recruitment team, helping to find and hire leadership and board talent across the organization.

The Executive & Board Recruitment team supports all hiring at ExCo and Board level, working closely with senior stakeholders and our recruitment teams to build the most critical leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of Monzo's executive sourcing framework - setting standards for research, mapping, and candidate engagement.
• Partner with Executive Recruiters on live searches, co owning the sourcing and research strategy, and ensuring smooth collaboration.
• Design and embed a framework for recruiter sourcer partnership (e.g. role kick offs, milestone check ins, stakeholder touchpoints, feedback loops).
• Build succession pipelines for C suite and board roles, prioritising where you spend your time for impact.
• Create and maintain in depth market maps of leadership talent in the market and adjacent industries.
• Act as a trusted research advisor to recruiters and senior stakeholders, bringing deep market insights and competitive intelligence.
• Champion diversity and inclusion by ensuring all pipelines and market maps reflect Monzo's values and DE&I goals.
• Build and maintain long term relationships with senior leadership talent for both immediate and future opportunities.
• Contribute to projects that establish Monzo as a benchmark for executive and board hiring excellence.
• Innovate to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our systems and processes- not just incremental improvements, but also "moon shots" that fundamentally change how we approach executive search at Monzo.
• Have significant experience sourcing and researching at the executive or board level, either in house or in a top tier executive search firm.
• Have led or built sourcing/research frameworks and want to apply that expertise to continue to shape an in house function.
• Have been involved in succession planning or proactive pipeline building for senior leadership roles.
• Have a track record of partnering effectively with executive recruiters, ideally with experience shaping recruiter researcher ways of working; a collaborative team player with a track record of maximising team and individual performance.
• Be as comfortable designing strategy as you are executing the research behind it; highly experienced in creating search strategies, mapping markets, gleaning industry insights, and championing process and data quality.
• Bring credibility, discretion, and gravitas when partnering with senior stakeholders, with a high level of personal accountability, integrity, and authenticity.
• Care deeply about diversity, inclusiveness, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Have worked in house in a high growth business and/or have exposure to financial services or technology industries, ideally with a passion for FinTech.
• Learn quickly and run a thorough, best in class search process, including candidate research, outreach, engagement, and evaluation.

Qualifications

• Passionate about Monzo's mission of making money work for everyone.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Capable of thinking long term and shaping executive & board research strategy in line with global expansion objectives.
• Analytical, data driven, and thrives on solving complex problems.
• Exceptional skill in articulating a search strategy and communicating market and candidate insights to a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
• Thrives with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively develop diverse pipelines, promoting an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range and incentive awards tied to performance.
• Flexible working hours with trust to work sufficient hours; times that suit you and team.
• £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Remote work support, all employees given MacBooks, and extra support for fully remote workers' home office setup.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Monzo is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status. Diversity and inclusion are priorities for us; we foster an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.