Senior Brand Designer, Monzo
£58-72k
+ Share options
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
Be an early applicant
Digital-only bank platform and marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£58-72k
+ Share options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new kind of bank that makes money work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking an experienced and versatile Senior Brand Designer with a strong portfolio showing branding, art direction and ideas
- You have a proven track record in design roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating branding, art direction, campaigns and typography
- You demonstrate proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Figma is a must. Motion skills or 3D programs are a plus
- You possess a strong understanding of design principles, colour theory, and typography
- You have experience in leading design projects and mentoring junior designers
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate design concepts to both internal teams and clients
- You can manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines
- You have experience in fast-paced tech startups or creative agencies working on global brands
- You have experience in additional areas like web design, print design, storyboarding, art direction, film
- You’re obsessed with strategically designing within a brand, and have strong skills with evolving within a brand guideline
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll shape Monzo’s visual identity, deliver high-quality design solutions aligned with strategic goals, and drive innovative ideas as a conceptual thinker
- Your designs will combine creativity and vision, ensuring they’re both compelling and rooted in strong concepts
- As part of our dynamic internal creative studio, you’ll collaborate with designers and writers, exchanging feedback and raising design standards
- Working closely with the Lead Designers and Creative Director, you’ll ensure consistency and evolve the Monzo brand by partnering with product designers, marketing teams, and external agencies
- Key projects include refining brand guidelines, developing motion storyboards, creating campaign assets, collaborating on web designs and product designs, and elevating internal design projects
- Creative Leadership. Lead end-to-end projects from ideation to execution while fostering a collaborative and productive team environment
- Generate excellent ideas and articulate them clearly, both visually and verbally. Whether it’s crafting a standout campaign, refining our typography, or animating assets
- Working with externally agency partners on all things design, concepts and campaigns
- Brand Design. You demonstrate a deep knowledge of branding and show how you've created new or consistent work for an existing brand
- Hands-On Design. Roll up your sleeves and contribute directly to the design work—whether it’s crafting a standout campaign, refining our typography, or animating assets
- Typography. Utilize expert knowledge of typography to create visually appealing and readable designs
- Collaboration and Communication. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and project management, to deliver cohesive design solutions
- Creatively concept art direction and motion for in-app experiences with product teams
Application process
- 🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps
- 30-minute call with our Recruiter, Tom
- 1-hour craft interview where you’ll present a single case study to 2 members of our Brand Design team
- 1-hour interview covering values & ways of working
- To help us understand your skills and experience, we kindly ask that you include both your CV and a portfolio showcasing your work
- 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’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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Monzo is a challenger bank that fully operates online and offers a full range of current, savings, business accounts, and more. The speed of the challenger banks to provide a great experience has been impressive, and the number of competitors appearing has proven the consumer desire for innovation.
Monzo remains one of the popular online banks, with more than 6 million active users. The company faces competition from more traditional banks, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, which have launched their own digital banks. However, the new technologies that the company is built on enable it to expand quickly (with fewer issues) than the incumbent players' offerings.
With an increasing amount of people switching banks, the company's ever-expanding suite of banking and financial services (such as its buy-now-pay-later offering) has resulted in Monzo receiving the second-highest net switching gains among digital challenger banks (just behind Starling).
After setting U.S. expansion plans aside in 2020, the company launched in the U.S. market in early 2022, partnering with Sutton Bank to provide its U.S. accounts. After several years focused on narrowing its losses, Monzo hit profitability in the first two months of 2023. In the same year, 2 million new customers joined, tallying its customer base at 9 million in 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 18 rounds)
May 2024
$190m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$459.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- Yearly Salary Review + Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities + Share options
- Flexible working hours
- Work From Home Opportunities + we'll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
- 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays
- Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health + Health insurance via AXA or Vitality + Additional health insurance through Medicash
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year
- Aviva Pension Scheme + 4% Employer Contribution
- Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave (after 13 weeks of employment)
- 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (6 months at 100% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay, 13 weeks unpaid)
- 3 months of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay
- Unum Life Insurance
- Access to fertility and family-forming health benefits via Fertifa
- Abellio Season Travel Tickets + Cycle-to-Work Scheme
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
TS Anil
(CEO)Also a Board Member at Accion. Previously Board Member at UK Finance, Global Head of Payments, Products & Platforms at Visa and was the Global Head of Retail Products at Standard Chartered Bank.
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