Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><em>🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</em></strong></p> <p>We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p> <p>After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/personal">personal</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/business-banking">business</a> bank accounts, we offer <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account">joint accounts</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17">accounts for 16-17 year olds</a>, a <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s">free kids account</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/flex">credit cards</a> in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also <a href="https://monzo.com/savings">save</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/investments">invest </a>and <a href="https://monzo.com/pensions">combine their pensions</a> with us. </p> <p>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!</p> <p>We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p> <hr> <p> </p></div><h4><strong>📍London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰 £115,000 - £150,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/">Benefits</a>  ✨</strong></h4> <h2><strong>About our Machine Learning Search Team</strong></h2> <p>We are currently embarking on one of our two top strategic priorities to make Money work for Everyone: building the Monzo Co-pilot. We are becoming an intelligent, proactive ally that handles the complexity of users financial life. We aren't just selling financial products; we are building a truly smart agent that understands users, anticipates their needs, and helps people reach their financial goals.</p> <p>Our ML Search team brings together Backend, Product, Machine Learning Scientists and Data Scientists. As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist, you’ll build and ship models that help customers search for and find answers about their financial lives. You'll make it effortless for them to find the right products at the exact moment they need them.</p> <p>Whether it’s surfacing the right savings product at the perfect moment, helping customers manage their spending, or simplifying financial planning, our work makes banking smarter, more intuitive, and truly customer-first.</p> <h2><strong><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">What you’ll be working on:</span></strong></h2> <div class="notion-selectable notion-text-block" data-block-id="39569fe4-26d2-80f7-b7b1-c3e03c9b7fe8"> <div class="x78zum5"> <div id=":rl36:" class="content-editable-leaf-rtl notranslate" data-content-editable-leaf="true">As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist, you'll be a technical leader and individual contributor. We have a modern, cloud-native data platform with billions of rows of data built for fast iterations. You'll leverage your deep expertise to develop and deploy advanced ML models to our more than 15 million customers.</div> <div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="notion-selectable notion-text-blo