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⭐Our Legal team

We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial, IP & AI to join our UK Legal team at Monzo and help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. 

You will report to Monzo’s Principal Legal Counsel, Commercial, IP & AI in the UK Legal team, which forms part of our wider Legal & Board Governance Collective. 

This role will have day-to-day responsibility for advising on commercial contracts, IP & AI matters for our UK business.  You’ll lead on a wide range of legal matters with opportunities for growth in role as the business scales.

In this role, you will work at all levels in the organisation and in close partnership with a wide-range of stakeholders including our Marketing, Procurement, Third Party Risk Management, Data Protection, Security, Risk & Control and Compliance teams.  Your clients will span all collectives of Monzo’s business, from Operations to Brand and everything in between.

No two days are the same in Monzo’s Legal team. This is not your typical legal role; so we’re not looking for a typical person.

On any given day you may be advising on a sports sponsorship, or the launch of the Monzo book, or a material outsourcing agreement, or the implementation of artificial intelligence technology - you’ll need to be curious and keen to learn.

Ultimately, we’re looking for a collaborative problem-solver with exceptional technical expertise who is willing to roll up their sleeves to help deliver products and services that delight our customers, raise standards, and contribute to our mission.

If this sounds like you, then please get in touch. 

🔑You’ll play a key role by acting as a trusted legal adviser…

• Leading on commercial contracts, including:
• directly drafted and negotiated yourself; and
• supported by our experienced panel of commercial legal contractors, whose work, delegated by you, you will supervise.
• Working (as part of the UK Legal team) alongside our colleagues in our Group Commercial Legal team on:
• developing and implementing processes and procedures to increase the efficiency and scalability of commercial legal advice across Monzo, including workflows, playbooks and precedents, and the use of new technologies; and
• delivering training, sharing insights from your work, and helping educate others on commercial contracts.
• Supporting the delivery of our intellectual property strategy (including working with our external advisers on clearance searches, registrations and oppositions).
• Being a subject matter expert on AI related matters (including the regulation of and contracting for AI).
• Managing relationships with our external legal counsel and alternative legal service providers and contractors, ensuring we are optimising our legal spend for greatest impact.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have around 5 years plus of relevant post qualification experience (or equivalent), having ideally spent time in private practice, and/or in-house at a high-growth technology company, and/or in-house at a bank and/or other financial institution.
• You have deep experience in all aspects of contract law, and have a genuine interest in commercial contracts; it’s not just your job but something you’re proud to be a geek about.  You’re comfortable explaining the difference between contract terms (conditions, warranties, indemnities, and representations) and negotiating your way through tricky legal issues including service credits, service levels, termination rights and liability provisions, among others.
• You have some experience advising on intellectual property related matters (copyright and trade marks in particular).
• You have some experience in artificial intelligence, particularly key legal issues related to the use of generative artificial intelligence.
• You have familiarity with the use of legal technology, including generative AI systems and contract lifecycle management platforms.
• You have some experience of financial services regulation as it relates to commercial contracts (such as material outsourcings, digital operational resilience and operational continuity).
• You have some experience in the transactional elements of data protection, including negotiating data sharing agreements, data processing agreements, and standard contractual clauses.
• You are a strategic thinker, a strong communicator and a keen problem solver who can recommend solutions that balance business and risk perspectives.
• You are willing to jump in and handle a wide range of legal issues that may arise even outside your core areas of expertise in an enthusiastic, proactive, and resourceful manner, and can sensibly assess when best to engage external counsel in a cost-effective way.
• You are comfortable operating at all levels of the organisation and liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• You enjoy horizon scanning, proactively assessing risks, and quickly identifying and independently implementing mitigating actions. 
• You have a dynamic and entrepreneurial approach and are comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced and rapidly-evolving environment.
• You welcome diverse perspectives, think rigorously and critically and aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions.
• You have an open and curious mind, are passionate about the intersection of banking and technology and are excited to join us for the next stage of our journey at Monzo!

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement.

At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply - even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! 

PQE is a guide only.

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰c. £110,000 base salary (dependent on experience) + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits 

✅ We can sponsor visas 

📍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, at times that suit you and your team

📚Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter call (potentially followed by an initial call with Principal Legal Counsel - Commercial, IP & AI)
• First stage 1 hour role specific interview
• Second stage 1 hour behavioural interview

This process should take around 2-3 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.

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⭐Our Legal team

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our team at Monzo, to help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. You will report to Monzo’s Director of Legal Payments & Business Banking, be part of the Legal and Board Governance Collective, and work with a team of product lawyers to give first rate legal advice and support to Monzo’s Product Collective, including areas like business banking and merchant payments. 

In this role, you’ll work closely with Monzo’s product collectives to build and deliver business banking and merchant payment products, and support the team in making money work for everyone. You’ll work at all levels in the organisation and with a wide-range of stakeholders from Product Managers and Designers, to Operations professionals and Software Engineers, and Risk and Compliance. You will be the ‘go to’ for all things legal and regulatory, and an important part of a team trying to improve our customers’ financial lives. 

🔑You’ll play a key role by…

• You’ll work directly with senior lawyers, product managers and engineers to provide legal advice and commercial insights to develop and grow Monzo Bank in the UK. 
• In particular, you will: 
• Partner with product managers to advise on legal matters relating to business banking and merchant payments (including issues relevant to providing our services to SMEs) and advise on the legal and regulatory requirements for a growing bank.
• Support Monzo with the operational and product changes needed to offer point of sale (POS) and online card payment acceptance to our business banking customers. 
• Help to develop efficient ways of working to enable Monzo to scale quickly, and ensuring Monzo operates safely and in accordance with the law and regulation.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing with other Monzonauts on the impact of laws and regulations on Monzo or our customers.
• Often act as the sole lawyer advising product managers or other colleagues (with support behind the scenes from more senior lawyers) and therefore act autonomously, take ownership of matters, identifying legal issues proactively, evaluating relevant risks and finding effective solutions to unique and complex business activities. 
• You’ll work closely and collaboratively with Monzo’s Director of Legal Payments & Business Banking, General Counsel of Monzo Bank Limited and the other members of the UK Legal team to provide legal advice and commercial insights to Product teams.
• You’ll be a trusted advisor and will work proactively and collaboratively with other relevant stakeholders and teams across the Monzo Group, including the Product, Risk & Compliance, Supplier Operations, Financial Crime, Fraud, and Operations teams.
• You’ll work with Monzo’s Director of Legal Payments & Business Banking, other lawyers and compliance to identify legal and regulatory risks relating to existing and new products, ensure robust challenge and scrutiny of product changes as they go through Monzo’s governance process and to ensure that the businesses you support respond appropriately to new and changed legal and regulatory requirements. 
• You’ll support Monzo’s global product development work by coordinating the legal review of products by collaborating with legal teams in the EU and US to identify local legal and regulatory requirements.
• You’ll work with colleagues across the Legal and Board Governance collective to improve the management of the activities of the legal team, including through identifying suitable technology solutions to streamline workflows, optimise processes and work efficiencies, and increase scalability.
• You’ll proactively manage relationships with external suppliers and law firms to enhance processes around cost management to ensure we are optimising our spend and extracting best value while delivering top-quality legal support. 

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are a technically excellent lawyer with a minimum of 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience working in the banking and finance sector. 
• You have a strong background advising on commercial and regulatory issues relating to banking products with specific knowledge and experience evidenced in business banking (including company law and insolvency aspects) and merchant acquiring. 
• You are a strong communicator who can provide clear, precise, and practical legal advice, effectively articulating what is relevant and important in a concise manner. 
• You can take a position on key issues, present persuasive recommendations, and constructively drive consensus among senior stakeholders.
• You have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise and work effectively and independently under tight deadlines across multiple projects.
• You are a team player and a keen problem solver, skilled at assessing risk and recommending solutions that balance commercial and risk considerations. You think ahead, anticipate relevant challenges, understand the commercial objectives of the teams you support, set clear objectives, and find effective solutions. 
• You are proactive, take initiative to broaden your knowledge, and are passionate about the intersection of banking and technology and the transformation unfolding in consumer finance. You are excited to work in a fast-paced environment and to join us for the next stage of our journey at Monzo!

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter call
• Initial call 
• Full loop: 
• Role specific interview
• Behavioural interview

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰 circa £100,000 & benefits 

✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here

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