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At Deblock, we are building the first bank onchain: simple, non-custodial, and human. We are looking for our Mid Product Owner for our next Tax Product. The person who will shape and deliver a best-in-class crypto tax experience for our users. This isn’t a role for someone who just writes user stories; it’s for a legally sharp, product-minded builder. You will report directly to the Founders and Head of Product, acting as the bridge between complex French and European tax regulation and a product that makes compliance feel effortless. You will own the Tax Product from discovery to delivery. • The "Legal-Meets-Product" Profile: You are a qualified French corporate or tax lawyer (Master 2 / CAPA or equivalent) with c. 3–5 years of experience. You may have started in a top-tier law firm or Big 4 tax practice, then moved closer to product and tech., • Product Instincts: You have hands-on experience contributing to or owning a product – writing specs, prioritising backlogs, running sprints, or shipping features. You understand what it means to build, not just advise., • French & EU Tax Fluency: You have deep knowledge of French tax obligations related to digital assets (flat tax, IFI, plus-values, déclarations fiscales) and a solid grasp of the evolving EU regulatory landscape (DAC8, MiCA implications)., • Analytical Rigour: You don't just "have ideas" – you build decision trees, write clear PRDs, and back your recommendations with data and legal reasoning., • Bilingual Communication: You are fluent in French (native-level) and professional in English. You can translate dense tax regulation into plain language a user can understand., • Crypto-Native Knowledge: You have already worked on crypto-tax topics – whether at a legaltech, a Web3 company, or advising crypto clients in practice. You can explain the tax treatment of staking rewards at dinner without losing the table., • Product Delivery Track Record: You've shipped a feature or product end-to-end in a startup or scale-up environment, ideally in fintech or legaltech., • Regulatory Network: You have contacts within the French tax administration (DGFiP), AMF, or relevant professional bodies that could accelerate our compliance journey., • Tax Product Roadmap: Own the end-to-end product roadmap for Deblock's Tax Product – from transaction categorisation and capital-gains calculation to the generation of tax-ready reports (Cerfa 2086, etc.)., • Regulatory Translation: Monitor French and EU tax developments and translate them into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria that the engineering team can build against., • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work daily with Engineering, Design, Legal, and Compliance to prioritise, spec, and deliver features on time. You're the connective tissue between "what the law says" and "what the user sees.", • User Research & Testing: Talk to users, run beta tests, and iterate. Ensure the tax experience is not only legally accurate but genuinely intuitive., • Strategic Partnerships: Identify and evaluate partnerships with tax-filing platforms, accounting software providers, or institutional tax advisors to extend the product's reach and credibility., • Competitive salary + stock options, • Private dental + health insurance, • The best tech for your job, • 30 days of paid holidays (excl. bank holidays), • Option to work 100% remotely or come to the office - your choice!, • Ability to work abroad for 4 months a year

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. 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! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ _ ✨ 📍London or Remote UK | 💰£93,500 - £126,500 (based on experience level) + stock options + benefits ⭐Our Legal team We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel - Employment, Incentives & Pensions to join our team at Monzo and help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. This role will have day-to-day responsibility for advising on employment, incentives and pensions (EIP) related matters in a regulated bank environment. This role will report to Monzo’s Director of Legal - EIP and is part of the Group Centre EIP team in the Legal & Board Governance Collective at Monzo, which supports Monzo Group and its operating entities globally. In this role, you will work at all levels in the organisation and in close partnership with our People, Reward, Risk & Compliance and Finance teams, as well as in collaboration with senior Legal team stakeholders as the business develops into a matrix organisation. You’ll lead on a wide range of EIP related legal matters with opportunities for growth in role as the business scales in the UK and internationally. 🔑You’ll play a key role by... • Providing strategic employment legal advice and commercial solutions on EIP matters impacting the Monzo Group as a whole, as well as its subsidiary legal entities. Work closely and collaboratively with Monzo’s Director of Legal EIP and the other Senior Legal Counsel EIP lawyer, as well as with the broader Group Centre Legal team plus local entity GCs and their teams., • Being a trusted adviser and partner to the People team, including in developing policies, procedures, guidance and templates relevant for a range of EIP legal matters., • Providing EIP advisory legal support to the business as required across the entire employee life cycle - from hiring (including executive service contracts), people processes and departures., • Managing any contentious EIP legal matters in conjunction with external counsel., • Working with Monzo’s Reward team on compensation arrangements and remuneration policies and practices in a bank regulatory compensation framework., • Providing legal support to the corporate and commercial legal functions, including on TUPE., • Supporting international projects and matters in the EU and US as the business continues to scale., • Working proactively and collaboratively with members of the wider Legal, People, Reward, Tax, Risk & Compliance, & Finance Collectives on a variety of EIP related matters., • Developing and implement internal frameworks, processes and procedures to increase the efficiency and scalability of EIP legal advice across the Monzo Group and its subsidiary entities., • Delivering training, share insights from your work, and help educate others on EIP matters., • Managing relationships with our external legal counsel and work with others in the Collective to ensure we are optimising our legal spend on EIP matters and obtaining best value. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… • You are an experienced, commercial and pragmatic employment lawyer, with at least 6 years + PQE or equivalent experience., • You have an excellent technical grounding in all aspects of employment law, having spent time in private practice, and ideally time in house at a bank and/or other financial institution., • You have experience advising on employment-related regulatory issues which arise in financial services, such as SMCR and FCA Code of Conduct and wider Remuneration Code matters., • You have experience of advising on incentive structures including share options, plus an awareness of workplace defined contribution pension arrangements., • 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 EIP related 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 up to the Executive 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 are always looking for new ways to improve the efficiency and scalability of legal processes and systems., • You have a dynamic and entrepreneurial approach and are comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced and rapidly-evolving environment., • You’ve 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! In-house experience in financial services is preferred, but is not essential for the right candidate. PQE is a guide only. 🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps • Recruiter call (potentially followed by an initial call with Director of Legal - EIP), • First stage 1 hour role specific interview, • Second stage 1 hour behavioural interview Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on _. 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. Your compensation package: 💰£93,500 - £126,500 base salary ➕ stock options ✅ 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 ➕And much more, see our full list of benefits _ #LI-DH1 Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2023 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. 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! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ _ ✨ 📍London | 💰 up to £145k + stock options & benefits | _ ✨ ⭐Our Legal team We’re looking for a Principal Legal Counsel - Corporate Legal, to join our team at Monzo and help us build one of the best, most innovative banks in the world. At Monzo, our legal and company secretarial teams work as one united function - the Legal and Board Governance collective. In your role as Principal Legal Counsel - Corporate, you will report directly to Monzo’s Group Head of Corporate Legal and work alongside other lawyers and the board governance team to provide first rate corporate legal advice and support in connection with a variety of corporate transactions and in preparation for Monzo’s future as it scales globally. 🔑You’ll play a key role by… • You’ll work closely and collaboratively with Monzo’s Group Head of Corporate Legal, Monzo’s Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, and the other members of the Group Corporate Legal team to provide strategic corporate law advice and commercial insights and solutions to the Monzo Group as a whole and its subsidiary entities in the following areas:, • General corporate law and corporate governance compliance to support and meet Group private entity and future public entity requirements, • Capital markets and Group disclosure related advice., • Capital Raising including primary and secondary raising advice working closely with the Investor Relations and Group finance function, • Group M&A and corporate development legal advice working closely with Monzo’s group strategy and corporate development team, • Advice to the Reward and Remuneration functions on the corporate and governance implications associated with stock option issuance and other corporate governance aspects of reward., • Advice to the Group Finance function to support the preparation of Monzo Group Consolidated Annual Report & Accounts., • You’ll work proactively with Monzo’s Group Head of Corporate Legal to scale a high performing corporate legal advisory function, deliver a range of exciting and high-profile enterprise-wide corporate transactions, and drive impact and achieve our collective goals., • You’ll work closely in collaboration with Monzo’s Group Head of Corporate Legal and other members of the Group Corporate Legal team to prepare, review and negotiate a broad range of corporate agreements and documents in connection with a variety of corporate activities for the Monzo Group as a whole and its subsidiary entities., • You’ll be a trusted advisor and will work proactively and collaboratively with other relevant stakeholders and teams across the Monzo Group, including the Board Governance, Finance, Tax, Investor Relations, Risk & Compliance, People, Reward, and Operations teams., • You’ll work with Monzo’s Group Head of Corporate Legal, other members of the Group Corporate Legal team and, where relevant, the Risk & Compliance function to lead, evolve and adapt suitable corporate legal processes and procedures, as well as legal and governance risk management policies and frameworks relevant to private and public company status within the enterprise risk framework of the Monzo Group as a whole., • You’ll work with the Legal and Board Governance collective to improve the commercial management of the activities of the Group Corporate 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 budget and 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 and experienced corporate lawyer as well as being a strong communicator and collaborator (min 7 years of post-qualification experience (PQE))., • You have a strong background advising on corporate and corporate governance rules and regulations, and you are skilled at coordinating a broad range of corporate transactions and complex corporate legal matters in the UK, EU, and/or US, within both private and listed company environments., • You are a good 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 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 have excellent interpersonal and team player skills and are experienced in working across a network of cross-functional stakeholders to collaboratively solve problems., • You are a strategic thinker and a keen problem solver, skilled at assessing risk and recommending solutions that balance commercial and risk considerations. You think ahead, anticipate relevant challenges and questions, set clear objectives, and find effective solutions., • You bring energy and presence and excel at building open, trusting relationships across all levels of the organisation, including the Board and C-suite levels, in global or international settings., • You have a dynamic and entrepreneurial approach and are comfortable with the ambiguity of a fast-paced and rapidly-evolving environment., • 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 join us for the next stage of our journey at Monzo! The interview process: Our interview process involves 3 main stages: • Recruiter call, • Initial call, • Full loop: Technical, Behavioural and Leadership Interviews Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on business-hiring@monzo.com What’s in it for you: 💰Up to £145,000 ➕ stock options & benefits ✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK ✅ We can sponsor visas ⏰ 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 _ #LI-DH1 Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2024 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊