Senior Technical Programme Manager

AI Startups UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Pension (10%)

Free lunches

Parental leave

Nursery scheme

Annual leave 25 days

Medical insurance

Wellbeing subscriptions

Eye tests

Personal development

EAP

Bike2Work

Season ticket loan

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

PhysicsX in London seeks a Senior Technical Programme Manager to own the operational heartbeat of the product organisation, ensuring work moves from strategic intent to shipped product and that nothing falls between teams. You will work with Product Managers, Group Engineering Leads and Delivery teams to maintain sprint cadence, align roadmaps and manage cross‑team dependencies, while taming ambiguity.

This role is based in London with four days in the office per week and includes equity options

Qualifications

• Significant delivery/PM/tech-ops experience within a product engineering org.
• Ability to hold context across multiple teams and workstreams without losing critical details.
• Strong understanding of a modern SDLC including CI/CD.
• Clear, direct communication style with process discipline.
• Sufficient technical fluency to understand engineering problems and route them.
• Experience running governance forums with senior stakeholders.
• Low tolerance for unresolved ambiguity and a bias to close issues.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sprint governance and quarterly roadmap cycles across teams.
• Maintain cadence discipline and reflect decisions in project tools.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives and dependencies to ensure outcomes.
• Ensure inbound triage and communication loops stay healthy and timely.

Skills

Delivery/PM experience

Cross-functional coordination

SDLC knowledge

Communication skills

Technical fluency

Governance experience

Ambiguity management

Tools

Linear

Notion

Slack

Job description

About us

PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software.

We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries. By enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle, PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations — empowering engineers to push the boundaries of possibility. Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive.

Note:We are currently recruiting for multiple positions across different levels, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals.

The Role

As a Senior Technical Programme Manager, you will own the operational heartbeat of the PhysicsX product organisation, ensuring that work moves clearly from strategic intent to shipped product, and that nothing falls between teams.

You will work alongside a set of Product Managers, Group Engineering Leads, and Delivery engineering teams who will rely on you to keep the machine running, by owning:

• Efficient product processes that govern how we plan and execute across the organisation
• Ensuring compliance with team-level processes in the individual teams
• Cross-team programmes and rituals that keep the organisation moving as one.

It is a role for someone with genuine delivery instincts who understands how complex enterprise software gets built, thrives in taming ambiguity, and can create clarity without creating bureaucracy.

Your Impact

You will make a complex, multi-team product organisation significantly easier to navigate - for the teams inside it, and for the customers and stakeholders who depend on it.

You will own the rhythm of our sprints across the Product organisation, ensuring the backlog and roadmap are up to accurate, informative and aligned with our strategy. You will also ensure the issue and feature signals that come in from across the business and from customers, reach the right team, in the right shape, at the right time and are actioned appropriately.

Sprint Governance

• Run the end-to-end logistics of our quarterly roadmap cycle and fortnightly sprints across teams, ensuring we operate as one joined-up function.
• Maintain the cadence discipline - chasing Linear status updates from PMs before each session, ensuring approved decisions are reflected in Linear immediately after.
• Actively manage the health of cross-functional initiatives across our five product teams; Maintain cross-team dependency visibility - identifying managing work to ensure successful overall outcome..
• Ensure the inbound triage queue is moving and that the communication loop back is healthy and the

Operational Efficiency

• Keep Linear as the single source of truth - validate that ticket hygiene standards are being met (estimates, labels, project assignment, status accuracy) ahead of each planning cycle
• Identify where friction is slowing delivery of our platform and develop and introduce appropriate processes
• Identify and develop agentic automation opportunities to reduce process demand on the teams.
• Maintain the operational documentation that keeps the product organisation oriented: ways of working, escalation paths, decision logs
• Track throughput and load metrics over time and use them to inform quarterly capacity planning discussions

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in a delivery, programme, or technical operations role inside a product engineering organisation — you understand how software gets built and what causes it to slow down
• Demonstrated ability to hold a wide context across multiple teams and workstreams simultaneously without losing track of the details that matter
• Strong understanding of a modern SDLC, including CI/CD.
• Comfortable operating in Linear, Notion, and Slack as your primary working environment
• A clear, direct communication style - able to hold the line on process discipline and make deviations visible, and simplify without losing accuracy.
• Enough technical fluency to understand what an software engineering problem is describing and route it sensibly — you do not need to be an engineer, but you need to speak the language
• Experience running or supporting a governance or steering forum with senior stakeholders
• Low tolerance for unresolved ambiguity - you find it uncomfortable and your instinct is to close it down, not work around it

Additional Considerations

• This role is based in our London office, with an expectation of being in the office at least four days per week
• Occasional travel to other PhysicsX locations may be required

What we offer

Build what actually matters

Help shape an AI-native engineering company at a formative stage, tackling problems that genuinely matter for industry and society. This is work with real-world impact - and something you can be proud to stand behind.

Learn alongside exceptional people

Work with a high-caliber, collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and operators who care deeply about doing great work, and about helping each other get better. We come from diverse backgrounds, but we share a commitment to operating at the highest level and addressing some of the most complex challenges out there. If you’re ambitious, thoughtful, and driven by impact, you’ll feel at home.

Influence over hierarchy

We operate with a flat structure: good ideas win- wherever they come from. Questioning assumptions and challenging the status quo isn’t just welcomed, it’s expected.

Sustainable pace, long-term ambition

Building meaningful technology is a marathon, not a sprint. We believe in balancing focused, ambitious work with a life beyond it. Our hybrid model blends time together in our Shoreditch office with work-from-home days, giving you the flexibility to work sustainably while staying connected in person.

And it doesn’t stop there …

• Equity options- share meaningfully in the company you’re helping to build.
• 10% employer pension contribution- because investing in future matters.
• Free office lunches- to keep you energised and focused.
• Enhanced parental leave- 3 months full pay paternity and 6 months full pay maternity leave, to provide extra flexibility during the moments that matter most.
• YellowNest nursery scheme- to help working parents manage childcare costs.
• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)- because taking time to rest matters.
• Private medical insurance- 100% employee cover, giving you complete peace of mind.
• Wellhub Subscription- gain access to thousands of gyms, classes and wellness apps, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing.
• Eye tests- because good work depends on good health.
• Personal development- dedicated support for learning, development, and leveling up over time.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- confidential wellbeing support, available whenever you need it.
• Bike2Work scheme andSeason ticket loan- to make getting to work easier and greener.
• Octopus EV salary sacrifice- for a simpler, more sustainable way to drive electric.

Watch this space, we’re continuing to build this as we grow…

We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.

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