Technical Product Manager - Schedule Studio (FA81DBA)

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking a senior planner to lead an AI-driven scheduling initiative for complex infrastructure projects in London. You will review generated programmes, identify issues, and drive product improvements with a small squad.

Your role includes quarterly planning, trade-off decisions, and building tooling and AI agents. The ideal candidate has 5+ years as a planner on major projects, deep Primavera P6 expertise, and a clear stance on schedule quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a planner or scheduler on major construction or infrastructure projects.
• Fluency in Primavera P6; knowledge of Asta/MSP/TILOS is a bonus.
• Ability to defend schedules and argue about float with clients.
• Experience building planning tooling or AI-driven automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Be the planner in the room — review generated programmes and translate issues into product improvements.
• Own the squad's quarter: plan, reconcile unplanned work, and deliver with authority to trade-off.
• Write clear specs, prompt agents, and review generated output rather than handing over.
• Design and ship planning agents, defining their scope and the planner's loop.
• Run structured evaluations to quantify schedule quality and justify changes.
• Conduct user and buyer research with planning managers and programme directors.
• Lead contributors and coordinate dependencies across squads.

Skills

Planner/Scheduler

AI-driven scheduling

Judgment under trade-offs

Clear communication

Education

Formal technical background

Tools

Primavera P6

Asta

MSP

TILOS

Job description

Referment is working with a London-based company whose AI platform forecasts delay and cost risk on some of the world's most important infrastructure, trained on one of the largest datasets of construction schedules in existence. Its generative AI scheduling product is an AI-native way to author construction schedules, and it's hiring a planner to lead it.

This is a product role, but the company isn't asking for a career product manager. It's asking for someone who has built and defended real schedules on real projects, who has strong opinions about what a good programme looks like and what a bad one hides, and who's ready to put that judgment into a product. Product experience is a plus; the product craft can be taught, years of planning can't.

You’ll lead a small squad of two to three people. There's no design-and-handover — you'll plan the squad's quarter, make trade-offs, and build: prototyping with AI tools, directing agents, and reviewing generated code and generated schedules.

The Role

• Be the planner in the room — review generated programmes as you would a contractor's submission, find what's wrong, and turn that into product and model improvements.
• Own the squad's quarter: plan it, reconcile it against unplanned work, and deliver it, with genuine authority to make trade-offs.
• Build, not just brief: write clear specs, prompt agents, and review and edit generated output rather than handing over.
• Design and ship planning agents — what they should do, what they must never do, and where the planner stays in the loop.
• Run structured evaluations, defining what a good schedule looks like in measurable terms and proving every change against it.
• Run user and buyer research with planning managers, project controls leads and programme directors.
• Lead contributors, not a process, coordinating dependencies across squads.

What We're Looking For

• Five-plus years as a planner or scheduler on major construction or infrastructure projects — building, maintaining and defending programmes that were contractually and commercially live.
• Deep fluency in Primavera P6 (Asta, MSP or TILOS a bonus): logic, calendars, constraints, baselines, WBS and coding structures.
• A clear point of view on schedule quality, and the experience of arguing about float and holding your ground.
• You already build with AI daily, and want to go further — to prototypes and working code you review and edit.
• Judgment over process: you can cut to what planners and their clients actually need and make the right call through understanding trade-offs.
• Fluent with data, and excited by defining schedule quality in a way that can be measured at scale.
• Sharp communication with engineers, planning managers and programme directors alike.

Nice to Have

• Product experience of any kind, or experience building planning tooling or automation for a team.
• Experience with data science, machine learning or probabilistic risk analysis (QSRA/QCRA).
• Experience across client and contractor sides or multiple sectors (rail, energy, nuclear, water, buildings, oil and gas).
• Knowledge of contract programme requirements under NEC, JCT or FIDIC.
• A formal technical background.

This could suit an experienced planner who wants to shape the tool rather than one project, or a scheduler who has already started building their own automation.

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