Technical Project Manager

Ascent Software; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Technical Project Manager, where you'll bridge the gap between technical teams and clients. Your role will focus on delivering cloud-native solutions while ensuring customer satisfaction. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous improvement, you'll navigate complexities to drive project success. This innovative firm values flexibility and well-being, offering a vibrant work environment that supports professional growth and fosters a sense of belonging. If you're passionate about technology and customer success, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Well Being Coaches

Professional Development Support

Inclusive Workplace

Health and Wellness Benefits

Qualifications

• Proven ability to understand and align with customer goals.
• Experience in consultative environments with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills to simplify technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to translate needs into actionable plans.
• Lead Agile teams in delivering innovative software products.
• Facilitate effective communication between teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Agile Project Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Data-Driven Solutions

Stakeholder Engagement

Interpersonal Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

It’s one thing to deliver a technical project. It’s quite another to delight a customer while doing it.

About Us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our central offices in Bristol and London. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office.

About the role

We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager who thrives in a consultative environment. You’ll act as the bridge between technical teams and customers, ensuring solutions are not just delivered but truly solve customer challenges. This is more than project management—it’s about building trust, fostering collaboration, and delivering with excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to deeply understand their needs, translating challenges into actionable plans for technical teams.
• Lead Agile teams in delivering cloud-native, data-driven solutions and innovative software products.
• Proactively identify and address challenges, dependencies, and risks, ensuring smooth delivery and alignment with customer goals.
• Facilitate clear, effective communication between technical teams, stakeholders, and customers, ensuring transparency and shared understanding.
• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with customers, acting as their advocate throughout the project lifecycle.
• Champion continuous improvement and adaptability, encouraging teams to refine and optimize processes.
• Deliver Ascent Accelerators and platforms, empowering customers to achieve faster time-to-value.

What You’ll Bring

At Ascent, we believe in finding the right people with the right mindset. Here’s what we value:

It’s one thing to deliver a technical project. It’s quite another to delight a customer while doing it.

About Us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our central offices in Bristol and London. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office.

About the role

We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager who thrives in a consultative environment. You’ll act as the bridge between technical teams and customers, ensuring solutions are not just delivered but truly solve customer challenges. This is more than project management—it’s about building trust, fostering collaboration, and delivering with excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to deeply understand their needs, translating challenges into actionable plans for technical teams.
• Lead Agile teams in delivering cloud-native, data-driven solutions and innovative software products.
• Proactively identify and address challenges, dependencies, and risks, ensuring smooth delivery and alignment with customer goals.
• Facilitate clear, effective communication between technical teams, stakeholders, and customers, ensuring transparency and shared understanding.
• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with customers, acting as their advocate throughout the project lifecycle.
• Champion continuous improvement and adaptability, encouraging teams to refine and optimize processes.
• Deliver Ascent Accelerators and platforms, empowering customers to achieve faster time-to-value.

What You’ll Bring

At Ascent, we believe in finding the right people with the right mindset. Here’s what we value:

• A proven ability to understand and align with customer goals, ensuring technical solutions meet their strategic objectives.
• Experience working collaboratively in consultative environments, engaging with a range of stakeholders to define requirements and refine deliverables.
• A results-driven approach with a passion for helping customers achieve measurable success.
• An innate ability to navigate complexity, removing obstacles and creating clarity.
• An adaptable and positive attitude, with a desire to drive progress even in uncertain or evolving contexts.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, modern development practices, and data-driven projects.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a talent for simplifying technical concepts and aligning diverse perspectives.
• A track record of working on software development, data engineering, or analytics-focused initiatives.
• Commercial awareness, ensuring project deliverables align with both customer value and business objectives.

Working with Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we’ll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employee. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on [e-mail].

For more details about life at Ascent, check out our Life Page here .

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