Technical Project Manager

Airbox Systems Limited; Wantage; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology organization in Wantage seeks a skilled Technical Project Manager to drive the successful delivery of software projects. This role involves roadmap management, project coordination, and cross-department collaboration, demanding a strong grasp of Agile methodologies. Candidates should have 3+ years in project management, along with excellent communication skills. The organization promotes a flexible working environment, enhancing team dynamics and project transparency.

Benefits

26 days holiday per year

Private medical cover with Bupa

Pension scheme with up to 6% matching contribution

Up to 20 Nomad Working Days

Electric Car Scheme

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in technical project management, better in software or SaaS environments.
• Proven experience managing multiple complex software projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the product and technical roadmaps.
• Coordinate planning and delivery of individual software projects.
• Support Agile ceremonies and ensure delivery practices.

Skills

Technical project management

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

Why Airbox? You're more likely to love your work when that work has a purpose, when it's meaningful and when it's protecting lives. And, at Airbox Systems, it will. Here's why.

We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better place, our friendly team includes individuals with backgrounds in military, aviation, and law enforcement. Our experience brings first‑hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting‑edge concepts for improving the service that we deliver.

At Airbox, our values can be described as behavioral guidance. They are the principles and beliefs that provide a cohesive vision and define who we are as a business. In doing so, they define our organisation internally, and externally with our stakeholders and customers. In essence, they are our “true north” that help us to navigate our organisation through prosperous times as well as uncertain periods. Our company beliefs and values are embodied in our culture. Whilst we celebrate the diversity of the people we work with, there are certain values and attributes all of us share – whatever your background, these are the qualities we are looking for in the people we hire: Commitment, Positive Realism, Ethics, Accountability, Humanity, Quality, and Delight.

What this role is about:

We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our growing team and play a critical role in driving the successful delivery of software projects across the organisation. You’ll be responsible for maintaining a clear, up‑to‑date view of the delivery roadmap, ensuring alignment between Product, Engineering, and other business functions. Your job is to challenge assumptions, coordinate across teams, and ensure transparency and accountability across the board.

This is not just a delivery tracking role, we’re looking for someone who can proactively identify risks, question unrealistic deadlines, and help keep everyone honest about progress and capacity. You’ll need a strong understanding of software development processes (especially Agile), and the communication skills to work with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing:

• Roadmap Management: Own and maintain the product and technical roadmaps, ensuring they are accurate, aligned with business priorities, and reflect current progress and resource availability.
• Project Coordination: Coordinate planning and delivery of individual software projects and cross‑functional initiatives. Ensure dependencies are understood, tracked, and managed.
• Agile Delivery Oversight: Support Agile ceremonies by working closely with Engineering and Product teams to ensure consistent, efficient delivery practices.
• Resourcing & Capacity Planning: Work with team leads to monitor resource allocation across projects. Challenge and validate timelines based on capacity, complexity, and competing priorities.
• Cross‑Department Collaboration: Act as a bridge between Product, Engineering, and the wider organization including Marketing, Sales, and Operations to surface constraints, unblock progress, and communicate realistic timelines.
• Transparency & Reporting: Maintain up‑to‑date, visual documentation (roadmaps, resourcing plans, timelines, risks, dependencies) that gives all stakeholders a clear, honest view of project status.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement improvements in planning and execution processes, tooling, and communication flows across teams.

About You:

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 3–5+ years of experience in technical project management, ideally within software or SaaS environments
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and ceremonies
• Proven experience managing multiple complex software projects simultaneously
• Comfortable managing project portfolios across distributed, cross‑functional teams
• Strong capability in tools like Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar
• Familiarity with roadmap tools and project visualisation/reporting tools
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. you’re not afraid to challenge assumptions and ask the tough questions
• Technical literacy: able to understand technical discussions and translate between business and technical perspectives
• Ability to challenge people constructively in an assertive & diplomatic fashion, ask tough questions, and hold teams accountable while maintaining positive working relationships.

Preferred Skills:

• Background in software development, QA, or systems engineering
• Experience working in a scaling organization or startup environment
• Experience with OKRs or other goal‑tracking frameworks

What we offer:

• The chance to work with a passionate team that’s working together everyday towards our shared big ambitious goal
• A dynamic, flexible and fun scale‑up work environment with a highly talented team
• 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays
• Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues, as well as a Wellbeing Allowance each year
• Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution
• Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum
• Electric Car Scheme

Flexible & Hybrid Working:

We said you'll get freedom to work in a way that is best for you, and that extends to being in the office – or not.

Work better from home? No worries. Prefer the office? Come on down. We have 2 mandatory Townhall days; Spring and Autumn, where the whole business gets together. When you visit the office you won’t just find rows and rows of desks. No, you’ll find our colleagues meeting on the walking pads, having planning sessions over a game of tennis table or grabbing a bean bag in our ‘Quality’ collaborative space - that’s right we live our values so much, we named our meeting spaces after them.

You can also shape work around your life at Airbox Systems; most colleagues work our core hours of 9am‑5pm with others flexibly between 7am‑7pm. Whether you're fitting in a spin class or the school run, you'll have the flexibility for whatever matters most. All we ask in return is that you produce great work, but when you’re working with passionate people, that part comes naturally.

Connect with us

Interested in the role, or Airbox in general, but you don’t meet 100% of the requirements? We’d love to hear from you! We encourage you to connect with us here; we’d be excited to see if your unique skill set and experience could be a match for future roles.

A note for Recruitment Agencies:

Agencies, we appreciate you… but unsolicited CV’s will not be reviewed. We will only accept CV submissions for roles briefed to you by us. Please don’t keep pulling the attention of our Support team from our customers.

If you would be interested in working with us – please send a message to [e-mail], should we have anything we need additional support on we will reach out to you.