Technical Project Manager - AI

JR United Kingdom; Banbury; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a world-class research and development organization as a Technical Project Manager in Oxford. You'll lead complex AI projects from conception to deployment, collaborating with diverse teams to drive innovation. With a hybrid working model and competitive compensation packages, this is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in sectors like healthcare and sustainability.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Travel expenses covered

Pension contributions

Paid time off

World-class training opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects in AI-focused or tech-driven environments.
• Advanced skills in Jira administration, including configuration and custom workflows.
• Demonstrated success in managing multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery of AI programmes, ensuring clear structure and defined timelines.
• Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Jira administration

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Job description

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Oxford – 2 days onsite (travel fully paid for from London)

A world-class research and development organisation is seeking a skilled Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of high-impact AI projects. Focused on solving global challenges across sectors like healthcare, sustainability, and clean energy, this is a rare opportunity to work on meaningful innovation at scale.

You’ll play a central role in bringing complex AI projects to life – from early scoping through to final deployment – working across interdisciplinary teams including AI Scientists, MLOps, Engineers, and Product.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery of AI programmes, ensuring clear structure, defined timelines and risk mitigation.
• Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, keeping teams aligned and moving forward.
• Design, implement and manage Jira workflows, dashboards, and custom automations – including tool integrations such as Jira-to-Slack.
• Produce real-time dashboards and reporting tools for project tracking, stakeholder visibility, and executive decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to maintain strong alignment across teams.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects in AI-focused or tech-driven environments.
• Advanced skills in Jira administration, including configuration, custom workflows, dashboards and reporting.
• Demonstrated success in managing multi-disciplinary teams and balancing competing priorities under pressure.
• Clear understanding of AI development cycles and familiarity with data, ML, or engineering workflows.
• Experience working within fast-paced, agile environments – ideally in start-ups or scale-ups.
• Domain experience in healthcare, energy, or sustainability is highly advantageous.

This role is based in Oxford with a hybrid working model.

Salaries are base + bonus, they pay extremely well & discuss packages on a case-by-case basis (they are not confined to typical UK wage structures).

They also pay for private medical insurance, travel, pension, PTO, world clas training by the top trainers in the world.

Please apply for immediate consideration!