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 ImpactYou 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 and 🚆 Season 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…
Skills Required
- Significant experience in delivery, programme, or technical operations within a product engineering organisation
- Proven ability to hold wide context across multiple teams and workstreams simultaneously
- Strong understanding of a modern SDLC, including CI/CD
- Comfortable operating in Linear, Notion, and Slack as primary working tools
- Clear, direct communication style and ability to enforce process discipline
- Sufficient technical fluency to understand and triage software engineering issues
- Experience running or supporting governance or steering forums with senior stakeholders
- Comfort closing ambiguity and driving decisions to resolution
- Based in London and able to be in the office at least four days per week
- Occasional travel to other company locations may be required
What We Do
PhysicsX is a deep-tech company of scientists and engineers, developing machine learning applications to accelerate physics simulations and enable a new frontier of optimization opportunities in design and engineering. Born out of numerical physics, we help our customers radically improve their concepts and designs, transform their engineering processes and drive operational product performance. We do this in some of the most advanced and important industries of our time – including Space, Aerospace, Medical Devices, Additive Manufacturing, Electric Vehicles, Motorsport, and Renewables. Our work creates positive impact for society, be it by improving the design of artificial hearts, reducing CO2 emissions from aircraft and road vehicles, and increasing the performance of wind turbines. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals. We do not currently offer work experience
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