Senior Technical Programme Manager at Physicsx

Note: We are currently recruiting for multiple positions across different levels, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals.

The Role

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 Impact

You 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

Operational Efficiency

• 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

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• 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

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