• Data-driven course correction. Use data to flag delivery risks early, facilitate tough scope and resourcing conversations with Product and Tech Leads, and act as the primary escalation point to resolve cross-team friction.

• Lean process leadership. Partner with Engineering leadership to continuously refine our agile delivery processes without adding bureaucracy. Build deep, cross-functional relationships to align disparate teams through influence rather than authority.

• Financial and operational governance. Own the data pipeline for engineering workloads: repeatable project tracking and a practical approach to categorising engineering spend that supports financial planning, capacity decisions, and future team sizing - without getting lost in the weeds.

• Complex incident coordination. Provide leadership, operational coordination, and stakeholder communications for high-severity, cross-functional incidents.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience at scale. 5+ years as a Programme Manager, TPM, or Agile Delivery Lead managing complex portfolios spanning multiple parallel teams in a fast-paced software environment.

• A well-developed Twinge. You have shipped enough software, with enough teams, that your experience speaks to you when an update is hiding a problem. When a story doesn't stand up to the first three questions, you know there's an issue - and you ask the questions, even when it's uncomfortable.

• Structured, strategic problem solving. You can take vague direction and turn it into concrete outcomes. You break intractably large problems into smaller, orthogonal issues that can be solved in turn, and you can explain your thinking and process clearly enough that others can follow it, challenge it, and build on it.

• Technical literacy. You don't need to write code, but you must hold your own in a room with Tech Leads and Architects. You understand software architecture concepts, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and technical debt.

• Pragmatic delivery kit bag. Deep experience running structured, time-boxed delivery models (e.g. 6- to 12-week cycles, ShapeUp, scaled agile, etc.). We are not looking for a methodology enthusiast: we want someone with a broad kit bag of agile, waterfall, and delivery techniques who draws on whichever fits the problem at hand.

• Data and tooling proficiency. Advanced proficiency with project management tooling (Jira, Linear, Asana, etc.) and a proven ability to build clean, scannable reporting. Financially literate: comfortable owning the data behind delivery tracking, capacity planning, and engineering spend.

• Clear communication. Able to synthesise highly technical detail into concise, impact-focused updates for executive leadership.

What Success Looks Like In 6 Months

• No blind spots. Every stakeholder knows what is on track, what is at risk, and why - without needing to ping individual engineering managers.

• Predictable cycles. Our 8-week cycles achieve a high predictability rate, with scope adjustments happening proactively mid-cycle rather than as a surprise in the final week.

• Trouble is found early. Risks surface because you sniffed them out, not because they materialised. Squads recognise your questions as help, not micromanagement.

• Seamless dependencies. Cross-team dependencies (e.g. Squad A relying on a platform change from Squad B, or an approval from Architecture) are mapped cleanly during planning and tracked explicitly week over week.

• Trusted delivery data. Engineering workload data is captured consistently enough to support team sizing decisions and financial planning.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.