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Technical Project Manager
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This Technical Project Manager role offers the opportunity to sit at the centre of a growing deep-tech business developing advanced optical and semiconductor-based systems. You’ll work closely with technical leadership, engineering teams and external partners to keep complex R&D programmes aligned, structured and moving forward. It’s a role suited to someone who enjoys bringing clarity to technically challenging environments without overcomplicating processes.
Our client is a VC-backed hardware startup developing next-generation optical systems for high-precision manufacturing applications. With active grant-funded programmes, external foundry partnerships and ambitious growth plans, they are looking for someone who can combine strong programme coordination with enough technical understanding to operate confidently in a complex engineering environment.
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As the Technical Project Manager, you’ll oversee programme planning, grant delivery, partner coordination and reporting across multiple workstreams, acting as a key operational link across the business.
Responsibilities Include
- Managing complex R&D programmes across engineering teams and external partners.
- Maintaining project plans, milestones, RAID logs and delivery schedules.
- Supporting grant-funded programme reporting, monitoring meetings and compliance requirements.
- Coordinating relationships with foundries, commercial partners and research organisations.
- Supporting investor and leadership reporting with clear programme updates.
- Managing dependencies, risks and changing priorities within a fast-moving startup environment.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience managing technically complex hardware or deep-tech projects.
- Background working within VC-backed startups, scale-ups or advanced R&D environments.
- Familiarity with grant-funded programmes and structured reporting processes.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and commercial teams.
- Understanding of semiconductor, photonics or foundry-driven development environments is advantageous.
- Formal project management qualification such as PRINCE2 or similar.
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You’ll join at a genuinely exciting stage of growth, with the opportunity to help shape how programmes are delivered within a highly technical business. The role offers strong visibility, meaningful ownership, equity participation and the chance to work alongside a small but ambitious engineering team solving complex real-world problems.
If you are interested in the Technical Project Manager position, please contact Emily Wright.
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