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Who are PurpleSector?
Born in the white heat of Formula 1™, PurpleSector is an engineering-led, data-driven consultancy that solves complex, high-value challenges.
With a team of engineers and data scientists, we use race-derived tools, technologies, and techniques to uncover critical insights, prototype and validate solutions, and embed lasting performance improvements. Our mission is to decode complexity, unlock efficiency, and deliver measurable results at race pace - turning challenges into performance gains in weeks, not months.
Location: Thursley, Surrey (Hybrid)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full time
Reporting to: Delivery Lead
Role Overview
We organise around customer-facing teams - small, multidisciplinary teams that solve real problems and deliver measurable outcomes.
Each Team Lead owns a defined but evolving area of our technical offering, combining:
- Technical capability
- Customer / market application
You are accountable for:
- Delivering projects for customers
- Building and leading a high-performing team
- Growing your domain through opportunity identification and expansion
- Shaping repeatable, commercially valuable approaches
These domains evolve as we:
- Apply existing technologies in new contexts
- Expand into new markets
- Develop new capabilities
You own outcomes within a domain - and how that domain grows over time
What you’ll do
LEAD CUSTOMER DELIVERY
- Own delivery of projects end-to-end (scope, plan, execution, outcomes)
- Work directly with customers to define problems and shape solutions
- Lead proposals, estimates, and delivery planning
- Manage risks, dependencies, and commercial performance
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability
Accountable for delivering value, not just completing work
MANAGE AND DEVELOP A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM
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- Line manage a team of up to ~7 people across disciplines
- Run 1:1s, support development, and manage performance
- Build a high-trust, high-performance team environment
- Balance delivery, development, and utilisation
You build teams that deliver and improve over time
DRIVE GROWTH WITHIN YOUR DOMAIN
- Identify and develop opportunities within customer engagements
- Expand successful work across client organisations (additional sites, teams, or use cases)
- Act as a clear point of contact for Business Development within your domain
- Contribute to proposals and commercial development
- Contribute to improving delivery efficiency over time
You turn delivery into sustained growth
OWN PRODUCT THINKING WITHIN YOUR DOMAIN
- Take responsibility for a defined but evolving area of our technical offering
- Combine technical capability with real-world application to create value
- Identify where delivery work can become repeatable, scalable approaches
- Shape these into reusable plays, methods, and assets
- Assess commercial viability - not just technical interest
- Collaborate with other teams where capabilities overlap or extend (shared technologies or new market applications)
You own product thinking within your domain — grounded in delivery
This is asset-backed consulting, not standalone software products
Domains evolve through delivery, collaboration, and opportunity
WORK WITH TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
- Partner with Chief Engineers on solution architecture
- Work with Technical Community Leads on standards, skills, and capability
- Ensure delivery aligns with best practice and evolving capability
You orchestrate technical excellence - you don’t carry it alone
How We Work
- Fast iteration and real-world testing over perfect plans
- Pragmatic decisions over heavy process
- High-trust, high-autonomy teams
- Continuous improvement in how we deliver
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We favour speed, learning, and decentralised decision-making over rigid ownership boundaries
AI Mindset
- AI is part of how we deliver - not a separate activity
- You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day work
- You look for ways AI can improve delivery and customer outcomes
- You are curious about how AI changes how work is done
If you are not actively engaging with AI, this role is unlikely to be a fit
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience leading customer-facing technical projects
- Degree in a relevant discipline, i.e. Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or qualified by equivalent industry experience
- Experience of working within a consultancy environment is beneficial
- Comfortable working across disciplines (engineering, data, software)
- Experience managing and developing people
- Strong communication - able to simplify complexity
- Commercial awareness and pragmatic decision-making
- Ability to identify and shape opportunities with customers
Why This Role
- Lead real, high-impact work with real customers
- Own and grow a meaningful domain within the business
- Combine delivery, leadership, and product thinking
- Help shape how we scale AI-enabled consulting
This Role May Not Be for You If
- You prefer narrow, clearly defined roles
- You want to focus only on delivery or only on people
- You are uncomfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration
- You are not interested in AI as part of how work gets done
Role Shape
Typically
- 50-60% delivery leadership
- 20-30% people leadership
- 10-20% domain growth and product thinking
Employee Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Healthcare
- Income Protection
- Employee Assistance Scheme
- Up to 10% discretionary annual bonus
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