Associate Principal Technical Programme Manager

Role overview

Location and work arrangement

• The role is based in London and is hybrid: three days per week in the London office and two days working from home.

Employment and duration

• The role is full time and offered on a one-year fixed-term contract.

Programme delivery and governance

• Manage programme delivery, dependencies, stakeholder alignment, and delivery structures across a complex organisation.
• Define and communicate programme objectives, roles, and responsibilities; establish governance, communication structures, monitoring, and best practices.
• Lead governance meetings, manage expectations, and communicate programme status for stakeholder decision-making.
• Work with product and engineering stakeholders to prioritise roadmaps and define KPIs for project impact.

Planning, execution, and risk

• Develop outcome-driven strategy and execution plans with clear ownership.
• Apply Agile delivery practices across concurrent workstreams and provide transparency, dependency management, and short- and long-term planning.
• Remove blockers and impediments, identify constraints and risks, and coordinate mitigation.
• Timebox milestones and decisions, challenging plans to maximise value delivery.

Experience and skills

• Requires strong project management experience in an agile environment and a relevant certification.
• Requires knowledge of Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them at scale.
• Requires a strong technology background and full software delivery lifecycle experience.
• Requires experience managing cross-departmental dependencies in complex programmes and working with executive-level stakeholders.
• Requires strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and data-analysis skills, including knowledge of growth performance metrics.
• Requires experience with work management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Seeks an organised, collaborative, inclusive professional able to manage multiple concurrent projects, delegate, and give and receive feedback.

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