Technical Project Manager
Habitat Energy is a fast growing technology company focussed on the trading and algorithmic optimisation of energy storage and renewable assets around the world. Our mission is to deliver outstanding returns to our clients to increase the attractiveness of renewable energy globally and support the transition to a clean energy future. Our rapidly growing team of 100+ people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.
We have a vacancy for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our team in Oxford. This role will support project delivery for our UK Tech team and help coordinate day to day execution across our Australia based teams. You’ll report to the Global TPM and partner closely with Product Managers and Technical Leads to ensure projects are well scoped, prioritised, and delivered to quality expectations. This is a great fit for someone with 5+ years experience in technical project management (or equivalent) whose comfortable balancing structure with lightweight, low friction delivery processes. You’ll have the opportunity to work across global teams, influence delivery practices, and contribute to a high impact portfolio of work.
You’ll play a key role in:
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams across the UK and Australia to drive delivery of technical and product initiatives
- Supporting project initiation activities such as planning, requirements gathering, and scope definition
- Facilitating agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
- Tracking progress across teams, managing risks and blockers, and ensuring clear visibility of project status via tools like JIRA
- Coordinating testing and release planning, ensuring smooth and timely deployments
- Helping teams continuously improve delivery workflows and cross-team communication
- Providing leadership with structured, actionable updates on project health and delivery risks
You will be responsible for:
- Work independently while coordinating with the Global TPM to ensure alignment on delivery frameworks, proactively share project-level updates, and keep project tracking (e.g. JIRA) consistently up to date to maintain visibility across time zones. Bring forward solutions or recommendations to improve execution and delivery practices.
- Ensure projects are effectively planned, tracked, and executed in a low-friction manner
- Maintain alignment between Product and Tech teams to achieve successful product outcomes.
- Provide senior leadership with clear project visibility through structured reporting.
- Work with tech managers to ensure sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and progress tracking are in place across Tech teams.
- Promote transparent communication across teams, ensuring that expectations, dependencies, and risks are well understood.
- Increase adoption of tooling to ensure accurate and transparent project tracking.
- Proactively identify risks and define action plans with Tech managers to keep projects on track.
- Work closely with Product to ensure that they define clear, actionable, and well-prioritised PRDs.
- Ensure that solution designs outline technical approach, align with business objectives, and minimise risk.
Preferred skills and experience:
- Expertise with IT project and workflow management tools, in particular effectively utilising JIRA.
- Proficient in both traditional and agile delivery approaches, with hands-on experience in upfront planning as well as agile frameworks like SCRUM and Kanban.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to track and report on project performance.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- A pragmatic approach to process implementation - focusing on impact over bureaucracy.
- Experience leading technical project management in a global, multi-region organization.
- Experience maturing existing project management practices and educating managers.
- Experience expertly managing stakeholders and balancing the needs of Product, Tech, and senior leadership.
- Experience managing technical projects end-to-end from collaboration with Product on PRDs to tech delivery.
- Experience working with software development and data science teams, preferably coming from a technical background yourself.
- Evidence of strong leadership, able to bring about change and collate the information needed to inform stakeholders and highlight issues.
- Experience working in energy, or related industries.
‘Nice to have’ skills and experience:
- Knowledge of power markets or the renewable energy sector.
- Project Management certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM
Ultimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.
In return, we’ll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with at least 2 days in our office in Oxford.
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